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Retraité. Aimes voyager. Go Blue Jays Go. Fier d’être Québécois et Canadien Francophone.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Retired. Love to travel. Raptors are gone, now’s the time for our Toronto Blue Jays and Tempo. Proud to be a Quebecer and French Canadian.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

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Radio Canada International

Après les recommandations du Bureau du coroner et du gouvernement provincial, le Centre antipoison du Québec appuie l’avis d’exclure de la vente libre la diphénhydramine, dont le Bénadryl, en raison d'une hausse des intoxications à ce produit dans la province. ici.radio-canada.ca/rci/fr/nouve...

Le Bénadryl dans la mire du Centre antipoison du Québec | RCIL’organisme souhaite renverser la tendance à la hausse des intoxications à ce produit au Québec.ici.radio-canada.ca
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JeffTrnka

Trump says he doesn't care about CUSMA as Dominic LeBlanc returns to D.C. for trade talks. "Canada needs us, we don't need them," Trump tells Fox News. If this is the case, switch off the Hydro, stop Potash & oil sales, cut off rare earth sales @mark-carney.bsky.social. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Trump says he doesn't care about CUSMA | CBC NewsCanada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc is back in Washington this week where he's continuing his search for a breakthrough in trade negotiations with the U.S. administration.www.cbc.ca
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EUwatch 🇪🇺

Google rivals line up seeking damages after record $1 billion EU fine

Google rivals line up seeking damages after record $1 billion EU fineA decades-long crackdown on Google’s business practices in Europe is entering a costly new phase, as the loss of the first case brought against it under new EU legislation opens the ​door to a wave of private lawsuits demanding up to $10 billion in damages. Having already absorbed billions of dollars in EU fines since 2017, Alphabet’s search giant is now ‌facing lawsuits from smaller rivals across Europe, according to half a dozen lawyers and litigation financiers, and a tally of cases filed in half a dozen countries. That has been precipitated by a $1 billion fine, the first under the Digital Markets Act, imposed on the company for favouring its own services and preventing app developers from steering users to cheaper options outside its app store Google Play. Google hit with $1 billion EU fine, in ‘constructive’ talks to avoid more penalties That finding of ongoing wrongdoing may embolden more parties to sue, lawyers say. “I think ​this will trigger a new wave of litigation,” said Thomas Hoppner, a partner at Geradin Partners, which advised German price comparison platform Idealo for market abuse. A Berlin court in November awarded ​Idealo €465 million ($528.9 million) in damages, the biggest fine ever awarded by a court in Germany for an antitrust infringement. Specialised search firms “may seek damages, possibly not ⁠just for the period of the DMA but also for the years prior to the DMA breaches” under Article 102, Hoppner added, referring to older EU legislation prohibiting companies from abusing a dominant ​market position. Google said there is no merit in the claims. “We strongly disagree with these lawsuits, which are brought by companies looking for a payout instead of investing in their own products,” a Google spokesperson ​said. Shopping around The damages claims come as Google’s AI spending spree has left it burning cash, with Alphabet’s free cash flow negative in the second quarter for the first time as a public company. Tech and chip stocks are under pressure as investors question lofty valuations amid concerns over booming AI infrastructure spending. The cases also come on top of €10.4 billion EU-led fines on Google over the last decade as regulators take a harsh stance on Big Tech. The private cases are at different stages, ​and more are being prepared and yet to be filed, according to lawyers and litigation financing firms. When Google started pushing its own comparison shopping service in search results in 2008, traffic to rival ​price comparison sites plunged, triggering complaints and an EU probe that produced a €2.42 billion fine in 2017. Google fought the ruling before losing at Europe’s top court last year. Britain’s Foundem pursued its claim from the start. Sweden’s PriceRunner, ‌backed by Klarna, ⁠filed a multibillion-dollar suit in 2022 after Google’s appeal was rejected. UK price comparison site Kelkoo, which is seeking billions of pounds from Google in various damages claims after the EU decision against Google’s shopping service, said the latest EU fines could boost ongoing claims. “We expect these to be impacted somewhat by the DMA decision because it shows that Google is still self-referencing even to this day,” Kelkoo CEO Richard Stables told Reuters, adding the DMA decision gave others more ground to sue. Matej Pardo, chief operating officer at litigation financing firm LitFin, which is backing two groups suing Google in Amsterdam for its shopping ​auctions, seeking over $1 billion combined, echoed the sentiment. “There are ​already a lot of these claims being ⁠filed, and probably more that are (being) prepared,” he said. Italy’s Moltiply Group, which operates price comparison website Trovaprezzi.it, is seeking €2.97 billion. More fines, more claims Google’s fines last week were the fifth and sixth overall for anti-competitive practices. Last month, Google lost a long-running fight against a record €4.1 billion EU fine for using its Android ​mobile operating system to block rivals. Marco Pescarmona, chairman of Moltiply Group, one of the complainants against Google, said the recent DMA decision will bolster ​damage claims, though he questions ⁠Brussels’ willingness to fully use the law to eradicate self-favouring if non-compliance continues. “The DMA is a very good piece of legislation. The defect maybe is that it’s so effective that they’re afraid to use it,” he said. Google, meanwhile, is counting on time working in its favour, lawyers said, given cases can drag on for years. It may yet challenge the fine imposed under the DMA. In the shopping suit, nearly two decades passed ⁠between the alleged ​abuses and Google’s exhausted appeals. “By that time, they’ve already monopolised many markets,” said LitFin’s Pardo, calling the fines “a cost of ​doing business”, adding wait times could be up to eight years. In the PriceRunner case, a Stockholm court in July ordered Google to pay roughly $1.97 billion including interest – a ruling Klarna welcomed, but does not expect to collect on soon. “We can expect an ​appeal to take over a year, and likely years,” Klarna’s counsel Pontus Scherp said. With Reuters Caption: A Google logo signage is on display at the company’s headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA, 23 July 2026. The European Commission fined Google a total of 890 million euros for breaching the Digital Markets Act by favoring its own services in Google Search and restricting app developers from directing users to alternative purchase channels outside Google Play. EPA/GODOFREDO A. VASQUEZeualive.net
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Building Canada strong from playground to podium — Government of Canada makes major investments in Alberta—up to $33.6 million in key sport infrastructure projects. www.canada.ca/en/housing-i...

Building Canada strong from playground to podium — Government of Canada makes major investments in Alberta - Canada.caThe Government of Canada is Building Canada Strong through sport. From playground to podium, we are investing in communities, supporting athletes and uniting Canadians, because sport is the ultimate n...www.canada.ca
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