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Wed, 27 Oct 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Women take charge of key portfolios in Justin Trudeau's new cabinet
For the first time in Canada's history, women will lead each of the departments of Finance, Foreign Affairs and Defence.

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 19:13:14 EDT
Yukon premier says shooting in town of Faro left 'multiple victims'
Yukon Premier Sandy Silver says there are multiple victims after RCMP responded to reports of an active shooter in the town of Faro Tuesday afternoon, but there is no longer a safety threat to the c...

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Canada's difficult road to reaching its 2030 climate goal as another global conference nears
To meet goals set at past UN climate conferences, as well as the federal government's own emissions targets, considerable change is necessary. What's clear is that meeting current climate goals in Can...

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Canada at COP26: A time for leadership
The upcoming UN conference provides a unique opportunity for Canada to become a world leader in climate policy, writes Thomas Gunton, the director of the Resource and Environmental Planning program at...

Wed, 27 Oct 2021 04:00:00 EDT
100 days to Beijing, Canadian Olympians are kicking it into high gear
Hundreds of Canadian Olympic hopefuls have begun competing on rinks, mountains and icy tracks looking to earn the right to wear the Maple Leaf in Beijing. The next three months will decide the fates o...

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 22:02:13 EDT
B.C. auditor general highlights $6B budget dispute with government
British Columbia's auditor general says he has a decade-long difference of opinion with the government over calculating the province's financial bottom line that now adds up to $6 billion. ...

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 08:56:40 EDT
Anand to Defence, Joly to Foreign Affairs: Trudeau announces major cabinet shakeup
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is kicking off his third mandate with a monumental shift in his cabinet lineup that makes significant changes to senior portfolios.

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:59:02 EDT
Greg Fertuck's girlfriend tells court that he confessed to killing estranged wife hours after alleged crime​
Greg Fertuck drunkenly admitted to killing his wife Sheree on Dec. 7, 2015 — just hours after the crime allegedly happened —  according to his girlfriend at the time. 

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 21:33:35 EDT
Edward Rogers claims he had family's backing to oust CEO — but mother and sister say no
Edward Rogers says his bid to oust the CEO of the telecom conglomerate his father founded had the support of other members of his family, before they changed their mind.

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 18:13:05 EDT
From COVID-19 to possible boycott, Beijing 2022 brings a new experience for athletes
Every Olympics is different. It’s a refrain echoed by many, but it’s also truer than ever with Beijing 2022 set to be contested in February amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and murmurs of a boyc...

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 17:01:42 EDT
Gatineau man charged with selling fake vaccine passports in Ontario, Quebec
The 27-year-old was arrested Monday and faces nine charges, including forgery and laundering proceeds of a crime, Ottawa police say.

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 16:29:20 EDT
Long-term care home in London, Ont., charged for unsafe work conditions after nurse's COVID-19 death
A London nursing home faces charges under the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act for unsafe working conditions early into the pandemic, after a registered nurse died from COVID-19 and many oth...

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 15:34:57 EDT
GM to install 4,000 electric car charging stations across Canada
General Motors plans to install 4,000 charging stations in Canada as part of a push by the car maker to invest more heavily into electric vehicles.

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 11:46:03 EDT
Elections Alberta posted incorrect information on equalization referendum, law experts say
Constitutional law experts say Elections Alberta posted incorrect information about equalization on its website in advance of the recent referendum that may have misled voters about what effect a yes ...

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 12:10:34 EDT
Rogers drama shows how owning a company is not the same thing as controlling it
A type of corporate equity structure used by several of Canada's most prominent companies is once again under fire from critics in light of the current chaos at Rogers Communications Inc. ...

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 18:03:29 EDT
'Representation really does matter,' says Whitehorse's 1st Indigenous city councillor in decades
Michelle Friesen is still taking it all in — her election last week as one of Whitehorse's new city councillors, and the fact that she'll be the city's first Indigenous councillor in a generation. ...

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 04:00:54 EDT
Facing sky-high connection fees, rural Ontarians go off the grid
When Craig Timmermans set out to build a new headquarters for his companies in northern Ontario, he reached out to the power company to find out how much it would charge him to connect to the grid. H...

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Eyre blames sexual misconduct crisis, pandemic for shrinking military
It could take up to seven years for the Canadian military's recruitment efforts to recover from the fallout of both the sexual misconduct crisis and the pandemic, says the country’s acting chief ...

Tue, 26 Oct 2021 04:00:00 EDT
Funeral homes pivot to offer rooms for medically assisted deaths
Some funeral homes are pivoting to meet increasing demands for a new kind of service: Providing a place where clients can have a medically assisted death surrounded by loved ones but away from their o...

Mon, 25 Oct 2021 17:26:28 EDT
The world is supposed to share the cost of fighting climate change. Here's how that works
One of the key tenets of the 2015 Paris Agreement was that richer countries such as Canada would provide financial assistance to developing countries to help them achieve their climate targets. We tak...



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