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Ottawa: Supreme Court gets it wrong, rules no free trade between provinces; you can't buy beer and cross a provincial border if province says you can't

Napanee Beaver: Plans revealed for Napanee redevelopment project on historic Gibbard Furniture factory site

Lorne Gunter - Toronto Sun: The motivating factors behind our pipeline crisis

Toronto Sun: Ontario’s power-price crisis -- how it happened and who got hurt

Globe and Mail: Queen urges Commonwealth to name Prince Charles as its next leader

Bloomberg: That gorgeous Toronto condo you signed up for? They just scrapped it

CTV: CN Tower closed for 4th consecutive day due to falling ice risk

Tom Blackwell - National Post: Failed Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne calls Doug Ford a Canadian Trump as campaign turns 'vicious' — but is it a winning strategy? Not when your incompetence is well-known and loathed

CTV: Quebec man who caused flight to return to Montreal ordered to pay $17,450

Guelph Today: Stone Road Mall to cut hours in attempt to combat negative impact of minimum wage hike

Moody's downgrades Ontario's credit rating to negative from stable

K-W Record: Canadian drug mule jailed 8 years in cocaine cruise

Global News: Doug Ford tells Nepean crowd the ‘days of gouging the taxpayers is done’

Jerry Agar - Toronto Sun: Minimum wage law kills job opportunities for disabled

Brian Lilley: Bureaucrats advice to Trudeau, hide the real immigration numbers from the public

Montreal Gazette: 'We've reached our limit to house illegal asylum seekers', Quebec says

CBC: Canada sending home families of diplomats in Cuba after cases of 'new type' of brain injury

CTV: Thousands remain without power in wake of Ontario ice storm

Mark Bonokoski - Toronto Sun: First Trans Mountain, then the resurrection of Energy East

Ottawa Citizen: Hundreds brave ice storm to attend Doug Ford rallies in Ottawa

CBC: Ford promises minimum wage earners will pay no provincial income tax, saving typical employee $800

Windsor Star: Windsor mayor fears border woes once cannabis legal

Toronto Star: Trudeau’s top security adviser denies blaming Indian government for ‘conspiracy’ in Atwal affair

Globe and Mail: Alberta introduces law to restrict flow of oil, gas amid pipeline dispute with B.C.

Global News: Canadians scrambling to pay off debt as interest rates rise: poll

updated Toronto: Ice falling from CN Tower smashes cars and office windows, and punctures Rogers Centre roof; risk to fans postpones Blue Jays game; doubleheader Tuesday

Global News: Sentencing hearing begins for American woman over role in Halifax mall shooting plot

Lorne Gunter - Edmonton Sun: Failed policies force feds and Alberta NDP to backstop Trans Mountain

CTV: FCM Guide to cannabis legalization predicts home-grown pot will give municipalities headaches

Global News: Monster ice storm continues to ravage southern Ontario, OPP warns motorists to stay off roads

Editorial - Globe and Mail: David Livingston’s jail sentence sends the right message about accountability

Global News: Trudeau whiffs; Trans Mountain pipeline battle continues, B.C. goes ahead with legal reference case challenging federal power

CBC: It just got personal: PC supporters, Liberals roll out pre-election attack ads

Toronto Star: Mike Pence thanks Trudeau for supporting Syria strikes, says NAFTA deal close

James Wallace - Toronto Sun: Wynne no modern-day Robin Hood

CBC: Environment Canada upgrades potential ice storm warning for Southern Ontario

CBC: Ham-handed Liberal Govt meddling; Sellers blame new mortgage rules as average Canadian house price falls 10% in past year

CBC: Quebec City mosque shooter set off by Canada's open stance on refugees

Madoc: Social-media threats against high school lead to charges in Centre Hastings

Guelph Mercury: Doug Ford vows to fire CEO and board of Hydro One if elected Premier

Ottawa - CBC: Finally, Trudeau to interrupt foreign trip to meet with NDP Premiers Notley and Horgan on pipeline impasse which threatens Canadian economy

CBC: 16 Canadians arrested during international investigation into online child sex abuse

Humboldt Journal: SJHL to go ahead with remainder of playoffs

Toronto - CBC: Mayor urges Torontonians to wear hockey jerseys today in support of Humboldt Broncos

