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TORONTO — Several war memorials previously on display at Hudson’s Bay stores are getting new homes. Plaques from the department store’s Calgary, Winnipeg and Vancouver locations have all been donated to local branches of the Royal Canadian Legion, said Franco Perugini, a senior vice-president of real estate and legal at the defunct retailer, in a […]

TORONTO — York Regional Police say they’ve charged five people in connection with an August home invasion in Vaughan, Ont., that left a father dead. Police say at least three male suspects broke into Abdul Aleem Farooqi’s home around 1 a.m. on Aug. 31 and allegedly stole cellphones for “monetary gain only” before fatally shooting […]

Quebec provincial police say a charge against a 14-year-old boy is likely to be updated because a woman found injured inside a home earlier this week has died. Police say they found a 73-year-old woman with serious injuries in a home in Ste-Julienne, Que., at around 2 a.m. Tuesday, following a tip. She was transported […]

TORONTO — Hudson’s Bay has gifted several war memorials from its former stores to the Royal Canadian Legion and TD Bank Group. Franco Perugini, a senior vice-president of real estate and legal at the defunct retailer, says memorial plaques in HBC’s Calgary, Winnipeg and Vancouver stores were all donated to local branches of the Royal […]

Ontario Provincial Police say two people are facing multiple charges in a drug trafficking investigation that police say led to their largest fentanyl seizure to date. Police say the investigation began a year ago after OPP and Windsor police officers identified two people linked to an alleged drug trafficking network, who also had ties to […]

HANOVER — Police in Hanover, Ont., are investigating a car crash that killed three teenagers from the community. West Grey Police say emergency crews were called to Concession 2 Side Road in the area of Allen Park Road around noon on Tuesday. Const. Alison Iles says officers arrived on scene to find a smoking vehicle […]

HAMILTON — Police say a 36-year-old man in Hamilton is facing charges after allegedly taking a city bus on a “joyride” with passengers on board. They say a Hamilton Street Railway bus driver pulled into the McNab Terminal on Tuesday and exited the vehicle for a break when a man got on the bus and […]

TORONTO — Bif Naked wasn’t exactly yearning to revisit her life’s darkest moments for a deeply personal documentary. The pop-punk singer had already mined her painful past for the 2017 memoir “I Bificus,” and she balked when her longtime manager suggested putting those stories on film for “Bif Naked.” “It really wasn’t, nor could it […]

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Federal budget falls flat on affordability: poll New polling suggests Canadians had a lukewarm response to the federal budget released last week — leading one pollster to argue all parties should think twice before mounting an election campaign […]

TORONTO — More than 15 years after it went off the air, “Project Runway Canada” is returning to a country re-examining its own cultural fabric. For judge and designer Spencer Badu, the timing feels tailor-made. He hopes the show, premiering Friday on Crave, will shine a light on Canadian designers at a time when they’re […]