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Deepak Paradkar is proposing to remain on 24/7 house arrest without leaving home unless accompanied by one of his sureties his wife and another relative and to forgo all electronic devices except for his wife's cellphone, to be used only in her presence and for specific purposes. Paradkar, one of several Canadians arrested in an FBI investigation targeting Olympian-turned-fugitive Ryan Wedding, is also proposing to be under GPS monitoring and turn over his passport to the RCMP.

He said he's put in alarm systems and 24-hour security cameras at his collectable card stores in Ajax and Vaughan. The store's staff have vigorous security training and customers have to buzz in at some entrances, Amendola said. I treat it like a bank essentially, he said. In the past five years, the company has had three break-ins, an armed robbery, and six figures worth of mail fraud and theft, Amendola said.

The two-year closure of a major street running through Oshawa, Ont., to complete a planned GO train expansion isn't sitting well with residents and councillors in the south end of the city. Provincial transit agency Metrolinx has faced public pressure to release its construction schedule for the Bowmanville expansion project after it delivered a confidential presentation to Durham regional councillors last month.

Donna is described as white, 5'6, medium build and shoulder length frizzy brown and grey hair. (Supplied by Peel Regional Police) Peel police are asking for the public's assistance in locating a missing woman from Brampton, Ont. Donna, who is 70-years-old, was last seen on Monday at approximately 4:30 p.m. in the area of Queen Street and Chinguacousy Road, Peel Regional Police said in a news release Tuesday.

B lack-clad white men stand at attention. They chant and hold crude banners with "D.E.I. IS HOW NATIONS DIE" and "MASS DEPORTATIONS NOW" scrawled across them. A man screams through a megaphone about "foreign blood" and "retak[ing] our nation" while his followers intone the words "honour," "heritage," and "triumph." This scene-from a video posted to white nationalist Telegram channels-is footage of a rally held in Toronto on May 3 of this year.

Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau have launched their relationship on Instagram, after the singer posted a photo of the pair smiling cheek to cheek and a video of them eating sushi together while in Japan. Perry's post appeared to confirm the pair are in a relationship, after months of speculation about a possible romance between her and the former Canadian prime minister.

A powerful, magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck a remote area near the border between Alaska and the Canadian territory of Yukon on Saturday. There was no tsunami warning, and officials said there were no immediate reports of damage or injury. The US Geological Survey said the quake struck about 230 miles (370km) north-west of Juneau, Alaska, and 155 miles (250) west of Whitehorse, Yukon.

In December 2024, when United States president-elect Donald Trump started making implicit threats of annexation, Canadians became suspicious of the outside world. It's not just America that put us on edge. We used to be friends with everyone. Who didn't like Canada? We were peaceful, funny, and everyone's pal. Everyone wanted to sit with us at the United Nations cafeteria.

Ontario Education Minister Paul Calandra says he will make a final decision early in the new year on what changes to make to the role of trustees in the school system, but he is signalling he is inclined to largely eliminate it. Speaking at a school Friday in Ottawa, where he announced funding to build two new schools and expand one, he says nothing so far has led him to believe that the Ministry of Education's $43-billion budget should be delivered by trustees.

He was represented at the hearing by his lawyer Ravin Pillay, who replaced Paradkar as defence counsel on the high-profile Tim Bosma murder case in Hamilton back in 2016. Pillay said the suspension would not be contested by his client but he also noted that Paradkar maintains his innocence, and plans to "vigorously defend himself on the criminal charges. None of the allegations have been tested in court.

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles, as travel writer Tim Cahill said. As a Pacific Northwest writer who frequently travels to Canada, I couldn't agree more. Living barely an hour south of the Canadian border, I've had the pleasure of hopping the 49th parallel countless times. The real magic of crossing that line is not just the immediate sense of spaciousness, but the feeling of a familiar, open-hearted welcome.

Asbestos cleanup, tight work windows and other TTC delays have slowed the build out of 5G cellular service in Toronto's subway system, and TTC staff now say they don't expect Rogers Communications Inc. will be able to meet a federally imposed deadline that looms at the end of this month. A new report detailing updates on the transit agency's major projects, which is set to go before a Toronto Transit Commission board meeting next Wednesday, says Rogers' 5G implementation is at risk of missing targets. But the document cites issues related to the transit system itself, rather than Rogers' efforts.

Food prices in Canada could increase by four to six per cent next year, largely driven by pricier meat products, according to a forecast by researchers at Dalhousie University. Beef in particular is expected to get more expensive, potentially rising seven per cent, as cattle sizes shrink (those markets are susceptible to tariffs) and more ranchers leave the industry, said the research team behind Canada's Food Price Report. Tightened beef supply is expected to last through 2027, though the country has upped its import volume to deal with those challenges, according to the forecast.

As Canadian citizens, we say "Elbows Up," but will our corporate entities stand with us when they are under threat? Do we feel our corporations-and their leaders-are more loyal to democracy than our American equivalents? I think many of them would have no problem with a vassal state if it allowed them to avoid Trump's wrath. They may simply look for the transition that least interferes with their business.

Toronto could see more than 20 kilometres of new bike lanes installed in a proposal that manages to get around the provincial government's attempts to clamp down on them. Car lanes won't need to be sacrificed if the bikeways are approved. Instead, city staff propose to narrow them down. Mayor Olivia Chow said the plan is not a loophole for provincial legislation at an unrelated news conference earlier this week. It's just a better design, she said.

Some of the cruelest, most scientifically useless forms of abuse perpetrated under MKUltra occurred on Canadian soil. At McGill University, agents drugged civilians with hallucinogenic and narcotic drugs in the pursuit of novel forms of torture and interrogation. Maybe, instead, we should take as our example the Central Intelligence Agency agents (both named and anonymous) who abetted in the murder of Patrice Lumumba, former prime minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 1961.

Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomed Canadian tennis star Victoria Mboko to Parliament Hill on Wednesday, telling the Toronto teen that Canadians are proud of her breakthrough season on the WTA Tour. Carney met with the 19-year-old Mboko and members of her family at his West Block office and got a first-hand look at the trophy she won at this National Bank Open this summer in Montreal.

Electorally, the party itself needs to recover. But, beyond this, it needs to debate and reckon with more existential questions of policy and purpose. That calls for a genuine process of renewal, not simply a rebrand, and NDP members deserve a leadership race characterized by vibrant, vigorous debate about the party and its future. This being the case, the debate in Montreal this past Thursday -the first of only two official debates currently scheduled-was a resounding failure,

When an earthquake in 2002 struck in a remote pocket of Alaska, the shock was the strongest ever recorded in the interior of the state. But, miraculously, an oil pipeline that crossed directly over the fault line was unscathed. Engineers behind the design of the 800 mile system were prepared. Knowing the high likelihood of seismic activity along the route, which bisected the Denali fault, they constructed sections where the pipeline rested on rail girders, allowing it to sway and shear without snapping.