No Spring warming, Winter weather continues - CBC: Freezing rain today in southern Ontario, ice storm coming this weekend; some areas could get as much as 20 mm of ice or more on Saturday

Lorrie Goldstein - Toronto Sun: Justin Trudeau’s Peter Pan Syndrome

Tom Blackwell - National Post: At $1B, cancelling gas plants was actually one of Ontario Liberals’ cheaper, expensive electricity decisions that has needlessly indebted Ontarians for decades to come

iPolitics: Wynne tries to distance herself from former Liberal Chief of Staff to Premier given jail sentence for political cover-up

Toronto Star: Premier Wynne forced on defensive at Black community debate

C2C Journal: Down and out in Ontario; "it is hardly a revelation that more government control, through higher taxes and more regulation, yields poor fiscal, economic, and social outcomes"

CBC: Doug Ford targets seats in northern Ontario, long a wasteland for PC Party

Global News: Ontario Liberal budget fails to woo voters as PCs gain double-digit lead: Ipsos poll

Calgary Herald: 'He's a good guy': Truck driver in Humboldt crash worked with Calgary company for 'about a month'

CBC: Trumps, Trudeaus, Obamas not invited to wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

Global News: Calgary trucking company suspended pending investigation of Humboldt Broncos crash

Sportsnet: Body in Humboldt Broncos bus crash misidentified

CBC: 1st Humboldt Broncos team player released from hospital

Saskatoon Star-Phoenix: 'He's actually a miracle': Father of Broncos player was first on scene, called by his spared son: "the bus was in an accident" just a quarter-mile down the road

Saskatoon Star-Phoenix: 'It's got to rip the heart out of your chest': Leafs head coach and Saskatoon native Mike Babcock on Humboldt crash

Saskatoon Star-Phoenix: 'The tears just keep coming': Humboldt Broncos captain and head coach among 14 dead after Saskatchewan hockey bus crash

Joe Oliver - Financial Post: Kathleen Wynne switches her cynical political machine into fake caring mode

CBC: Doctor who survived Ebola visits Winnipeg to thank ZMapp scientists

Saskatoon - CTV News: RCMP confirm fatalities after Humboldt Broncos hockey team bus, semi crash

Adam Radwanski - Globe and Mail: Why Doug Ford's controversial campaign-bus decision does everyone a favour

Andrew Coyne - National Post: Serious questions remain around Atwal affair despite partisan silliness

Globe and Mail: Ontario Liberals paid English Catholic teachers’ union $31M as part of settlement for wage increase delays

Don Martin - CTV News: Political hot air to blame for pending carbon pricing failure; shallow McKenna floundering out of her depth

CTV News: Budget has not swung election as Tories still enjoy big lead: poll

Kelly McParland - National Post: Why Doug Ford doesn't need a plan to win the Ontario election

Sohail Gandhi - Huffington Post: Having learned nothing, Ontario Liberals keep trying to vilify physicians

Global News: Private sector workforce declines by 7,000 but nearly 20,000 new government jobs holds Canada unemployment rate steady as part-time positions disappear

Halifax Chronicle Herald: Statistics Canada reports trade deficit grows to $2.7B in February; 700K above predictions

Global News: Hamilton resident arrested in Locke Street anarchist mob vandalism

CTV News: Ontario storm cuts power to thousands, causes mega-damage with high winds, snow

iPolitics: Lobby wrap: Google’s Sidewalk Labs registers director to chat data collection, use with privacy watchdog

CTV News: Money to move: Newfoundland and Labrador government offers up to $270K per home to clear out tiny towns

CBC: 3 more Ontario Liberals, including 2 cabinet ministers, won't seek re-election

Rex Murphy - National Post: Cheers for the meat-eating hero who took on 'privileged' vegan bullies

Joe Warmington - Toronto Sun: PC leader Doug Ford gets warm reception in NDP, Liberal hotbed of Hamilton

Global News: Hwy. 400 near Barrie re-opens after up to 50 vehicles involved in crashes: police

Father Raymond J. de Souza - National Post: Canada's churches aren't interested in Trudeau's 30 pieces of silver

Lorne Gunter - Toronto Sun: How the Liberals' attestation will ruin summer for many Canadians

Global News: Windstorm knocks out power for nearly 100,000 customers in southern Ontario: Hydro One

Globe and Mail: Trudeau government’s Davos trip cost taxpayers nearly $700,000 — so far

