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Descrease article font size Increase article font size The Manitoba government promised new money Wednesday to fight a spike in violence and retail theft that has seen workers in some cases assaulted and injured. The province will fund overtime pay for four police units with the Winnipeg Police Service to …

Descrease article font size Increase article font size The annual rate of inflation cooled to 2.8 per cent in June, marking a milestone in the Bank of Canada’s efforts to fight raging price pressures. Statistics Canada said Tuesday that the slowdown in prices was “broad-based” but attributed most of the …

Canada’s spy service warns that adversaries will turn to espionage and foreign interference tactics to target the country’s increasingly important artificial-intelligence sector. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service says in a newly released analytical brief that countries including China and Russia can be expected to “pursue Canada’s AI through all available …

TORONTO — The Ontario government has failed to meet its target of providing funding for 8,000 children to receive core autism therapies by the end of the fall, though it won’t say by how much. While a spokesperson for the minister of children, community and social services said the province’s …

The Canadian branch of human rights organization Amnesty International says it was the target of a cyberattack it believes was sponsored by the Chinese state. In a statement posted on its website, Amnesty International Canada said the digital security breach was first detected on Oct. 5, 2022, when suspicious activity …

Public instances of threats and intimidation of women in public life have intensified in recent weeks, with significant examples of abuse targeted toward politicians — most recently, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland — as well as activists and journalists. For weeks, a group of journalists, particularly journalists of colour, have publicly shared …

An Ontario man who fled Afghanistan amid the threat of a militant takeover says his life was endangered multiple times because of a licence plate resembling the word ISIS that he never asked for and that the province refused to change until he was nearly killed.  Nouman, 26, came to Canada as a refugee …

In a debate for the 2016 U.S. Republican presidential primaries, organizers went big and gaudy by positioning Ronald Reagan’s old Air Force One jet as a backdrop to the candidates and their lecterns. In a province that no longer has executive aircraft for its leader, United Conservatives offered a low-budget …

The federal government says Canada will still achieve its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions reduction commitments despite Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault offering the oil and gas sector a little more time to hit its targets. “The target date hasn’t changed. Really, the minister was just trying to show flexibility and good will,” said Bruce Cheadle, a …

Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday recommended a change in the design of COVID-19 booster shots this fall in order to combat more recently circulating variants of the coronavirus. The FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted 19-2 that the next wave of COVID …