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Toronto is experiencing a car theft epidemic

Business, Finance & Economics

Residents of Toronto, Canada, are scrambling to protect their cars from an epidemic of car theft. Many are simultaneously installing tire clamps, steering locks, burglar alarms and steel bollards in their driveway, but have their cars stolen anyway. Thefts increased by 40% last year as Anita Elash reports from Toronto.

Migrants say crossing Mexico has become increasingly challenging

Migration
The Red Dress night honored murdered and missing Indigenous women, and girls, Two Spirit and LGBTQ+ people in Canada and worldwide.

They call her a ‘Mountain Mover’ — Founder of Vancouver Indigenous Fashion Week revolutionizes the runway

Fashion
A group of runners carrying staffs and smile for a group shot

‘Spirit Run’: A new memoir details one man’s journey to reconnect with nature and his Indigenous heritage

Books
With Canadian and Haitian flags hoisted, marchers take part in demonstration in support of asylum-seekers working in Quebec's long-term care homes in Montreal, Canada, in June.

Canada is granting residency to some asylum-seekers working in pandemic health care

Immigration
A group of dairy cows stand in a caged area inside a farm

Can this radical approach to dairies save US farms?

Canada’s practice of limiting milk production ensures a stable market for its dairy farmers. It’s also being touted as a potential solution to the US dairy crisis.

Children stand next to a banner against the US President's proposed end of the DACA program

Thousands of immigrants with ‘protected status’ face possible deportation

Justice

Trump administration deciding fate of those allowed in years ago due to war, natural disasters.

Protesters gather to rally against US President Donald Trump's firing of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey, outside the White House in Washington, DC. May 10, 2017.

Trump says he will make ‘fast decision’ on Comey replacement

Justice

President Donald Trump said Saturday he would act quickly to appoint a new FBI director following his controversial dismissal earlier this week of James Comey — a move that was still reverberating around Washington.

Protesters gather to rally against U.S. President Donald Trump's firing of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey, outside the White House in Washington, U.S. May 10, 2017.

Trump firing Comey: ‘It helps every authoritarian in the world’

Global Politics

Journalists and academics across the globe see alarming parallels between the US and deeply troubled countries whose leaders go after those who investigate them.

A protester rallies during the US House vote on the American Health Care Act, which repeals major parts of the 2000 Affordable Care Act know as Obamacare. Capitol Hill in Washington, US, May 4, 2017.

US House passes Obamacare repeal in win for Trump

Conflict

The House of Representatives voted Thursday to pass the Republican repeal of Obamacare.