Toronto Star: Keeping the Pickering nuclear plant open until 2024 is good for economy, report says

Doug Ford - Toronto Sun: Kathleen Wynne’s farewell budget

Ross Ayotte - Lake Superior News: Waiting for Vote Liberal Free Groceries for Life; they've tried every other bribe

Mark Bonokoski - Toronto Sun: Justin Trudeau unwisely plays media like April fools

CP: Quebec, Ontario budgets reveal vastly different approaches: prudence and recklessness

Global News: It just got tougher to take Quebec’s back door into Vancouver and Toronto real estate

CTV News: Mulcair's advice to NDP leader Jagmeet Singh? Get a seat

Montreal: Supporting winning sports teams boosts heart attack risk, study finds

Adam Radwanski - Globe and Mail: As Wynne goes further left, Ontario looks more polarized than ever before

Huffington Post: 1 in 4 Anglo-Canadians have ditched cable, majority use Netflix: report

Washington Post: Canadians’ love affair with Justin Trudeau is over

Napanee Guide: Loyalist OPP arrest five males after pursuit that ends in collision with train

CTV News: Recession path? Statistics Canada says economy pulled back 0.1% in January

CTV News: Spendaholic Ontario budget says 'damn the torpedoes' and tries to buy votes for Wynne with billions of new debt for world debt leader

Toronto Star: Peter Munk, founder of Barrick Gold, dead at age 90

John Michael McGrath - TVO: The Auditor General gives the Liberals a headache on the eve of their feel-good budget

Martin Regg Cohn - Toronto Star: Ontario budget delivers most ambitious pre-election blueprint in recent memory — at a huge cost

Lorrie Goldstein - Toronto Sun: Nothing Wynne and Sousa say is believable

Globe and Mail: Auditor-General blasts ‘bogus’ hydro accounting strategies in Ontario

CTV News: 'Abusive and exploitative': Petition seeks to eliminate birth tourism in B.C.

Toronto Star: Doug Ford says he will cut red tape and hydro rates to revive Ontario manufacturing jobs

CBC: Tim Hortons, franchisees spat over $700M plan to reno most Canadian locations

CTV News: 'Perfectly Canadian': Hockey mom hailed for breastfeeding during intermission

Global News: Liberal approval rating drops to 44% as women, middle class look to Tories: Ipsos poll

Canadian Press - Canoe: Canada joins list of countries expelling Russian diplomats en masse following ex-spy nerve agent attack

CTV News: Canada gives border security extra powers to crack down on imports of cheap steel, aluminum

Toronto Star: Ryerson transit expert challenges the TTC’s findings on the King St. pilot project; businesses suffering heavy losses, street vibe gone

A.J. Somerset - Ottawa Citizen: The Liberals take their shot at gun control — and satisfy nobody

Tristin Hopper - National Post: What really happened in the Chilcotin War, the 1864 conflict that just prompted an exoneration from Trudeau?

Bloomberg: Canadian dairies are booming amid Trump’s trade threats

Andrew Coyne - National Post: Liberals' effort to blackmail churches over abortion opposition backfires

Editorial - Toronto Sun: Liberals losing support of women despite Trudeau pandering

National Post: The hospital CEO who created the continent's 'first digital hospital' is now behind Doug Ford's health policy

Lorrie Goldstein - Toronto Sun: Green energy is Grits' mega-blunder; "facilitated the waste of billions of dollars of public money, as documented by two Ontario auditors general" and "denied natural justice to the citizens of rural Ontario, by dictatorially usurping the planning powers of their municipal governments"

Toronto Star: Air Canada flight makes emergency landing in Washington, D.C. after smoke found in cockpit

James Wallace - Toronto Sun: Wynne hiding major cuts to public services?

Sue-Ann Levy - Toronto Sun: Doug Ford unstoppable

Lawrence Solomon - Financial Post: Trudeau will learn a painful lesson — voters really dislike climate crusading

Stewart Bell - Global News: Juno Awards ‘attractive’ terrorist target, government report says. But what isn’t these days?

