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• Hastings Prince Edward Public Health announces 1st death due to COVID-19

  31-03-2020 22:58 via globalnews.ca
  
  Hastings Prince Edward Public Health has announced its first COVID-19-related death.
  
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• Manitoba PCs to choose new leader in April 2025

  16-04-2024 17:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  Party members will select a new leader on April 26, 2025 — a year-and-a-half after Heather Stefanson announced her plans to step down following the PCs' election defeat.
  
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• Grocery inflation slows in March, but price growth at restaurants remains strong

  16-04-2024 17:30 via ctvnews.ca
  
  Inflation on groceries continued to slow in March, rising just 1.9 per cent compared with a year earlier.
  
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• 2 arrested in Winnipeg police drug bust, cocaine and meth seized

  16-04-2024 17:29 via globalnews.ca
  
  Two people were arrested, and Winnipeg police say they seized about $26,000 in cocaine, $3,000 in meth, drug packaging materials, ID and $230 cash.
  
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• Tim Hortons pizza? Chain looks to break through in crowded food market

  16-04-2024 17:07 via globalnews.ca
  
  Tim Hortons is following up a two-year flatbread pizza pilot with the national launch of cheese, pepperoni, "bacon everything" and chicken Parmesan varieties Wednesday.
  
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• What to do about Olympic Stadium’s beleaguered old roof? Ideas are wanted

  16-04-2024 16:52 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Olympic Park launched a contest for ideas on how to reuse and recycle the materials that make up the dilapidated structure, which has 20,000 holes in it.
  
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• Saskatoon morning news rewind: Tuesday, April 16

  16-04-2024 16:35 via globalnews.ca
  
  Here's a look back on who was on 'Global News Morning Saskatoon' for Tuesday, April 16.
  
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• Inmate who escaped from N.B. prison has long history of violent crimes

  16-04-2024 16:34 via atlantic.ctvnews.ca
  
  An inmate who escaped from Dorchester Penitentiary in Dorchester, N.B., on Saturday evening has a long history of violent crimes and a history of escaping custody.
  
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• RCMP uses spike belt to catch N.S. man who allegedly fled from police

  16-04-2024 16:22 via globalnews.ca
  
  RCMP in Nova Scotia have charged a 26-year-old man from Dartmouth after he allegedly fled from police in Ellershouse, N.S. Sunday night.
  
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• Housing starts in Canada fall 7% in March from previous month, CMHC says

  16-04-2024 16:13 via globalnews.ca
  
  The national housing agency says the seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts amounted to 242,195 units in March compared with 260,047 in February.
  
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• 'Puppet show': Saskatchewan finance minister apologizes for text to Speaker

  16-04-2024 16:05 via regina.ctvnews.ca
  
  Saskatchewan's finance minister was ordered to apologize after she sent the Speaker a text accusing him of letting the legislature devolve into an 'Opposition puppet show' on Monday.
  
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• Jurors to hear closing arguments in trial for three men charged after Coutts blockade

  16-04-2024 15:59 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  Closing arguments are scheduled today for three men accused of orchestrating the border shutdown at Coutts, Alta., in early 2022.
  
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• Food service strike: Air Canada, WestJet refine options at Toronto Pearson

  16-04-2024 15:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  More than 800 workers responsible for providing food and beverages on flights leaving Toronto Pearson International Airport are on strike.
  
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• Food service strike: Air Canada, WestJet refine menus at Toronto Pearson

  16-04-2024 15:56 via globalnews.ca
  
  More than 800 workers responsible for providing food and beverages on flights leaving Toronto Pearson International Airport are on strike.
  
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• Thousands of dollars worth of tropical fish stolen from Ottawa Valley restaurant

  16-04-2024 15:50 via ottawa.ctvnews.ca
  
  Ontario Provincial Police are investigating the theft of "several thousand" dollars worth of tropical fish stolen from an Upper Ottawa Valley restaurant last week.
  
