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[published_date] A Nova Scotia man has been slapped with a fine worth more than $28,000 after deliberately violating the province's ban on woods travel, a move he says was necessary to challenge the provincial proclamation in court. In an effort to prevent wildfires in the midst of a drought, the Nova Scotia government has imposed a…

[published_date] Hungarian hammer thrower Bence Halász delivered a personal best and meet record before a home crowd to beat Ethan Katzberg, the reigning Canadian Olympic champion, on a hot and humid Tuesday evening in Budapest. Halász, who was second to Katzberg at the Summer Games last August, topped his opponent on the third attempt at…

[published_date] Premier Doug Ford warned Ontario scientists who use cats and dogs in research experiments that he would be "hunting" them down to end such work. Ford said it was unacceptable for beagles to be used in cardiac testing that had been approved by London's Lawson Research Institute and St. Joseph's Health Care London, and promised to introduce…

[published_date] A fourth man has been arrested in connection with what police allege was the illegal entry of 44 people into Canada earlier this month near Stanstead, Que. The RCMP say 34-year-old Tolga Yilmaz was taken into custody Aug. 8 at Montreal's Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport by officers with a joint RCMP–Canada Border Services Agency…

[published_date] Sarnia police allege a Toronto man illegally crossed into the U.S., on the St. Clair River, by renting a Sea-Doo. They says officers were called for a report of a missing man on personal watercraft rental in Sarnia around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday. Upon further investigation, police say the 40-year-old man rented a Sea-Doo on…

[published_date] An incident in western P.E.I. that left 35-year-old man dead has now claimed a second victim: the female passenger from Summerside who was injured when a Toyota Corolla was shot at, rolled over and hit a utility pole on Friday night.  In a news release Tuesday afternoon, P.E.I. RCMP said they were informed the 50-year-old woman involved in the…

[published_date] The union representing Air Canada's flight attendants says it has declined a proposal by the airline to resolve negotiations through arbitration. In an update posted on the bargaining committee's website, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) wrote that Air Canada had proposed referring the matter to binding interest arbitration. That process would bring…

[published_date] The Parti Québécois has won its sixth seat in the National Assembly after winning the Centre-du-Québec riding of Arthabaska in Monday's hotly contested byelection. PQ candidate Alex Boissonneault won 46.29 per cent of the vote, compared to about 35.13 per cent for Éric Duhaime, leader of the Conservative Party of Quebec, who once again fell short of winning a seat in…

[published_date] Jeremy Guenette was sitting in an Idaho parking lot waiting for his kids to finish back-to-school shopping two years ago, when he noticed business was booming at a nearby truck mixing colas, cream and fruity flavours. "For about 45 minutes, I just watched people come and go from the Soda Tsunami. They probably had…

[published_date] This year's wildfire season is already the second-worst on record in Canada, and experts are warning that this might be the new normal.  More than 7.3 million hectares have burned this year so far, more than double the 10-year average for this time of year, according to the latest figures from the Canadian Interagency…

[published_date] Ford Motor Co. will invest nearly $2 billion US retooling a Kentucky factory to produce electric vehicles (EV) that it says will be more affordable, more profitable to build, and will out compete rival models. The automaker's top executive unveiled the new EV strategy at Ford's Louisville Assembly Plant which, after producing gas-powered vehicles…

[published_date] China on Tuesday announced a preliminary anti-dumping duty on Canadian canola imports — a fresh escalation in a yearlong trade dispute that began with Ottawa's imposition of tariffs on Chinese electric vehicle imports last August. The provisional rate will be set at 75.8 per cent, effective from Thursday, the statement said. China is the world's largest importer…