Saskatoon Star-Phoenix: 'I think we made our point': Conservatives end their nearly 21-hour-long House of Commons voting marathon in protest of Liberal refusal to provide witness

Windsor Star: Sunshine List: Two years after termination, Switzer still top LHIN salary earner

National Post: New Democrat MP punished after supporting Conservative's Summer Jobs motion

CP: Canada’s allies frustrated with Trudeau handling of Mali peacekeeping announcement

Margaret Wente - Globe and Mail: Time to #deletefacebook

Rob Breakenridge - Global News: Canada must ensure dangerous criminals are deported

Rex Murphy - National Post: 'Facebook made me do it' is no excuse for bad decisions

CBC: Federal Liberals spend $150K over 2 years to fly in stakeholders for announcements

CBC: Kaetlyn Osmond wins figure skating worlds, 1st Canadian female champ in 45 years

Chantal Hébert - Toronto Star: Liberals are all talk and no action when it comes to protecting the integrity of Canada’s next election

Toronto Star: American-born Green Party Leader Elizabeth May joins American activists against oil pipeline; arrested in PR ploy

Global News: Ontario Sunshine List: Number of public sector workers earning over $100k tops 130,000

CBC: New titanium industry could grow out of oilsands waste

Joe Oliver - Toronto Sun: In support of populism and Doug Ford

Halifax - CBC: On the night he nearly died, this man resorted to leaving the ER to call 911 for help

CP: Just For Laughs sold to Howie Mandel and partners

Toronto Star: Doug Ford, PCs find traction with affordability, accountability message, poll finds

Toronto Sun: Ontario Tory leader Doug Ford to put business assets in trust

Walied Soliman - Toronto Sun: Unreservedly for Doug; a must-read

Kelly McParland - National Post: As Quebec gets its house in order, Ontario continues bankrupting itself

Spend, spend, spend - CBC: Beleagured Ontario Liberals use Throne Speech to make big spending promises for health care, child care

Toronto Star: Doug Ford fires up 2,000 PC Party supporters at ‘unity rally’

Jennifer Wells - Toronto Star: A growing list of reasons to unfriend Facebook; The foundational truths of the social-media giant now lie in tatters

Stuart Thomson - National Post: Justin Trudeau is less popular than Stephen Harper was at this point in his tenure as PM

Global News: Here we snow again? Winter weather forecast for Metro Vancouver Thursday

CTV News: Facebook whistleblower previously pushed data-mining boundaries in Canada, source tells CP

Huffington Post: Justin Trudeau's disapproval rating jumps over 50% for first time; Angus Reid says Tories now have a shot at winning a majority government

CBC: Uber halts self-driving test in Toronto after Arizona pedestrian death

CBC: Super-fast, next-generation 5G wireless to get $200M research boost from governments

Toronto Star: Canada to deploy helicopters, medical team to UN Mali mission

Global News: Ontario NDP platform to include universal benefits for workers, deprivatizing Hydro One, but no announced plan on how to pay for the promises

CTV News: Tory defence critic questions plan to send Canadian peacekeepers to dangerous Mali under UN command

CBC: RCMP move to arrest pipeline protesters at entrance to Trans Mountain work site

Christie Blatchford - National Post: Queen's University joins the academic bullies against author of colonialism article; the world, it appears, needs not more Canada, but less

CBC: How Ontario's soaring auto insurance rates could swing the provincial election

Chantal Hébert - Toronto Star: NDP brain trust was unprepared to manage Sikh independence controversy

CBC: NDP leader Jagmeet Singh oddly preoccupied with Indian politics and events from 1984, instead of focus on current Canadian domestic conditions

CBC: Progressive Conservatives outline plan for northern Ontario; Ford says Ring of Fire project impact comparable to Alberta oilsands

Global News: Man charged with 3 counts of 2nd-degree murder in Ajax triple homicide

updated CBC: B.C. Premier, Washington state Governor announce study of high-speed rail connecting Portland, Seattle and Vancouver

James Wallace - Toronto Sun: Patrick Brown’s story is far from over after withdrawal from June election

Chris Selley - National Post: With Wynne taking a Reefer Madness tone, Doug Ford is voice of reason on marijuana; "Kathleen Wynne has never looked more like a fraud..."

Reuters: Canada household debt-to-income near record high, home sales fall

CTV News: Federal NDP leader Singh says he'd attend future Sikh-separatist events; divided loyalties?

Reuters: Canada factory sales dip 1 percent on aerospace, autos weakness

Global News: Ontario PC Party could get majority government as Tories have lead in seat-rich GTA: Ipsos Poll

Financial Post: Canadian crude just found a new way to Asia — no pipeline necessary

Kingston Whig-Standard: Mother convicted of killing 3 daughters in Kingston 'honour killing' ordered deported

Brian Lilley: Trump vs Trudeau, who is right and does it matter?

