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[published_date] Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to further crack down on the amount of cheap, foreign steel entering the Canadian market, as the industry continues to be clobbered by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs. Carney made the announcement in Hamilton on Wednesday morning, eliciting a sigh of relief from an industry that has already seen layoffs…

[published_date] More than seven years after a privacy scandal involving Facebook and the Cambridge Analytica consulting firm emerged, an $8-billion US class action investors' lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta board members will begin. The plaintiffs, led by Amalgamated Bank Inc., will argue in court in Wilmington, Del., that the harvesting of data of Facebook users…

[published_date] A planeload of Porter Airlines passengers got an unexpected detour to Regina on Tuesday night, after their plane made an emergency landing.  The Embraer 195 jet had been cruising at 38,000 feet over Montana, en route from Hamilton, Ont., to Vancouver, when the plane suddenly made a steep descent around 7:30 p.m. CST, then diverted to Regina International…

[published_date] A Manitoba woman, who blew the whistle on a case in which Loblaw sold underweight meat across 80 stores in Western Canada, has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against the grocery chain over allegations it consistently overcharges for meat and seafood by including the packaging weight in the final price tag. Plaintiff Iris Griffin's claim,…

[published_date] B.C. billionaire Ruby Liu and her bid to buy up to 25 Hudson's Bay leases was due to come under further scrutiny in court Tuesday — but the battle was waylaid when she showed up with no lawyer or materials to aid in making her case. Judge Peter Osborne adjourned the Tuesday hearing, telling Liu,…

[published_date] A Manitoba woman, who blew the whistle on a case in which Loblaw sold underweighted meat across 80 stores in Western Canada, has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against the grocery chain over allegations it consistently overcharges for meat and seafood by including the packaging weight in the final price tag. Plaintiff Iris Griffin's…

[published_date] Saskatchewan Roughriders fans who headed to Regina's Mosaic stadium Friday had a rough night, sitting through rounds of delays and ultimately the postponement of the game more than three hours after the scheduled kick-off time. While the Riders postponed, other sports in Saskatchewan played on, despite much of the province being blanketed in wildfire smoke…

[published_date] In retrospect, Kenzie Sproat thinks there were warning signs that all was not right in her year-long relationship. She says her partner seemed to shift from a gentleman to someone who controlled and ridiculed her. "I'm kind of ashamed," the 23-year-old university student said. "I totally just listened to him, and then at the…

[published_date] Belinda Sarkodie left Ghana in 2024 to seek refuge in Canada. On Friday, she was killed in Hamilton while she was with a friend and they were waiting for a bus. "That's not fair.... She thought she was safe here," said Evelyn Aidoo. Although not a blood relative, Aidoo was regarded as 26-year-old's aunt — someone Sarkodie considered family…

[published_date] The Federal Court of Appeal heard arguments from a B.C. ostrich farm Tuesday as it sought to protect its herd from a cull ordered due to the avian flu, in a case that has sparked accusations of government overreach from critics in Canada and the U.S. Justice Mary Gleason said the panel of three judges would reserve…

[published_date] Kensington's municipal building has reopened to the public, a day after a resident dropped off old military weapons on Monday evening. Two representatives from the Department of National Defence made a trip to the Island Tuesday morning, staying for less than an hour before removing the two items from the central P.E.I. town's police department and taking them back to 5th…

[published_date] A Toronto man sentenced on Tuesday for his involvement in a $36-million cross-border cocaine and meth operation told Windsor, Ont., court he needed to get arrested as a way out of the criminal activity. Superior Court Justice Paul Howard sentenced Marvin Watson to 16 years in prison, which was a joint submission by the Crown and defence. He's…