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[published_date] Hudson's Bay is firing back at one of its biggest lenders. A new court filing from the defunct department store's chief financial officer pushes back on the lender's calls to subject the retailer to more oversight because it allegedly mishandled its liquidation and is hopelessly pursuing a deal to sell 25 of its leases.…

[published_date] A Brampton man accused of defrauding more than a dozen would-be homeowners is now facing additional criminal charges, while a civil lawyer says dozens more alleged victims have recently come forward claiming they were also defrauded.  Moiz Kunwar, 28, is accused of taking deposits for pre-construction homes he was not authorized to sell, which were built…

[published_date] An American helicopter manufacturer has reached a confidential settlement with the families of six Canadian military members killed in a helicopter crash off the coast of Greece five years ago. The families sued Sikorsky in 2023 after a CH-148 Cyclone flown by the Royal Canadian Air Force crashed into the Ionian Sea at full speed in…

[published_date] Chidi Nwagbo says he made a "stupid" decision paying human smugglers to get him into Canada that left him permanently scarred and in the hands of the very U.S. immigration authorities he was trying to flee.     The 57-year-old says he paid $2,000 US in cash to a human smuggling organization in New Jersey to escape the immigration…

[published_date] The senior lead physician of a Saskatchewan Medical Association program that provides help for rural doctors is speaking out on the challenges they face, after a number of temporary rural emergency room closures forced by a shortage of medical professionals in the province.  "We tend to get the feeling that from an emergency perspective ……

[published_date] Police have issued a warrant for the arrest of a teenager suspected in the fatal shooting of Belinda Sarkodie in Hamilton's downtown core. In a news release on Sunday evening, Hamilton said they're looking for Mackale Lavoie, 17. The warrant for his arrest was issued under a second-degree murder charge and two counts of attempted murder. Police…

[published_date] Parts of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) are under an air quality warning on Monday alongside an ongoing heat warning in the region, Environment Canada says.  Smoke from forest fires over northern Ontario is expected to cause poor air quality and reduced visibility, the federal weather agency says.  Poor air quality may continue throughout…

[published_date] B.C. Ferries' announcement that its four new vessels will be built in China has made waves, with the ripple effects reaching all the way to Ottawa.  Canada's transport minister, Chrystia Freeland, has said she's disappointed with the decision and the Conservatives, both federally and in B.C., have gone further, saying the deal should be scrapped…

[published_date] As Alberta's transportation minister prepares to unveil a passenger rail strategy this summer, freedom of information documents obtained by CBC News show that Premier Danielle Smith's husband, David Moretta, was invited to three meetings in 2023 about passenger rail and its potential expansion in the province. Some academics and a former cabinet minister say…

[published_date] When Nathan MacKinnon returned to his old stomping grounds at Cole Harbour Place on Friday to speak to kids attending a hockey camp in his hometown, he received a hero's welcome.  "It was fun and exciting," says 10-year-old camper Rosie Tanner, who plays hockey for the Metro East Inferno during the school year. "He told…

[published_date] Late last year, multiple tenants in small apartment buildings around Halifax got similar letters from their new landlord, stating their leases would soon be terminated. But no reasons were given.  This didn't sit right with Amanda Rose, who has been renting her one-bedroom apartment in the city's north end for almost six years.  "It seemed targeted," Rose…

[published_date] About one-third of Canadians have become obese — with more weight gain happening during the pandemic, according to a new study.  The research, published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) Monday, found that 32.7 per cent of Canadians (10.6 million people) were obese in 2023 — an increase of about eight percentage points…