14 h. ago SATURDAY RECAP: Campaign pluses and minuses, advance poll record

Follow the Toronto Sun’s live coverage of Canada’s 45th general election and tariff-related news, with contributions from Brian Lilley, Bryan Passifiume, Lorrie Goldstein and columnists Joe Warmington and Warren Kinsella, as well as contributions from the Sun’s editors and reporters covering the election ahead of the April 28 vote. Plus, you can find all of […]

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19 h. ago Federal Election 2025: Jagmeet Singh and Pierre Poilievre campaign in Metro Vancouver Saturday

New Democrat leader Jagmeet Singh attends Canada's largest Vaisakhi parade in Surrey while Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre in Richmond announces plans to give judges more powers to sentence drug offenders.

Politics

19 h. ago Federal Conservative leader proposes letting judges order drug treatment for addiction

Poilievre is in Richmond, B.C. on Saturday expanding on his plans to tackle addiction in Canada.

Politics

22 h. ago GOLDSTEIN: How mercy to the guilty became cruelty to the innocent in Canada

Poilievre would have to invoke the notwithstanding clause to give judges the option of imposing consecutive life sentences on multiple and mass murderers

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40 h. ago Judge to allow ‘bushy eyebrows’ testimony in Bryan Kohberger’s quadruple murder trial

BOISE, Idaho — A judge says a former roommate of four University of Idaho students who were killed in 2022 can testify about seeing an intruder with “bushy eyebrows” around the time of the crime. Defense attorneys for Bryan Kohberger had asked 4th District Judge Steven Hippler during a hearing earlier this month to bar […]

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40 h. ago Colorado man gets life for killing wife after posing as ex and stalking her

DENVER — A Colorado man was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Friday for the murder of his wife after stalking her while posing as an ex-boyfriend. The mandatory sentence came a day after jurors found Daniel Krug, 44, guilty of first-degree murder, criminal impersonation and stalking. With his marriage […]

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43 h. ago Judge pauses Trump administration’s plans for mass layoffs at Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s attempt to fire nearly everyone at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was paused on Friday by a federal judge, who said she was “deeply concerned” about the plan. The decision leaves in limbo a bureau created after the Great Recession to safeguard against fraud, abuse and deceptive practices. Trump […]

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43 h. ago Judge denies Sean ’Diddy’ Combs’ request to delay May 5 trial

NEW YORK — The sex trafficking trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs will proceed as scheduled in early May despite his lawyer’s claims that they need an extra two months to prepare, a judge said Friday. Judge Arun Subramanian said at a Manhattan federal court hearing that the hip-hop mogul’s trial, projected to last from eight […]

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45 h. ago U.S. citizen held for pickup by ICE even after proving he was born in America

MIAMI — A U.S. citizen was arrested in Florida for allegedly being in the country illegally and held for pickup by immigration authorities even after his mother showed a judge her son’s birth certificate and the judge dismissed charges. The man was released after his case received widespread coverage. Juan Carlos Lopez Gomez, 20, was […]

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45 h. ago Federal judge pausing Trump administration’s plans for mass layoffs at CFPB

WASHINGTON — A federal judge who blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ruled Friday that the bureau can’t go forward immediately with plans to mass fire hundreds of employees. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said she is “deeply concerned” that Trump administration officials aren’t complying with her earlier […]

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46 h. ago Janitors at Surrey's Sunrise Poultry fired for 'time theft' but company can't sue

B.C. Supreme Court judge rules companies with union contracts must settle disputes grievance process and the Labour Board

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48 h. ago Google is twice a monopolist. Fixing it will be the hard part

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has been found by two federal judges, in less than a year, to have illegally monopolized critical parts of the internet. Now the U.S. Justice Department will likely push for the company to make sweeping changes to its advertising business. That includes forcing the sale of key technology including the ad exchange […]

Culture

62 h. ago UnitedHealthcare CEO killing suspect Mangione indicted on death penalty

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione was indicted Thursday on a federal murder charge in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a necessary step for prosecutors to seek the death penalty. The indictment returned by a grand jury in Manhattan federal court also charges Mangione with two counts of stalking and a firearms count. It […]

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63 h. ago MANDEL: ‘System in shambles’ lets alleged careless driver who killed pedestrian walk

There will be no kind of justice for an elderly pedestrian hit and killed by a vehicle just over 18 months ago in Toronto. An alleged careless driver accused of killing the man has had his charges stayed because it took too long to get to trial in provincial offences court. And Justice of the […]

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63 h. ago Judge rules Frank Stronach sex crimes case can advance to trial

Stronach’s lawyer, Leora Shemesh, was unfazed by the decision, saying she was 'extremely happy' with how the case is unfolding

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64 h. ago Frank Stronach committed to stand trial after preliminary inquiry into two charges

An Ontario court has committed billionaire businessman Frank Stronach to stand trial on two charges related to two complainants as part of his Toronto sexual assault case. Ontario Court Justice Jacqueline Freeman made the ruling at the end of a preliminary inquiry that dealt exclusively with those two charges, which court has heard were the […]

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65 h. ago Dozens more possible jurors screened in Harvey Weinstein retrial

NEW YORK — Dozens more people were screened Thursday as potential jurors for Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape retrial as the selection process neared its end for the week. The panel started taking shape Wednesday, when five women and four men were picked for the redo of the landmark #MeToo-era trial. They were chosen after […]

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66 h. ago Crown suggests murder suspect was out to kill escort when he turned his deadly intent to pretty passerby

The perceived snubbing by a beautiful woman turned murder suspect Michael Adenyi’s attention towards her, a prosecutor suggested Thursday. And Crown lawyer Carla MacPhail said Adenyi was heading out to rape and murder an escort when a confident and beautiful Vanessa Ladouceur passed him without noticing him. But Adenyi denied he killed Ladouceur out of […]

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67 h. ago Accused's violent poem entered as evidence at drug dealer murder trial

Ashley Bourget called her poem “Small Child” – but it contained a big, glaring comment that kept it out of a jailhouse poetry-writing competition. Instead, her creative writing from October 2023 while she was behind bars became evidence at her first-degree murder trial in the death of high-level drug dealer Grant Norton. “Now that I’m […]

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68 h. ago Killer who strangled Edmonton woman, hid body in carpet sentenced to 10

Telling him he must spend the rest of his life making amends, a judge sentenced a man who strangled a young Edmonton woman in a random attack to 10-1/2 years in prison. Court of King’s Bench Justice Jody Fraser on Thursday passed sentence on 34-year-old Ryan Farrell, who pleaded guilty Wednesday to manslaughter for the […]

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