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'Betrayal': 10 years in prison for Calgary man in multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme

'Betrayal': 10 years in prison for Calgary man in multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme

CALGARY — A Calgary man who bilked his clients out of millions of dollars in a Ponzi scheme was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison and ordered to pay $3.1 million in restitution for what the judge called a "deliberate and large-scale" fraud.
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'It's bad': Opioids killed more Ontarians in second year of pandemic than first

'It's bad': Opioids killed more Ontarians in second year of pandemic than first

TORONTO — Opioids killed more people in Ontario in the second year of the pandemic compared to the first, but the province saw a drop in those deaths this past March, newly released data shows.
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Mexico crushes Canada 10-0 at Little League World Series

Mexico crushes Canada 10-0 at Little League World Series

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — A site of many historic battles over the years, Matamoros calls itself the city of the undefeated, loyal and heroic.
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Trudeau questions business case for natural gas exports from Canada to Europe

Trudeau questions business case for natural gas exports from Canada to Europe

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the government is open to easing regulatory requirements for projects that would facilitate the export of Canadian natural gas to Europe, but questioned whether a business case exists for such investments.
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Famous Yousuf Karsh portrait of Sir Winston Churchill stolen from Château Laurier

Famous Yousuf Karsh portrait of Sir Winston Churchill stolen from Château Laurier

OTTAWA — It sounds like a caper from a movie: a thief seems to have swapped out the famous portrait of a scowling Sir Winston Churchill, photographed by Yousuf Karsh in 1941, with a signed copy.
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Ontario, Maritimes premiers meet to talk health care but offer no details, solutions

Ontario, Maritimes premiers meet to talk health care but offer no details, solutions

MONCTON, N.B. — A "Team Canada" approach is needed to fix the country's health-care problems, the premiers of the Maritimes and Ontario said Monday, but they offered no specifics.
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Feds cut funding for anti-racism project over 'reprehensible and vile' tweets

Feds cut funding for anti-racism project over 'reprehensible and vile' tweets

OTTAWA — Diversity Minister Ahmed Hussen has ordered the government to cut funding to an anti-racism initiative over "reprehensible and vile" tweets by a senior consultant on the project.
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Canada buys up millions more doses of Moderna's bivalent COVID-19 vaccine

Canada buys up millions more doses of Moderna's bivalent COVID-19 vaccine

OTTAWA — The federal government has purchased a total of 12 million doses of Moderna's bivalent vaccine that targets both the original strain of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant.
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Fauci to step down after decades as top US infection expert

Fauci to step down after decades as top US infection expert

WASHINGTON (AP) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert who became a household name during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday he will leave the federal government in December after more than five decades
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CTV alum Lloyd Robertson: 'LaFlamme held on to her integrity'

CTV alum Lloyd Robertson: 'LaFlamme held on to her integrity'

Stratford native and retired news anchor Lloyd Robertson commented on the immense controversy surrounding the departure of CTV news anchor Lisa LaFlamme at a panel he moderated on Saturday at Tom Patterson Theatre. Robertson served in the same role at the same network before LaFlamme took over. The Stratford native went on to compare LaFlamme to Shakespeare's Cordelia from King Lear, noting she held on to her integrity, despite the circumstances
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