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• Is there an alternative to killing nuisance black bears?

  19-07-2026 15:00 via cbc.ca
  
  It’s a common debate in communities next to bear habitat — should you call the B.C. Conservation Officer Service to report a bear looking for sources of human food like garbage or kids’ lunch boxes? Some encourage others not to report such incidents because of a belief that it amounts to a death sentence for the bear.
  
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• Canada, U.S. warn against false distress calls on Great Lakes as numbers mount

  22-07-2026 19:03 via globalnews.ca
  
  As part of its effort to limit false calls, boaters in distress are being advised to use VHF-FM channel 16 or 911 to call for help in a real emergency.
  
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• Some Indigenous leaders call premiers' meeting positive but inclusion remains an issue

  22-07-2026 18:58 via cbc.ca
  
  Some Indigenous leaders say they had a positive meeting with provincial and territorial leaders on the margins of this year's Council of the Federation gathering in Prince Edward Island, but issues remain with the list of invitees and Indigenous leaders' level of participation.
  
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• 'Canada’s antisemitism crisis': Jews targeted in 71 per cent of religious hate crimes, StatCan says

  22-07-2026 18:54 via nationalpost.com
  
  Hate crimes in Canada fell last year for the first time since 2018, but Jewish Canadians remained one of the most-targeted groups.Police reported 4,708 hate crimes in 2025, down three per cent from 4,841 the year before, Statistics Canada said Wednesday. The decline follows six straight years of increases that more than doubled the national count between 2018 and 2024. Measured against population, the rate fell four per cent to 11 incidents per 100,000 people, still more than twice the 2018 rat
  
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• Manitoba premier says he is 'open to' Alberta-Ontario oil pipeline proposal

  22-07-2026 18:49 via nationalpost.com
  
  CHARLOTTETOWN — Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says he is willing to consider backing the west-to-east pipeline proposal announced by fellow premiers Alberta’s Danielle Smith and Ontario’s Doug Ford in early July that would cut through his province.The proposed route would run across southern Manitoba, passing through the areas of Portage la Prairie and Winnipeg, and onward to Ontario.“I’m open to it,” Kinew told reporters Wednesday at the Canadian premiers confe
  
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• Inquest finds police use of force, drug use caused man’s death of Prince Albert man

  22-07-2026 18:32 via globalnews.ca
  
  Saskatchewan's chief forensic pathologist found Boden Umpherville suffered a cardiac arrest due to drug use and a restricted airway while held down by police.
  
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• Brampton couple wins $70M Lotto Max jackpot with Mother’s Day gift

  22-07-2026 18:27 via globalnews.ca
  
  A Brampton couple who came to Canada from Jamaica decades ago has won a $70-million Lotto Max jackpot with a ticket bought as a Mother’s Day gift.
  
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• U.S. man tried to float illegal drugs to Canada in duffel bags he bought in Walmart

  22-07-2026 18:06 via nationalpost.com
  
  A 69-year-old man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for trying to float hundreds of kilograms of methamphetamine from Washington state to Canada via the Strait of Juan de Fuca.John Michael Sherwood, a former resident of Rhode Island, Texas, and Chicago, was sentenced on Friday in a Seattle court for three federal felonies connected to his 2021 scheme to smuggle duffel bags full of drugs across the strait.The scheme was uncovered after a family came across one of the bags on a Washington
  
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• 'Just want them to come home': Family of 2 boys missing in Manitoba lake in pain, says lodge owner

  22-07-2026 17:42 via cbc.ca
  
  Boats have been on the water of eastern Manitoba's Nutimik Lake since 6 a.m. Wednesday, marking the fifth day of searching for two boys believed to have drowned near Sturgeon Falls.
  
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• Police watchdog probing man’s death after driver flees N.S. traffic stop

  22-07-2026 17:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  Nova Scotia's police watchdog says it's investigating the death of a 19-year-old man who allegedly fled from police.
  
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• Peel police charge 2 alleged MS-13 members after human trafficking investigation

  22-07-2026 17:18 via globalnews.ca
  
  Two alleged MS-13 gang members are facing human trafficking charges after Peel police say a woman was sexually exploited across the GTA.
  
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• 'Rare' contagious cancer found in fish from Quebec and U.S. lakes

  22-07-2026 17:00 via cbc.ca
  
  It's rare that cancerous tumours can spread from one individual to another. But a genetic study suggests that's what's happening with melanoma skin cancer tumours among catfish in Quebec and the northeastern U.S.
  
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• Catfish in Quebec catch cancer from each other, study finds

  22-07-2026 17:00 via cbc.ca
  
  It's rare that cancerous tumours can spread from one individual to another. But a genetic study suggests that's what's happening with melanoma skin cancer tumours among catfish in Quebec and the northeastern U.S.
  
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• Canada’s salmonella outbreak from pistachios over, but Iran import ban remains

  22-07-2026 17:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  The outbreak began in March 2025 and lasted more than a year, with the final reported sicknesses happening in May and caused 200 lab-confirmed cases in six provinces.
  