CBC: New U.S. tariffs will cost Corner Brook Pulp and Paper $30M a year

Fraser Institute: Ontario’s Lost Decade: 2007–2016; Ontario underperformed the rest of the country in each of the metrics examined in this study, specifically, real economic growth per person, private sector job growth, progress in real median household incomes, or debt accumulated per capita

Global News: 3 killed in domestic-related case in Durham, male suspect charged: police

Toronto Star: Trump’s new economic adviser Kudlow called Trudeau a ‘left-wing crazy guy’ — but he sides with Canada on NAFTA, tariffs

CITY News: Could Kathleen Wynne lose in her own riding? Forum Research poll raises the possibility

Martin Patriquin - iPolitics: Jagmeet Singh can’t endorse separatist politics in Punjab while denouncing them in Quebec

CBC: Doug Ford wants govt out of cannabis business in Ontario; Ford has also promised to repeal Ontario's extreme sex-ed curriculum, not accept a federal carbon tax in Ontario, and end provincial income taxes for people making $30,000 or less a year

Toronto Star: Doug Ford’s pitch to Ontario voters will cut costs, size of government — but no layoffs

Paul Wells - Macleans: Where Jagmeet Singh is really coming from; Canadians are getting used to hearing half answers from the new NDP leader — on questions he himself is raising — about Sikh extremism

Ottawa Citizen: NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh defends attending Sikh separatist rally in 2015, but condemns terrorism

Not-so-closet radical? - Globe and Mail: Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh attended Sikh separatist rally in San Francisco in 2015

Joe Oliver - Financial Post: Yet more proof foreign radicals (yes, radicals) are sabotaging Canada’s economy

CTV News: Canada holds onto seventh rank in World Happiness Report, Finland first; Canada was 7th in 2017, 6th in 2016 and 5th in 2015

Toronto - CBC: Doug Ford says Ontario PCs are 'always going to be progressive'

570 News: Peladeau says Quebecor has $2 billion available for networks, stock buybacks

Tarek Fatah - Toronto Sun: Four Lefties for Doug Ford

Halifax - CBC: Nor'easter downs trees, church steeple, causes widespread power outages; winds gusting up to 128 km/h blew through Nova Scotia Tuesday night

Susan Delacourt - iPolitics: Ford is no Trump; he’s a lot more like Harper

Global News: How Rex Tillerson’s firing affects Canada

Royal Central: Belgian King Philippe and Queen Mathilde kick off their State Visit to Canada with another big diplomatic mistake from Trudeau Govt

Toronto Star: Air Canada says services restored after massive system outage affected Pearson, other airports

CBC: Doug Ford's messages resonate in Waterloo region, says MPP Michael Harris who had supported Elliott

Toronto Star: Jr. Snub: Trudeau skips meeting Belgian royalty, business delegation

Toronto Sun: Doug Ford plans broad 'movement' that includes many Liberals and NDP

Calgary Herald: Federal Environment Minister McKenna says she will force Saskatchewan to have a carbon tax

Global News: Vancouver, Toronto residents digging into debt faster than any Canadians, data shows

CTV News: Canada's busiest highway shut down in Ajax as Ontario police pursue bank robbery suspects

Global News: RCMP launches DNA program hoping to link victims, families, offenders, remains

Montreal - CTV News: Prime Minister, Premier meeting with Quebec's aluminum and steel workers; failures in NAFTA negotiations coming home to roost

CBC: Saskatoon police consider murder charges after 2 fatally OD on cocaine suspected of containing fentanyl

Global News: From sex-ed to a carbon tax: Here’s where Doug Ford stands on big issues

CBC: Forget the 416 — Doug Ford says his biggest fans are outside of Toronto; promises wins in new places due to widespread dread of Wynne

CTV News: Man charged after drug lab explodes in Pembroke

Financial Post: Canada among three economies in world most at risk of banking crisis, BIS warns

Halifax Chronicle Herald: Competition Bureau searches Torstar, Postmedia offices in newspaper swap review

CTV News: Man charged with First Degree Murder in Napanee crash that killed 88-yr-old

Rex Murphy - National Post: The contemptible concept of 'white privilege' is just ugly, angry racism

