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• Alberta announces next step in high-speed rail plan to connect Edmonton, Calgary

  29-09-2026 00:30 via globalnews.ca
  
  Premier Danielle Smith says Ottawa has agreed to refer the project to its major projects office once a proponent has been selected.
  
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• Judge holds decision on Saskatoon encampment injunction

  29-09-2026 16:59 via globalnews.ca
  
  Justice Richard Danyliuk says a decision will need to come "swiftly" after the city paused initiatives to clear encampments from its west end late last week when met with protest.
  
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• Quebec candidates have less than a week to make pitches as election day nears

  29-09-2026 16:02 via globalnews.ca
  
  Talk of possible U.S. interference in the Quebec election continues to swirl going into the final week of the campaign, with six days left.
  
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• Constitutional challenge of activists’ trafficking convictions to get ruling Tuesday

  29-09-2026 15:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  Jeremy Kalicum and Eris Nyx founded the compassion club know as the Drug User Liberation Front and were found guilty last year after Vancouver police raided the club in 2023. 
  
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• Province and feds extending affordable child-care program in Ontario, but fees stay the same

  29-09-2026 15:51 via cbc.ca
  
  Ontario and the federal government have agreed to extend the national affordable child-care program in the province for another four years, but it may not live up to its signature goal — lowering parent fees to an average of $10 a day.
  
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• BC Conservative turned NDP Amelia Boultbee won’t run for re-election

  29-09-2026 15:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  Boultbee says she would have liked to continue as legislator, but "politics is hard and it's not always fair" in framing her decision.
  
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• ‘Radicalized’ subculture found among Montreal officers, internal police documents show

  29-09-2026 15:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  The documents include a copy of Dagher's presentation to the municipal committee and draft speaking notes describing how police handled the incident at the Montréal-Nord station.
  
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• Manitoba PCs look for new leader as MLAs return for fall sitting

  29-09-2026 15:19 via globalnews.ca
  
  The move leaves the Tories with 19 seats in the house, compared with 34 for Premier Wab Kinew's NDP, one Liberal and, with Khan, now three Independents.
  
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• Ontario’s affordable child-care program extended, but not to $10 a day

  29-09-2026 15:11 via globalnews.ca
  
  The province is one of only two, including Alberta, that had not reached longer-term deals beyond the program's initial five years.
  
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• New tool measures real-world impacts of fossil fuel projects like N.L's Bay du Nord

  29-09-2026 15:04 via cbc.ca
  
  Australian researchers say they've built the world's first public tool for calculating how fossil fuel developments will affect the climate, and they're using the Bay du Nord offshore oil project as a test subject.
  
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• Canada’s economy stalled in July with 0% growth, StatCan says

  29-09-2026 15:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Statistics Canada says gross domestic product growth was essentially unchanged in July after a strong second quarter for the economy.
  
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• Analysis: B.C. Conservatives get Caroline Elliott after all

  29-09-2026 14:00 via nationalpost.com
  
  The tables have turned.Four months ago, Caroline Elliott lost the B.C. Conservative leadership to Kerry-Lynne Findlay on a 51-49 fourth-ballot runoff. Findlay is gone. Elliott is now on the ballot in West Vancouver-Capilano, her North Shore turf, in the snap election Premier David Eby called for Oct. 24.“If I was ready to jump in for leadership and lead the party — and ultimately, in an ideal world, the province,” she told me early Monday, “then I should be able to step
  
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• LNG Canada expansion gets go-ahead, as Carney set to highlight 'historic investment' in Canadian energy

  29-09-2026 13:13 via cbc.ca
  
  LNG Canada says its multibillion-dollar Phase 2 expansion in Kitimat, B.C., is going forward, in a move that could double exports of liquefied natural gas from the northern coastal facility to overseas markets.
  
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• TD executive sues after being fired for adding Christian symbol to her email signature

  29-09-2026 13:00 via nationalpost.com
  
  A Christian addition to her TD Insurance email signature has cost a senior manager her $210,000-per-year job.In a statement of claim filed with the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto, Sonja Denobrega seeks more than $400,000 in damages from TD, alleging she was wrongfully dismissed after tagging “I am HIS ✝️” on to the end of her email signature in a stand against a company policy that she says “only allowed for gender/sex identification and allowed no
  
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• Inside 'Hood 420:' Bishnoi-linked gang tied to threats against B.C. radio station

  29-09-2026 13:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The main suspect in a brazen shooting and extortion campaign against an outspoken Surrey, B.C. radio station is suspected of playing an organizing role in connection with a series of Ontario extortions which resulted in more than 100 charges against 17 men earlier this year. Documents obtained by CBC News reveal the existence of a group called Hood 420, which has been linked with carrying out threats in B.C., Alberta and Ontario.
  
