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• Frank Stronach’s name stripped from rec complex, park in 2 Ontario towns

  24-06-2026 20:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy found the billionaire guilty of one count of indecent assault and another of sexual assault.
  
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• Canada readies aid as Venezuela reels from deadly earthquakes, Carney says

  25-06-2026 17:20 via globalnews.ca
  
  Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is 'preparing humanitarian assistance' for Venezuela following a pair of deadly earthquakes hit the country Wednesday evening.
  
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• Air Canada passengers start praying after pilot becomes 'incapacitated': 'Moment the plane swerved, I knew something was wrong'

  25-06-2026 16:56 via nationalpost.com
  
  Passengers on board an Air Canada flight on Wednesday have described how they “instantly started praying” when the plane swerved violently, following a reported medical emergency.Flight AC7664, which was being operated by regional partner PAL Airlines, was en route from Newark, New Jersey, to Halifax when it was diverted to Boston Logan Airport after the pilot reportedly became incapacitated.Rodney McDonald, who was among the 61 passengers on board, told ABC News that it appeared th
  
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• N.B. legislature hearings into failures of youth social services continue today

  25-06-2026 16:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  Hearings continue today at New Brunswick's legislature into the systemic failures of the Social Development Department. 
  
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• How an app actually helped me manage my jet lag

  25-06-2026 16:31
  
  In my decade of travel writing, I never really put much effort into "beating" jet lag — despite the toll it routinely took on my trips abroad. Sometimes I would do the bare minimum, like avoiding alcohol or coffee on the flight over, or try to sleep when the hour was appropriate. Read More
  
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• Class-action lawsuit over deadly Toronto shooting clears another legal hurdle

  25-06-2026 16:29 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Supreme Court of Canada will not review a ruling by Ontario's top court allowing survivors of mass shooting to proceed with a class-action lawsuit against a gunmaker.
  
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• Carney set to speak with reporters following spring parliamentary sitting

  25-06-2026 16:26 via nationalpost.com
  
  OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney will speak with reporters at a press conference on Parliament Hill on Thursday, following the conclusion of the spring sitting.The Liberal government rammed through several pieces of legislation before the House of Commons rose last Thursday. Among them was Bill C-22, the government’s police search powers legislation, and Bill C-9, the Liberals’ anti-hate bill, both which have been the subject of contentious debate with opposition parties.Ca
  
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• 1 person dead after fire breaks out in Brampton, Ont. home

  25-06-2026 15:42 via globalnews.ca
  
  Fire Chief Andy Glynn told reporters Thursday that crews received calls for a blaze at a semi-detached home near Rutherford Road and Williams Parkway just before 11 p.m. Wednesday.
  
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• N.W.T. Fire reports 'serious incident' involving wildfire plane near Fort Simpson

  25-06-2026 15:28 via cbc.ca
  
  In a bulletin late Wednesday, the agency said the incident involved a "bird dog aircraft" that was working with an airtanker group.
  
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• Gun control group repeats call for end to sales of SKS rifles after Montreal shooting

  25-06-2026 14:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  A prominent gun control advocacy group is repeating its call for an immediate end to new sales of SKS rifles following deadly shootings in Montreal.
  
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• 'It's virtue signaling': DEI has captured corporate Canada, think tank says

  25-06-2026 12:00 via nationalpost.com
  
  Diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is widespread in corporate Canada but merit-based hiring still largely rules, a report by the Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy says.The foundation released its first Corporate Discrimination Index on Wednesday. It scored 25 of the largest Canadian-owned companies on the Toronto Stock Exchange on their hiring practices and on how often DEI language appears in their corporate reports, drawing on 500 job postings and a 42-term “woke lexicon”
  
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• Canada’s workforce is aging. Is it the wisdom economy — or a cost crunch?

  25-06-2026 12:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Statistics Canada's study released on Wednesday found that the proportion of firms with an average worker age over 40 rose from 26.2 per cent in 2001 to 42.3 per cent in 2022.
  
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• Nearly 200,000 emergency patients waited 48 hours or more for a bed last year, report finds

  25-06-2026 11:00 via nationalpost.com
  
  Hundreds of thousands of sick and injured Canadians are spending up to two days or longer parked on hard stretchers or plastic chairs in the country’s swamped emergency departments, waiting for a scarce bed to open upstairs, and these delays can be deadly.New data show that, in 2024-2025, one in 10 emergency patients — 1.5 million people — spent more than 14 hours in emergency.Of the 16.1 million ER visits reported in total, 1.8 million people needed to be admitted to hospital
  
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• Canadians are dying in emergency rooms as wait times climb to 48 hours

  25-06-2026 11:00 via nationalpost.com
  
  Hundreds of thousands of sick and injured Canadians are spending up to two days or longer parked on hard stretchers or plastic chairs in the country’s swamped emergency departments, waiting for a scarce bed to open upstairs, and these delays can be deadly.New data show that, in 2024-2025, one in 10 emergency patients — 1.5 million people — spent more than 14 hours in emergency.Of the 16.1 million ER visits reported in total, 1.8 million people needed to be admitted to hospital
  
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• As U.S. tensions persist, buy-local movement remains strong in Nova Scotia

  25-06-2026 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump’s talk of Canada becoming the 51st state made Halifax’s Dale Darling stop buying American products. And she's far from alone, numbers show.
  