Breitbart: Canadian Climate Minister urges attention to the ‘gendered impacts’ of climate change

Sandy Crux - Crux of the Matter: Ontario PC Leadership race results

Chantal Hébert - Toronto Star: Federal leaders would have little to celebrate with Doug Ford as Premier of Ontario

Toronto Star: Ottawa to pursue settlements with residential school survivors that suffered student-on-student abuse

CBC: Doug Ford named new Ontario PC leader after chaotic convention day; won on 3rd ballot preferences

Toronto Star: PCs would win next Ontario election despite media-generated voters’ dislike of Doug Ford, Forum poll finds

Calgary Herald: Alberta Education Minister puts school superintendents' pay and benefits under review

Toronto Star: Toronto trial hears cop tipped off drug dealers in exchange for cash

Financial Post: 'Fear and uncertainty': Out-of-province homebuyers could rush to sell if B.C. slaps speculation tax

Toronto Star: Saskatchewan stands pat against carbon tax after meeting with Trudeau

CP24: Judge blocks request for PC leadership race extension

Global News: NAFTA termination could result in loss of 85k jobs in Canada: report

CBC: Names of Indigenous groups who won coveted Arctic surf clam quota announced; 5 winners come from Atlantic Canada and Quebec, which has angered shut-out Nova Scotia Indigenous groups

CP24: Ontario PC Party members going to court to try and extend leadership race

CTV News: Alberta Premier threatens to turn off oil taps in B.C. dispute

John Ivison - National Post: Trudeau's blunder-filled India trip sinks Liberals in the polls; Trudeau’s personal popularity has dropped from 47% to 39% in the last month, while negative impressions rose from 31% to 38%

Toronto Star: Tories stick to Saturday for leadership results despite some candidates’ complaints

CBC: Ottawa rejects bid by all 13 Nova Scotia First Nations partnering with Clearwater Seafoods for clam quota; Clearwater had long held the quota; gives instead to undefined coalition partnering with Premium Seafoods

Globe and Mail: Ontario heading back into deficit in pre-election budget

Reuters: Canada, Mexico will be temporarily exempted from U.S. metals tariffs: Washington Post

CBC: Loonie wobbles as Bank of Canada cites trade fears in interest rate decision; Bank's statement also mentions housing slowdown in decision to leave key rate unchanged

David Reevely - Ottawa Citizen: As the PCs' leadership race gets ugly, Mulroney's ideas are worth a look

CBC: Requirement to tell foster kids Easter Bunny is real violated couple's charter rights: court

National Post: Trump's tariffs will hit Canada nearly five times harder than China, the apparent target; raise NAFTA stakes for hapless Liberals, put hundreds of thousands of jobs at risk

CBC: Ottawa Public Health urges ban on pot smoking in condos, apartments, on balconies; also urging province to outlaw smoking, vaping in outdoor designated areas, hotels

updated CBC: SIU investigating after high-speed crash in Napanee claims life of innocent Florence Wyatt-Morris, 88, while police chasing SUV

CBC: BlackBerry files patent infringement suit against Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp

Christie Blatchford - National Post: More Liberal gaffes uncovered from Trudeau's not so excellent India visit

Toronto Star: Scheer off to London with sights set on Canada-UK free trade deal

CBC: GTA home sales down 35% from February 2017, selling prices also dropped more than 12%, Toronto Real Estate Board reports

CBC: Ontario to bring in 'pay transparency' bill aimed at closing gender wage gap; pay transparency measures will begin with Ontario public service before applying to large employers

Global News: Donald Trump warns Canada won’t get a break on steel tariffs without ‘fair’ NAFTA deal; says 'walk the talk' or 'just walk'

CBC: Court orders investigation of $3B Sears payout; pensioners hope to recoup money they say has been missing since company went bankrupt

Politico: Lighthizer warns NAFTA could be split into separate deals with Canada and Mexico if tripartite agreement unreachable

Global News: Doug Ford calls for Ontario PC Party leadership voting to be extended, use of paper ballots; tactic or real concern?

Toronto Star: Toronto police release photo of 7th suspected victim in Bruce McArthur case

CBC: Canadian dollar dips below 77 cents U.S. on trade worries; loonie has steadily slid lower as protectionist trade talk has begun to overshadow NAFTA negotiations; Liberals overlooked Trump card?