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• Annual inflation rate increased to 2.9% in March

  16-04-2024 14:23 via ctvnews.ca
  
  Statistics Canada will release its consumer price index for March on inflation this morning.
  
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• Drought puts Alberta farmers at risk of another scourge of grasshoppers

  16-04-2024 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Parts of Alberta are at heightened risk of another grasshopper population boom in 2024, after significant outbreaks during the last growing season — but it's a waiting game to see how many insects take wing.
  
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• 'A race against time': Alberta community chasing solutions after months of hauling water

  16-04-2024 14:00 via cbc.ca
  
  The Municipal District of Pincher Creek has been dealing with a water crisis for months, which has already cost it more than $1 million. Now, time is ticking on a possible solution — but are bigger problems still ahead?
  
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• 2 dead following 3-vehicle collision in Wellington County

  16-04-2024 13:58 via globalnews.ca
  
  A three-vehicle collision near Drayton has claimed the lives two people. Wellington County OPP say four others were taken to hospital, including one to a trauma centre.
  
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• University of Guelph embraces Indigenous culture with new name for science atrium

  16-04-2024 13:40 via globalnews.ca
  
  The 12,000-square-foot shared gathering space at the University of Guelph features a mix of glass, stone and brick with lush foliage, plus four original Indigenous paintings.
  
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• Freeland set to table 2024 federal budget in the House of Commons

  16-04-2024 13:40 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Liberal government has already unveiled significant planks of the budget over the last few weeks during a campaign-style tour aimed at drumming up attention for their agenda. 
  
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• Statistics Canada set to release its March inflation report

  16-04-2024 13:22 via globalnews.ca
  
  The inflation report will be scrutinized by the Bank of Canada which kept its key interest rate target on hold last week at five per cent.
  
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• Inflation ticked higher in March. Are Bank of Canada rate cuts still in the cards?

  16-04-2024 13:22 via globalnews.ca
  
  Statistics Canada reported that the overall inflation in the country was up 2.9 per cent year-over-year in March, from 2.8 per cent the previous month. 
  
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• Canada’s inflation rate ticked up in March amid higher gas prices

  16-04-2024 13:22 via globalnews.ca
  
  Statistics Canada reported that the overall inflation in the country was up 2.9 per cent year-over-year in March, from 2.8. per cent the previous month. 
  
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• Tim Hortons launches pizza nationally to 'stretch the brand' to afternoon, night

  16-04-2024 12:30 via ctvnews.ca
  
  Tim Hortons is launching flatbread pizzas nationally in a bid to pick up more afternoon and evening customers.
  
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• Driver missing in Ontario after police say vehicle was pulled into creek

  16-04-2024 12:23 via globalnews.ca
  
  Searchers have been looking for a motorist missing since the weekend when police say the vehicle entered a flooded ditch and was pulled into a creek in northern Ontario.
  
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• Freeland to present 2024 federal budget, promising billions in new spending

  16-04-2024 12:10 via ctvnews.ca
  
  Canadians will learn Tuesday the entirety of the federal Liberal government's new spending plans, and how they intend to pay for them, when Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tables the 2024 federal budget.
  
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• UP Express stops in Toronto reduced as Metrolinx shakes up GO train service

  16-04-2024 12:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Toronto's airport train, the UP Express, has been caught up in a raft of service changes planned by Metrolinx. From the end of April, local stops on the route will be cut in half.
  
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• Read the fine print: Winnipeg couple's travel insurance claim 'not covered,' insurer says

  16-04-2024 12:00 via cbc.ca
  
  A Winnipeg senior is questioning the value of buying flight cancellation insurance after his claim was denied.
  
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• Ontario's biggest hydro dams to get $1B life extension

  16-04-2024 12:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Ontario's energy minister is set to announce a $1 billion plan to extend the life of the biggest hydroelectric dams in the province.
  
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