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• Separatist group takes motorhome to northwestern Alberta to talk independence

  29-09-2026 12:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The Let’s Talk Alberta motorhome makes a slow turn off Highway 2 into the parking lot of the Dunvegan Inn in Fairview, Alta., on a sunny mid-September morning.
  
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• Why Montreal’s most iconic landmark will fade from the city skyline for 1 year

  29-09-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  In total, about one quarter of the cross's 1,800 steel parts will be replaced. Its outdated lighting system will also be swapped out.
  
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• U.S. bans on Canadian booze hit producers on one of trade war's thorniest fronts

  29-09-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  As of Tuesday, some Canadian products, including dairy, motorcycles and alcohol, can no longer cross the border to the U.S. at all, thanks to an American import ban. It's the latest escalation in the Canada-U.S. trade war, where booze has taken centre stage.
  
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• U.S. bans on Canadian booze hit producers on one of the trade war's thorniest fronts

  29-09-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  As of Tuesday, some Canadian products, including dairy, motorcycles and alcohol can no longer cross the border to the U.S. at all thanks to an American import ban. It's the latest escalation in the Canada-U.S. trade war, where booze has taken centre stage.
  
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• Tessa Virtue says taking on dance without skates is 'terrifying' and 'invigorating'

  29-09-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Tessa Virtue, the three-time Olympic champion ice dancer, will make her stage debut — without skates — in a new solo contemporary dance performance at the Fall For Dance North Festival in Toronto.
  
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• Suddenly everyone's worried about AI wiping out humanity. But why and how would it do that? Here's what we know

  29-09-2026 10:00 via nationalpost.com
  
  It’s 2040 and after years of stunning advances, artificial intelligence is not only smarter than humans, AI agents see people as an obstacle. And proceed to eliminate everyone on Earth.It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, or once did. But the idea that AI could wipe out humanity has suddenly become impossible to ignore, as even the industry behind the technology warns of a possible apocalypse.Yet the recent alarm bells have raised perplexing questions. How, exactly, could software
  
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• Suddenly everyone's worried about AI wiping out humanity. But why and how could it do that? Here's what we know

  29-09-2026 10:00 via nationalpost.com
  
  It’s 2040 and after years of stunning advances, artificial intelligence is not only smarter than humans, AI agents see people as an obstacle. And proceed to eliminate everyone on Earth.It sounds like the stuff of science fiction, or once did. But the idea that AI could wipe out humanity has suddenly become impossible to ignore, as even the industry behind the technology warns of a possible apocalypse.Yet the recent alarm bells have raised perplexing questions. How, exactly, could software
  
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• Prescribing safer-supply drugs helps people with addictions — but also pits some doctors against each other

  29-09-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Amid police concerns over what they say is an increase in diverted prescribed opioids, some doctors are also calling for stronger rules around safer-supply prescribing. "What we have now is programs where people with active drug addictions are given drugs that they sell, and they use the money to purchase other drugs," says an Ontario physician with Addiction Medicine Canada.
  
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• Ontario investigates condo management company as investors scramble, tenants left confused

  29-09-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Ontario's condominium management regulator is investigating SIREG Management after the company told investors it could no longer guarantee rent payments, leaving some owners scrambling to collect rent directly from tenants.
  
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• Grave of boy who vanished at residential school found decades later, First Nation looks for others like him

  29-09-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The family of 11-year-old Johnny Kiyawasew, who never came home from St. Francis Xavier residential school, spent decades searching for answers. Now, Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation and the University of Alberta say they're doing extensive research to uncover the stories of other children like Johnny who went to residential school but never made it home.
  
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• Campaigns clash over use of AI in Toronto mayoral race

  29-09-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A Toronto mayoral candidate is defending his campaign’s use of artificial intelligence, but experts in the emerging technology say while it could act as an equalizer for under-resourced teams, it's no substitute for the human element of traditional voter persuasion.
  
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• Masked group seen on B.C. First Nation land are ‘cowards,’ officials say

  29-09-2026 04:13 via globalnews.ca
  
  Reaction is pouring in to what appears to be a group of white nationalists holding a demonstration on a B.C. First Nation on Sunday.
  
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• Thousands attend unruly Guelph homecoming street party as police investigate injuries, damage

  29-09-2026 04:02 via globalnews.ca
  
  Thousands of students attended a chaotic University of Guelph homecoming street party that left multiple people injured and prompted a police tactical response.
  
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• Kelowna businesses raise safety concerns as mayoral candidates debate public safety

  29-09-2026 02:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  Business owner Gerald Goertsen says over the weekend security cameras captured someone ripping out lavender plants from the side of his commercial building.
  
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• Minimum wage not enough to live in Manitoba, report says

  29-09-2026 02:29 via globalnews.ca
  
  Many Winnipeggers struggle to make ends meet as the minimum wage is nearly $4 below what a resident needs to make per hour to live in the city, a new report finds.
  
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