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• StubHub World Cup ticket cancellations prompt calls for investigations, legal action

  25-06-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  StubHub customers who had World Cup tickets cancelled at the last minute are calling on lawyers, politicians and the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to investigate the company.
  
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• 'Socializing losses': Critics pan federal plan to acquire unsold condos from developers in B.C.

  25-06-2026 10:00 via nationalpost.com
  
  OTTAWA — Criticism is mounting for a proposed federal-provincial program that would acquire unsold condo units in British Columbia and convert them into affordable housing.“It’s moral hazard, it’s socializing losses while the profits flow to developers, so developers can only win, the government will come and bail them out, which is crazy,” said Ron Butler, principal broker at Butler Mortgage Inc. and host of the Angry Mortgage Podcast.Last week, Prime Minister Mar
  
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• Ottawa said military would send sexual offence cases to civilian police. It retained nearly 70%

  25-06-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Military police failed to transfer almost 70 per cent of sexual offence cases over the past five years to civilian police, despite the government committing to doing so as it worked to pass a permanent change into law.
  
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• More than 10,000 anti-LGBTQ posts made by Canadians day after Tumbler Ridge shooting, memo says

  25-06-2026 10:00 via nationalpost.com
  
  OTTAWA — As the country mourned the eight killed and others injured by a shooter who attacked a secondary school in interior British Columbia, more than 10,000 anti-LGBTQ posts expressing hate and calling for violence were made the next day by Canadians online, according to an intelligence brief.The details, contained in a memo prepared by the Canadian Security Intelligence Services’ integrated threat assessment centre, warned that those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans
  
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• Headed to the ER? Here's why you could now wait more than 48 hours to be admitted

  25-06-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A report released Thursday by the Canadian Institute for Health Information found that limited emergency room capacity, difficulties in accessing standard care and the country's aging population are to blame for patients spending more than 48 hours waiting in ERs.
  
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• Did fentanyl move north? Not everyone thinks the U.S. border claim holds up

  25-06-2026 10:00 via nationalpost.com
  
  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fentanyl has become a political symbol of border failure, but public health academics say the recent decline in overdose deaths points instead to shifts in supply and public health measures — not tariffs or border crackdowns.Nearly half of Americans — 42 per cent in 2024 — know someone who has died from an overdose, with most of those deaths linked to synthetic opioids like fentanyl. In Canada, no national polling exists, but regional surveys have also
  
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• Vancouver port receives permission to dredge Burrard Inlet, allow big oil tankers to increase load

  25-06-2026 05:59 via cbc.ca
  
  The Vancouver Port Authority says dredging underneath the Second Narrows bridge will start in September, but it could not say how long the work will take.
  
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• Red Deer high school students come together to help classmate fighting cancer

  25-06-2026 04:55 via globalnews.ca
  
  Grade 11 student Lachlan Ross was born with a genetic condition causing him to be him non-verbal and have complex medical needs.
  
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• Kelowna business turns crash damage into colourful community artwork

  25-06-2026 03:29 via globalnews.ca
  
  Owner Deb Liebholtz was left staring at sheets of plywood covering the damage.Instead of seeing an eyesore, she saw an opportunity
  
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• ‘There is real momentum’: Saskatchewan continues to prepare for nuclear future

  25-06-2026 03:05 via globalnews.ca
  
  As the federal government releases its future energy strategy, Saskatchewan's government and a major uranium mining company say it is ready to meet that demand.
  
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• Swiss collector eager to sell his collection of Indigenous artifacts back to communities

  25-06-2026 02:29 via cbc.ca
  
  A Swiss collector who has amassed thousands of Indigenous artifacts says he is eager to have his collection repatriated back to the communities it has come from.
  
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• Halifax-bound flight 'swerves violently' after captain became incapacitated

  25-06-2026 00:52 via cbc.ca
  
  The flight was en route from Newark to Halifax on Wednesday when the captain experienced a medical emergency in the cockpit. The co-pilot diverted the plane to Boston where it landed safely.
  
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• Halifax-bound flight started 'swerving violently' after captain became incapacitated

  25-06-2026 00:52 via cbc.ca
  
  The flight was en route from Newark to Halifax on Wednesday when the captain experienced a medical emergency in the cockpit. The co-pilot diverted the plane to Boston where it landed safely.
  
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• Halifax-bound Air Canada flight diverted to Boston after captain experiences medical issue

  25-06-2026 00:52 via cbc.ca
  
  AC7664 was enroute from Newark to Halifax on Wednesday afternoon. The captain experienced a medical issue during the flight and it was diverted to Boston. Air Canada says it is working to help its 61 customers who were on the plane make new travel arrangements.
  
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• Halifax-bound Air Canada flight diverted after captain became incapacitated, restrained by passengers

  25-06-2026 00:52 via cbc.ca
  
  Flight 7664 was en route from Newark to Halifax on Wednesday afternoon. The captain experienced a medical issue during the flight and it was diverted to Boston. Air Canada says it is working to help its 61 passengers who were on the plane make new travel arrangements.
  
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