CP24: $100K Hamilton vandalism spree was ‘not a spontaneous act’

CBC: Kenney threatens to stop flow of oil to B.C., put toll on natural gas; 'If the NDP in Victoria breaks the law, and blocks the export of our major product, we have to respond'

Vancouver Sun: CRA rapped as Nanaimo couple awarded $1M in damages arising from malicious prosecution

CBC: Burns Lake residents say shocked at sex-related allegations against B.C. Liberal Party membership chair, and former local mayor

Huffington Post: Brian Jean, ex-Wildrose Party leader, quits Alberta Legislature

CBC: Toronto police make grisly discovery of 7th set of human remains in Bruce McArthur's planters

Hill Times: Trudeau’s image takes biggest hit since 2015 on India trip, goes from ‘golden boy’ to a ‘bit of a joke,’ say politicos

UPI: Made in Canada, 'Shape of Water' wins 4 Oscars, including Best Picture

Irina Slav - Oilprice: Canada’s oil crisis continues to worsen

Joe Warminton - Toronto Sun: 'We are the Ungovernables': Masked mob vandalize Hamilton; were some of G20-level thugs in town for 'Anarchist Book Fair' inexplicably hosted by Hamilton high school? Quebec licence plate link?

Toronto Star: As we watch Amazon, its ‘HQ2’ decision-makers are watching us

Halifax Chronicle Herald: White House gets pressure from within U.S. to spare Canada from steel and aluminum tariffs

CTV News: Morneau finally says Canada 'prepared to react' against U.S. tariffs if necessary

iPolitics: B.C. Liberal MP now says he didn’t invite Atwal

Toronto Star: Freight train derailment east of Kingston causes major passenger delays

CTV News: Ontario Tories extend deadline to verify eligibility to vote in leadership race

Candice Malcolm - Toronto Sun: New video casts doubt on Trudeau's version of Atwal scandal

Global News: Justin Trudeau would lose if an election were held tomorrow, India trip a symptom of shift in mood: Ipsos poll

Toronto Star: Mulroney says it’s time for a generational change at Queen’s Park

Hank Daniszewski - London Free Press: Progressive Conservative leadership earthquake shakes local bedrock

Global News: Special weather statement issued for Toronto due to snowfall Thursday night

Miami - ABC News: RCAF life raft drops off helicopter, falls through roof of Miami house, injuring woman

Tim Harper - Toronto Star: On the India fiasco, Trudeau is looking for blame in all the wrong places

London Free Press: Plight of ailing London man in Mexico sparks Queen's Park debate

Global News: London, Ontario man stranded in Mexico hospital due to lack of available Ontario hospital beds

Globe and Mail: Conservative MP ‘chased down’ Jaspal Atwal after assassination attempt in 1986 when he was a Mountie

Bloc buster? Montreal Gazette: Bloc Québécois blows up as seven of 10 MPs quit to sit as independents

Global News: Taxpayers to shell out $605M for June G7 meeting in Quebec

Toronto Star: Caroline Mulroney has raked in $700K in her bid to succeed Patrick Brown

Lorne Gunter - Toronto Sun: Federal budget ignores big items while pandering on gender issues

Andrew Coyne - National Post: The Liberals deliver a federal budget that has nothing to do with budgeting, or the economy

CBC: Families celebrating $81M in budget to fix the no-fly list system

Anthony Furey - Toronto Sun: Trudeau Liberals just tabled Canada's first full-blown social justice budget

CTV News: Ontario PC leadership candidates race face off in second debate in Ottawa

Adrian Morrow - Globe and Mail: Blame Canada: Trump paints us as suave international swindlers

Edmonton Sun: City council approves permanent closure of Coliseum

National Post: Convicted Liberal aide stops short of apologizing for crime in Ontario gas plants scandal

CBC: New hornet's next; Passive investment income tax changes target only richest corporations, Morneau says

CHCH: Nanticoke station’s landmark twin chimneys to be demolished Wednesday

Toronto Star: Groups urge independent review of missing persons cases in wake of Bruce McArthur charges

India Today: Justin Trudeau blames Indian elements for Khalistani Jaspal Atwal, India says baseless

Terry Glavin - Macleans: How Trudeau’s top national security advisor lost the plot in India

CTV News: Bus passengers describe terrifying scene after pile-up on B.C. highway

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