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When eight-year-old “Cole” arrived at the Alberta Children’s Hospital, he was in a state of extreme starvation and was suffering burns to his head and face from boiling water being poured over him — punishment for eating without permission.

Court heard that most of the abuse was committed by Stephanie Alisha Baker, the victim’s stepmother. But Scott was aware, witnessed the assaults, starvation and neglect and sometimes participated, according to an agreed statement of facts (ASF).

Two neighbours, mothers of children who played with Cole, noticed the starving, abused boy and tried to help.

Both women called police and child and family services in May 2023 but Cole was not removed from Baker and Scott’s care until his hospitalization four months later.

The growing white nationalist "active club" movement poses a risk for "extreme violence" in Canada, according to an internal Public Safety Canada brief obtained by CBC News.

The report appears to reveal, for the first time, that the federal department that oversees the RCMP is addressing this movement directly. In previous reporting, the RCMP would not specifically comment on the rapid rise of active clubs — white nationalist groups that operate under the guise of getting fit through training and combat sports.

Of the more than 200 known active club chapters globally, a “disproportionate” number, more than 30, operate in Canada, according to the report. Second Sons Canada — a similar far-right group — has more than 15 chapters.

These fascist fight clubs have increasingly moved from online forums to real-world training and public demonstrations.

Do want to point out there was a post about how poor of a journalist this guy is and his crap show on Global News. Then subsequently it seems like there has been a giant uptick of Global News posts many which are either just very superficial article or just straight up wire feed repost.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/55344080

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Iranian‑Canadians are feeling a ... mix of hope and relief.

An Iranian woman in Montreal, who didn’t want her name published because she fears that speaking out against the regime could put her at risk, said she hopes the attack in Iran will spur change.

She said she moved from Iran in 2014 because “the financial situation began to deteriorate, and anti-women policies and rules became very numerous.” She has PhD in education from the University of Montreal and is a French teacher.

She described feeling both hopeful and cautious after the death of Khamenei.

“We can now hope for regime change. At the same time, we are afraid this military intervention will not lead to regime change. It’s a roller-coaster of emotions,” she said.

She added that she and her family are planning a trip to Iran this summer.

“Our families are there. If the regime falls, we will be able to go. If not, it will be complicated, because since January, we have been working hard to bring about regime change, not just me, but all my friends. We are mobilized.”

She said that in a few years, she and her husband hope to return permanently.

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There are currently more than 85,000 Canadian citizens and permanent residents registered in the Middle East, with almost 3,000 in Iran alone, Global Affairs Canada says.

The number is based on voluntary self-registration by Canadians with Global Affairs Canada as of Sunday, which means the actual number may be higher.

“At this time, we are not aware of any Canadians who have been injured or killed as a result of the hostilities,” GAC said.

The countries with the highest number of registered Canadians are Lebanon, with 23,165 Canadians, and the United Arab Emirates, with 23,064.

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As the war in Ukraine enters its fifth year, some on the front lines with ties to Saskatchewan say the war is not going anywhere.

The night before Mac Hughes and his dad Paul Hughes spoke to Saskatoon Morning host Candice Lipski, a Shahed drone flew into the apartment next to his at 3 a.m., Mac said.

"The war has definitely not let up in any way," he said.

The father-son pair are both based in Ukraine. Paul, a former Canadian soldier who grew up partly in Lanigan, Sask., went to Ukraine to fight and has been there since the early days of Russia's full-scale invasion.

He says his son joined him there not long afterwards.

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Very few Ukrainians have any confidence that a ceasefire is coming, he said, "because they're dealing with Putin and they know their neighbour better than anybody else in the world."

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"It's been a very difficult winter, the most difficult so far," he said.

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Canadian humanitarian aid worker Angela Hill agrees.

After returning to Saskatoon from a recent trip to Ukraine with the Red Cross, Hill told Saskatchewan Weekend host Shauna Powers it's the worst cold the country has seen in about a decade.

"People regularly said that this is the hardest it's been since the beginning of the escalation," Hill said.

She said she's made several trips to Ukraine and for this one, she visited several places with projects and people supported by the Canadian Red Cross.

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More than 13 years after one pipe layer was killed and another injured while replacing a Burnaby storm sewer, their employer is in court for a sentencing hearing.

On Oct. 11, 2012, pipe layers Thomas Richer and Jeff Caron were working in a newly excavated trench when a nearby retaining wall collapsed into the ditch. The falling rubble crushed Caron to death and seriously injured Richer.

On Dec. 11, 2025, the B.C. Supreme Court found Langley-based construction company J. Cote & Son Excavating guilty of one count each of criminal negligence causing bodily harm and criminal negligence causing death.

The maximum penalty for the corporation is a fine up to the court’s discretion.

