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Nearly a decade after being shot several times in the Islamic Cultural Centre in the Sainte-Foy neighbourhood of Quebec City, Aymen Derbali is focused on the small wins. He can move his fingers on his right hand, make his own coffee and is now strong enough to grab his laptop. …

This article contains spoilers for the show Heated Rivalry. When snippets of the Canadian series Heated Rivalry started popping up on TikTok at the end of last year, 24-year-old Dima, who works as an engineer in Moscow, was intrigued by the steamy show centred on the romantic relationship between two …

Listen to this article Estimated 4 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Alberta’s governing United Conservatives stayed up into the early pre-dawn hours of Wednesday morning to pass a bill that marks the second, third and fourth time in …

The face of Tehran has been undergoing an extraordinary transformation in recent months, some neighbourhoods seeming to channel Beirut as much as the capital of the Islamic Republic where headscarves — or hijabs — have been mandatory for women for 45 years. Less than three years after the brutal crackdown …

For the last 10 years, Christine Moore has been advocating for her adult son who, she says, struggles with mental illness and addiction, but privacy laws have made it challenging for her to get the information she needs to care for him.  Since her son went missing more than a …

There’s been a lot of chatter about interprovincial trade barriers lately — namely, that Canada should remove them, with federal and provincial officials saying that opening up domestic trade could soften the impact of potential U.S. tariffs. But what are these barriers, and how do they impact our daily lives? Just imagine …

Premier Doug Ford has once again slammed the federal government over bail laws when it comes to repeat offenders. “We need the federal government to change the Criminal Code once and for all, and stop being a bunch of bleeding hearts,” Ford said at an unrelated news conference on Tuesday …

With crime on the rise, many people are wondering how to defend themselves. But the laws around self-defence are complicated. Criminal defence lawyer Linh Pham says self-defence claims have three elements. “The first is the person has to have a reasonable grounds to fear that they’re getting assaulted or that …

TORONTO  — A landmark trial that put Canada’s terrorism laws in the spotlight has culminated in a guilty verdict, but what role terror allegations played in the jury’s decision to convict Nathaniel Veltman in a deadly attack on a Muslim family will remain a mystery. Jurors on Thursday found the …

Workers in Ontario might soon have a better sense of how much they’ll be paid for a role, but experts warn proposed legislation announced this week can have a series of knock-on effects that can both help and hinder employees and employers alike. The Ontario government announced plans Tuesday to …