Unpublished Newswire
A Toronto lawyer linked to a mortgage fraud later cited as motive in a deadly 2024 triple shooting has failed to convince the Law Society of Ontario to lift his suspension.
Shahryar Mazaheri represented real estate broker Samira Yousefi, who in 2022 helped Alisa Pogorelovsky and her husband, Alan Kats, borrow $1,375,000. The couple thought they were going to invest in syndicated mortgages, but Mazaheri and another lawyer, Fred Yack, were “alleged to have acted with at least constructive knowledge of the fraud,” according to a recent decision from the Law Society Tribunal, which...
March 6, 2026 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
In history’s long arc, Canada is but a glimmer of a nation. And whereas there was a time when the accident of our favourable geography led us to believe that our existence would be eternal, regardless of how much or how little we invested in the trappings of self-reliance, that is decidedly no longer the case.
Talking points
Canada faces hybrid war from the US: tariffs, propaganda, intimidation
Canadians still cling to the idea that the old alliance will return
Survival depends on breaking decades of dependence on Washington
Being surrounded by three oceans and sharing the continent...
March 6, 2026 - 06:30 | Patrick Lennox | Walrus
Good morning. The time people rise and go to bed is highly personal, but also highly divisive – more on that below, along with the latest updates from the Middle East. But first:
March 6, 2026 - 06:25 | Zosia Bielski | The Globe and Mail
The Ford government confirmed that the Peel District School Board would be under provincial supervision, a move that has sidelined trustees and replaced them with an appointee.
March 6, 2026 - 06:01 | Colin D’Mello | Global News - Ottawa
Quebec is moving forward with plans to shield its poutine cheese curds with protected geographical status.
The Conseil des Industriels Laitiers du Québec (CILQ), the province’s dairy industry association, is pushing for a “Protected Geographical Indication” (PGI), which would enable provincial producers to identify their cheese curds as protected with an official designation seal.
To obtain the PGI, all production stages — from raw materials to final packaging — must occur in Quebec. The PGI will safeguard what the CILQ considers the unique qualities of the province’s fresh cheese...
March 6, 2026 - 06:00 | National Post Staff | National Post
A fight for ownership of the trademark for an outlaw motorcycle club’s patch — a logo notorious from a biker war that killed more than 160 people — has been settled by federal bureaucrats at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office.
In a strange clash of corporate rules meeting biker culture, the mother of a former national president of the Rock Machine Motorcycle Club faced a hostile takeover of her right to the logo by a law firm representing a client the lawyers wouldn’t name.
The Rock Machine name and logo is recognizable to many people of a certain age, particularly in Quebec...
March 6, 2026 - 06:00 | Adrian Humphreys | National Post
