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‘Your suffering doesn’t matter’: Harvard psychologist tackles Jews’ ‘traumatic invalidation’
After the Hamas-led terror attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, Dr. Miri Bar-Halpern, a psychology instructor at Harvard Medical School, wrote on an Israeli Facebook group offering therapy resources to those affected by the attacks. Read More
Letters: Ontario hospital’s killing of puppies and dogs ‘distressing’
Re: Puppies secretly tested and killed at Ontario hospital for human heart research — Jenna Olsen and Robert Cribb, Investigative Journalism Bureau, Aug. 7 Read More
Leslie Roberts: A Jewish man is attacked in front of his daughter, his kippah thrown in a puddle
Montreal — An identifiably Jewish man was walking with his family in a quiet Montreal neighbourhood where a large Hasidic Jewish community makes its home, when he was violently attacked on Friday afternoon. He was repeatedly punched to the ground, his kippah ripped from his head and thrown into a splash pad. Read More
Shooter who opened fire on CDC headquarters identified as 30-year-old Atlanta man
ATLANTA — Investigators identified a 30-year-old man from suburban Atlanta on Saturday as the person who opened fire on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, killing a police officer and spreading panic through the health agency and nearby Emory University. Read More
Sweltering heat wave returns to parts of Ontario, Quebec for multi-day stretch
TORONTO — Hot, humid weather is settling over much of Ontario and parts of Quebec with uncomfortably high temperatures expected to last several days. Read More
A shooting in New York City’s Times Square wounds 3 people, police say
Video on social media shows people running away from the scene, police surrounding a vehicle and attending to the wounded lying on the ground. Several people have been hospitalized, but their injuries are not life-threatening, the police said. Read More
Michigan auto jobs depend on changing course on tariffs, Whitmer tells Trump
WASHINGTON — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has met privately in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump to make a case he did not want to hear: the automotive industry he said he wants to save is being hurt by his tariffs. Read More
RCMP union pushes for change to help force attract talent from U.S., other countries
OTTAWA — The union representing front-line RCMP members wants the force to ease requirements for foreign applicants to help attract experienced police officers from agencies like the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and counterparts in the United Kingdom and Australia. Read More
Dry conditions prompt New Brunswick to follow Nova Scotia’s lead and shut down forests to public
As of 12: 01 Sunday morning, New Brunswick wants everyone in the province to stay out of the woods. All Crown land will be closed. Read More
‘Outside is a privilege, not a right’: The imagined thoughts of the Nova Scotia wilderness ban
This week, Nova Scotia announced that it was banning people from the wilderness as part of its anti-wildfire measures. While authorities will routinely ban campfires, fireworks, off-roading and other spark-heavy activities during fire season, there’s not a lot of precedent for simply sealing Canadians off from the natural world altogether. Read More
Toronto woman at heart of lipstick Ponzi scheme gets four years in prison and $610K fine
An Ontario Ponzi scheme operator who purported to be making lipstick to bilk her victims out of millions of dollars has been sentenced to four years in prison and fined $610,856. Read More
Jamie Sarkonak: COVID attitudes live on in Nova Scotia’s inconsistent forest ban
As of Tuesday, Nova Scotians are banned from doing any of the following in their forests, rock barrens, brushlands and marshes: dog walking, hiking, trail riding, bowhunting, trapping, berry picking, birdwatching, rock climbing and bike riding. Landowners are exempt on their own properties, but not their friends or relatives. Violators will receive a $25,000 fine. Read More
Housing crisis may get worse, new forecasts show
OTTAWA — Canada’s housing crisis may get worse before it starts to show much relief, as new projections say that the number of housing starts will actually decrease this year and next. Read More
Trump says he will meet with Putin to discuss possible Ukraine deal next Friday
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next Friday in Alaska to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, a potential breakthrough after weeks of expressing frustration that more was not being done to quell the fighting. Read More
U.S. more than doubles Canadian softwood duties, starting immediately
The U.S. Department of Commerce says it has made a final decision to more than double countervailing duties on Canadian softwood lumber imports, a move business groups in British Columbia say will harm communities on both sides of the border. Read More
Both Montreal tennis finalists Mboko, Osaka bow out of Cincinnati Open
WTA Montreal tournament champion Victoria Mboko and beaten finalist Naomi Osaka officially withdrew on Friday from the ATP-WTA Cincinnati Open in decisions openly telegraphed after their Thursday night final in Canada. Read More
Liberal government hikes military pay by up to 20%
OTTAWA — Canadian Armed Forces personnel will get their largest pay increase in more than 25 years, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday, part of the federal government’s plan to improve the military’s capabilities and hit NATO’s spending target. Read More
Video shows water pouring out of cruise ship slide after glass shatters, injuring passenger
A passenger has been injured on a Royal Caribbean cruise ship after acrylic glass shattered on a water slide on Thursday. Read More