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After immigrating from Pakistan to Toronto in July 2001 in hopes of building a better life and future, Mirways Babakarkhail worked odd jobs at factories and moving companies.But his visits to friends who lived in Hamilton and worked in Jackson Square mall changed the Afghan man's life.People came up to him ...

The government of India is denying allegations that it interfered in the last two Canadian elections.Documents from Canada's spy agency, made public at the inquiry looking into foreign interference in Canadian elections, named India and Pakistan as two governments involved in attempts to influence the 2019 and 2021 votes."We strongly reject ...

A couple in an affluent midtown Toronto neighbourhood is asking the city to remove the heritage designation from their century home because they say the original owner was racist. The two-and-a-half storey, 9,000-square foot house in the Yonge and St. Clair area, was built in 1906 for Stapleton Pitt Caldecott, a former ...

Independent MP Han Dong told the Foreign Interference Commission Tuesday that he only ever advocated for the well-being of Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor and would like to return to the Liberal Party.Last year, the Don Valley North MP announced he would sit as an Independent after Global News published ...

A mysterious writer making propaganda for an Afghan branch of ISIS claimed to be based somewhere in Canada which, experts say, could be cause for concern for authorities. Voice of Khurasan, an online publication used by the Islamic State of Khorasan (ISIS-K), which is suspected of being behind the Moscow attack ...

12:36Amrit Kaur lands her first leading film role in the queer, Bollywood-inspired The Queen of My DreamsFor Fawzia Mirza, making The Queen of My Dreams her feature film debut was cathartic."It saved my life," said the writer-director.The film, which began its life as an art installation and then a ...

"A year later, we still feel shock and disbelief that this has happened and our son has been taken from us," said Randy Sears.Sitting next to his wife Beth in their New Brunswick home, Sears can't help but get worked up. He says he continues to feel a myriad ...

For some Israeli politicians, the United Nations has a troubling fixation on their country.A bias, some claim, has revealed itself particularly prominently in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel. Those attacks claimed the lives of around 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials, and prompted Israel to launch a ground and ...

Warning: This story contains distressing details.Superior Court Justice Renee Pomerance refused to say Nathaniel Veltman's name, but said his actions on June 6, 2021, when he deliberately drove his truck into the Afzaal family in London, Ont., were terrorism as defined under Canadian law. "I have chosen not to name the ...

The timeline for heart disease is sped up in people of South Asian ethnicity, and part of the answer for why may lie with faulty repairs to blood vessel damage, a new Canadian study suggests.Cardiovascular disease affects the heart and blood vessels and can lead to the need for bypass surgery and ...