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• Carney to meet premiers in P.E.I. as new Trump tariffs loom

  22-07-2026 15:33 via globalnews.ca
  
  Whether Canada should use energy exports as leverage in trade talks with the Trump administration has become a point of disagreement between Canada’s premiers.
  
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• As Carney meets premiers, Joly says Europe trade may ‘counter’ U.S. tariffs

  22-07-2026 15:33 via globalnews.ca
  
  Whether Canada should use energy exports as leverage in trade talks with the Trump administration has become a point of disagreement between Canada’s premiers.
  
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• Read the full text of the Gordie Howe Bridge deal: 'Proposed agreement in principle'

  22-07-2026 15:22 via nationalpost.com
  
  Ottawa has released details of the revenue-sharing agreement between Canada and the United States on the soon-to-be-opened Gordie Howe International Bridge between Detroit, Michigan, and Windsor, Ont.A document posted to the bridge’s website lists several factors under what is referred to as a “proposed agreement in principle.”They include a payment by Canada of 50 per cent of net bridge and crossing related revenues for the first 15 years of the bridge’s operation. &ldq
  
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• Police warn of donation scam as search for missing Calgary boy continues

  22-07-2026 15:22 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police said in a Facebook post Tuesday it’s become aware of an online fundraising campaign that claims to support the search for Parker, who went missing on July 16.
  
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• BC Wildfire Service braces for heat peak, warns of potential new starts

  22-07-2026 14:24 via globalnews.ca
  
  An incident commander for a complex of fires burning near Kimberley, B.C., says more resources are on the way to help firefighters battle the fires as heat peaks this week.
  
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• B.C.’s Brunswick Creek wildfire triggers more evacuations

  22-07-2026 14:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  The latest call for locals to get out comes in the Hells Gate area, just downstream of the community of Boston Bar, where the Fraser River's flow tightens.
  
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• Text of new Gordie Howe bridge deal seems to contradict Carney

  22-07-2026 14:04 via cbc.ca
  
  Ottawa has revealed the text of a controversial agreement with the U.S. toopen the long-awaited Gordie Howe International Bridgenear Windsor, Ont., which has been at the centre of recent political tensions.
  
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• More than 180 wildfires burning in Ontario’s north

  22-07-2026 14:04 via globalnews.ca
  
  Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources is listing 173 wildfires as active this morning in Ontario's north, including 12 that had been sparked in the last 24 hours.
  
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• More than 170 wildfires burning in Ontario’s north

  22-07-2026 14:04 via globalnews.ca
  
  Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources is listing 173 wildfires as active this morning in Ontario's north, including 12 that had been sparked in the last 24 hours.
  
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• 'Skeeter syndrome’ showing up in Alberta as mosquito populations boom

  22-07-2026 13:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Alberta's booming mosquito populations are triggering more than just itchiness and aggravation. It turns out the pesky swarms are leading to some emergency room visits in Alberta, particularly among children.
  
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• 'Skeeter syndrome' showing up in Alberta as mosquito populations boom

  22-07-2026 13:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Alberta's booming mosquito populations are triggering more than just itchiness and aggravation. It turns out the pesky swarms are leading to some emergency room visits in Alberta, particularly among children.
  
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• Canadians are quick to call AI use cheating, slow to disclose their own use: poll

  22-07-2026 13:00 via nationalpost.com
  
  Most Canadians have decided that using artificial intelligence to do your work and not saying so is a kind of cheating. Getting them to admit their own use is another matter.A new Leger survey, commissioned by the Association for Canadian Studies, the Diversity Institute at Toronto Metropolitan University and the Future Skills Centre, found 75 per cent of Canadians think AI use should be disclosed for schoolwork and 61 per cent for work. Only 32 per cent said they acknowledge their own use of A
  
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• PQ would renegotiate Churchill Falls MOU with 1927 ‘injustice’ in mind

  22-07-2026 12:00 via nationalpost.com
  
  If the Parti Québécois is elected this fall, it says it will try to redraft a pending energy deal with Newfoundland and Labrador to further develop Churchill Falls. But only if it involves compensation for Quebec’s loss of Labrador nearly a century ago.In an interview with National Post, the party’s energy critic Pascal Paradis said a PQ government would be willing to sit down and discuss new terms to update the 1969 energy deal that is loathed in Newfoundland and Labr
  
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• Ontario forest firefighters warned for years about retention, pay issues

  22-07-2026 12:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Back in 2016, a report warned that fire rangers were quitting at an alarming rate, were less experienced than in previous years and were comparatively underpaid.
  
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• Manitoba partially repays retiree for out-of-country surgery after twice refusing to pick up the tab

  22-07-2026 12:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Tom Molinski, 69, is relieved after receiving a cheque in the mail for nearly $24,000 from Manitoba Health after the province twice refused to reimburse him for an out-of-country spine surgery nearly two years ago.
  
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• Ford government advised its MPPs they could use hotel benefit for night sittings

  22-07-2026 12:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  For more than a week, government MPPs have been facing scrutiny for charging downtown Toronto hotel stays to the taxpayer instead of commuting to and from Queen’s Park.
  
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