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Forced labor? How the U.S. found a brand new rationale for tariffs | About That

Forced labor? How the U.S. found a brand new rationale for tariffs | About That

The Trump administration is imposing new tariffs on more than 60 countries to penalize them for importing products that use forced labour. Andrew Chang explains how these ‘stealth tariffs’ may be a new way for the United States to merge a contested economic agenda with moral policy.

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Ontario spent $465M more on OSAP last year. 95% of that went to private career college students, docs show

Ontario spent $465M more on OSAP last year. 95% of that went to private career college students, docs show

When Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government drastically cut student assistance grants earlier this year, it cited “unsustainable” costs, but new figures show nearly all of the recent growth was among career college students. Opposition critics say that points to a problem of the government’s own making, and the solution did not have to penalize students at universities and publicly funded colleges.

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Should you stay or should you go? Canadians reconsider Cuba travel plans after advisory
Star

February 4, 2026

Should you stay or should you go? Canadians reconsider Cuba travel plans after advisory

Ask the travellers who keep going year after year, and…

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Ontario/Quebec

February 4, 2026

Jordan Omstead

Why a turtle die-off has this Ottawa researcher worried about warming winters

Grégory Bulté was snorkelling in the cold waters of Ontario’s…

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Business, Health, Ontario/Quebec, Social

February 4, 2026

Maan Alhmidi

Medical staff leave Kashechewan First Nation as parasite contaminates water

Medical staff have left a northern Ontario First Nation that…

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Justice, Ontario/Quebec

February 4, 2026

Teen charged with second-degree murder in death of infant in Port Rowan, Ont: police

PORT ROWAN — A teenager has been charged with murder…

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Business, Construction, Economy, Real Estate

February 4, 2026

Ian Bickis

Greater Toronto home sales, prices slide in January with more weakness ahead: TRREB

TORONTO — Greater Toronto Area home sales and price weakness…

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Sports

February 4, 2026

Hamilton Tiger-Cats sign veteran CFL middle linebacker Wynton McManis

HAMILTON — Wynton McManis wasn’t unemployed long. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats…

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Sports

February 4, 2026

Gemma Karstens-Smith

‘We were really starting to click there’: Leafs enter Olympic break on win streak

EDMONTON — Matthew Knies is of two minds when it…

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Mother of missing N.S. children ‘taking it day by day,’ say loved ones
Star

February 4, 2026

Mother of missing N.S. children ‘taking it day by day,’ say loved ones

Nine months after Lilly and Jack Sullivan vanished without a…

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Inside the Quebec YMCA offering transitional housing to homeless people after hospital stay
Star

February 4, 2026

Inside the Quebec YMCA offering transitional housing to homeless people after hospital stay

The YMCA and CIUSSS du Centre-Ouest-de-l’Île-de-Montréal launched “A Pathway to…

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