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As the 988 national suicide prevention helpline marks its one-year anniversary, the three-digit helpline is making a difference in helping to prevent suicides, experts say.

Laurence Miall moved back to Edmonton with his family, but someone very important was missing. His father was thousands of kilometres away in France, battling Parkinson's disease.

The Investigative Journalism Foundation (IJF) analyzed social media advertising over the last year to see who is echoing Poilievre's "axe the tax" mantra. Apart from politicians and political parties, the biggest spender is an outfit most Canadians have never heard of.

A Thunder Bay woman says her ex-partner was charged after allegedly trying to strangle her on three occasions, but the court case was stayed due to a lack of evidence. Now, she's urging Ontario to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic, as several other provinces have. As an Ontario committee studies the bill, advocates say the problem is getting worse as a backlog of criminal court cases grows.

Bearspaw First Nation in southern Alberta is suing the federal government for $1 billion in a proposed class-action lawsuit, the latest in a series of lawsuits arguing that annual payments promised in treaties should have been adjusted for inflation.

The oilpatch is reacting to Donald Trump’s threats to impose a 25 per cent tariff on Canadian goods with a mix of concern and skepticism. The tariff would be devastating to the industry, experts say, though some speculate the threat is just an opening salvo in a broader negotiation.

Canadian political leaders cannot stop Donald Trump from making threats. But Canadian political leaders can control how they respond to those threats and actions. And Canadians can judge how serious those responses are.