As the architect of the Brexit campaign, the charismatic (Nigel) Farage galvanized voters to narrowly support the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union in 2016, a decision a growing majority of Britons now regret.

But while Manning serves as an inspiration to Farage, he is an object of querulous derision by Jeffrey Rath, the abrasive leader of the Alberta Prosperity Project, or APP, Alberta’s black cowboy-hatted version of the Brexit campaign.

Without prompting during a Feb. 16 YouTube podcast, Rath disparaged Manning, Questerre Energy founder Michael Binnion and Calgary billionaire Ron Mannix, accusing them of trying to rein in the APP’s burgeoning independence.

Manning has responded by calling Rath’s comments “highly inaccurate,” and telling The Tyee that Rath’s appearances on CBC and other media create an impression that “western secession is mainly being pushed by an ill-informed group of cowboy yahoos.”

Canada's seemingly breakneck effort to replace its aging submarine fleet hits an important milestone on Monday with the deadline for both the South Korean and German shipyards to submit their formal proposals in the more than $20-billion program.

The federal plan to buy as many as 12 submarines for the Royal Canadian Navy has evolved rapidly over the last year into one of the most consequential procurement battles in a generation.

It is a contest that will shape the navy's undersea reach, Canada's Arctic posture and the country's industrial alliances for decades.

Longtime Formula One race fan Paul Mann was in a bind.

The Oakville, Ont., man had snapped up nine three-day passes to the 2025 Canadian Grand Prix — $840 each — directly from race organizers. But when his wife broke her leg skiing and others backed out, Mann was left holding seven pricey passes he couldn't use.

So he turned to StubHub to sell them.

Mann did exactly what StubHub told him to do, uploading the tickets to the site as directed.

But when they sold, the money didn't come.

Instead of getting the more than $6,000 he was owed, StubHub refused to pay — and then hit him with an additional $3,200 penalty, accusing him of failing to deliver the tickets he'd already uploaded to the site.

The Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal is organized by Grand Prix Du Canada.

In an email to Go Public, a spokesperson for the organization says tickets "can be transferred through our official channels; however, resale on unauthorized third-party platforms such as StubHub is not permitted."

During his short tenure as Canada's interim parliamentary budget officer, Jason Jacques endured accusations of partisanship, criticism over his message delivery and, in the end, praise for representing an institution now ranked first among its international equals.

Appointed in September by Prime Minister Mark Carney to sit in the chair until a permanent parliamentary budget officer (PBO) could be appointed, Jacques decided early that he wanted his six months to have an impact.

On his first day he asked the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to undertake its very first review of Canada's Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer to see how it measures up to similar institutions in other countries. The review looked at the office itself — which provides independent financial analysis to Parliament — rather than individual officers.

That review, delivered last week, ranked the PBO first out of the 35 countries the OECD evaluated. Second on the list is the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, third is the Bureau for Economic Analysis in the Netherlands.

New research using drug-checking results could provide an insight into why toxic drug death tolls have been on a downward trend for two years now in B.C.

But scientists and officials say there are likely multiple factors behind exactly why the number of drug-related deaths in B.C. dropped by 21 per cent in 2025 compared to the previous year.

Though the number of overdose deaths have been dropping sharply across North America, those working in the field say there's no reason to celebrate given thousands continue to die, and efforts to stop deaths should be stepped up.

"It's not necessarily a decline in the crisis itself. The drug supply is still as toxic and unpredictable as ever, if not more so," said Samuel Tobias, a researcher at the B.C. Centre on Substance Use and PhD candidate at the University of British Columbia.

Brent crude jumped 10 per cent to about $80 US a barrel over the counter on Sunday, oil traders said, while analysts predicted that prices could climb as high as $100 US after U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran plunged the Middle East into ​a new war.

The global oil benchmark has rallied this ​year and reached $73 US a barrel on Friday for its highest since July, buoyed by growing concern over the potential attacks that arrived a day later. Futures ​trading is closed over the weekend.

"While the military attacks are themselves supportive ⁠for oil prices, the key ⁠factor here is the closing of the ‌Strait of Hormuz," said Ajay Parmar, director of energy and refining at ICIS.

A former senior Canadian general says it's highly likely some Canadian military members, on exchange with the United States, would have been involved at some level in the planning and co-ordination of air strikes on Iran — something the Department of National Defence disputes.

Prime Minister Mark Carney has said he supports U.S. actions to destroy Iran's nuclear program. On Saturday, speaking in Mumbai during his four-day visit to India, he said Canada as a country is not participating militarily and that the federal government was "not party to the military buildup or planning."

His statement, however, did not specifically address the fate of exchange officers currently serving with the U.S. military.

The Department of National Defence website shows that as many as 18 military personnel with the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) are attached to Operation Foundation, working at the U.S. Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain and at the Combined Aerospace Operations Center (CAOC) at Al Udeid airbase in Qatar.