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Publication Date: May 4, 2026 - 12:35
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Special constables getting power to arrest for drug use on transit, Ontario solicitor general says
May 4, 2026
The Ontario government says as part of a crackdown on illegal drug use in public spaces it will allow special constables to make arrests on transit, a proposal advocates warn risks victimizing the province’s most vulnerable people.
With its quotations from the prophets Isaiah and Amos, the philosophers Aristotle and Charles Taylor, and the Nobel Laureate Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, Prime Minister Mark Carney’s landmark speech on antisemitism aimed for some of the most rousing oratory of his premiership, as he urged all Canadians to engage with this challenge that should not be for Jews alone. But the strongest reaction in the audience at Toronto’s Holy Blossom Temple, the oldest synagogue in Canada, was to what the prime minister left unsaid. “He did not use the word ‘Zionism’ once and he could have,” said...
June 1, 2026 - 21:37 | Joseph Brean | National Post
The Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement is up for review on July 1. It's the free trade deal that impacts more than $1 trillion of the Canadian economy each year. Trump has previously threatened to abandon the agreement, but some trade experts are calling his bluff. Here's everything you need to know about the agreement, and what's at stake.
June 1, 2026 - 20:56 | | CBC News - Canada
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