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• Special mail-in ballot applications open for Alberta referendum

  20-07-2026 20:35 via cbc.ca
  
  Online applications to vote by mail in the upcoming Alberta referendum are now open until Oct. 9.
  
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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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• 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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• 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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• B.C. RCMP issue Amber Alert for 4-year-old boy

  22-07-2026 11:12 via cbc.ca
  
  West Kelowna Mounties have issued an Amber Alert for a four-year-old boy. They say Atlas Andrews was last seen on Ridge Boulevard West in Kelowna at 11:20 a.m. Tuesday.
  
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• Trump's new tariffs on Canada could face a court challenge. But this time, he might win

  22-07-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump is imposing his new tariffs on Canadian exports under a section of law that has never been used since it was put on the books in 1930.
  
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• Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc chief says probe into possible unmarked graves continues with no end in sight

  22-07-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Five years after Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc sent shockwaves around the world by announcing the First Nation found more than 200 possible unmarked graves at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, the chief says the community doesn't yet know if or when it will proceed with excavation.
  
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• Meeting at a 'turbulent' time: Inuit Circumpolar Council gathers for general assembly in Iqaluit

  22-07-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Inuit from Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Russia are gathering for the 15th Inuit Circumpolar Council general assembly in Iqaluit during a time of increased geopolitical pressures and interest in the Arctic.
  
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• How wildfire smoke travels from Ontario to New York City — and turns distant city skies orange

  22-07-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Wildfires that have torched huge areas of forest and devastated communities are also sending smoke far and wide, prompting air quality warnings in distant cities and heated political rhetoric from the U.S. Experts say there's nothing particularly unusual about this summer's smoke patterns — but they say wildfires are getting worse, and that's not likely to stop on either side of the border.
  
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• Fatal black bear attacks are extremely rare despite recent killings in Saskatchewan, experts say

  22-07-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Though last week's fatal black bear attack that killed a Saskatchewan couple came just months after another death involving a bear in the province, experts say such fatal attacks are still extremely rare.
  
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• Convoy leader Tamara Lich asking court's permission to visit White House, go on cruise

  22-07-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Tamara Lich, a key figure in the 2022 convoy protest that paralyzed downtown Ottawa for nearly a month, is back in town Wednesday to ask a court for permission to travel internationally, including going on a Caribbean cruise and visiting the White House.
  
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• Chicken thighs are how much? Here's what's driving the latest grocery sticker shock

  22-07-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Prices for fresh or frozen chicken thighs jumped 8.2 per cent from May to June — far above the monthly increases for the usual offenders like beef and coffee, according to inflation numbers.
  
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• Riders will honour crash victim Bhishma Rajyaguru

  22-07-2026 05:01 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Saskatchewan Roughriders will honour crash victim Bhishma Rajyaguru before their game Thursday night against the Edmonton Elks.
  
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• Calgary city council debates proposed exemptions from citywide rezoning repeal

  22-07-2026 04:51 via globalnews.ca
  
  According to city administration, an additional 247 properties across Calgary could be exempt from the repeal of citywide rezoning and retain their higher density zoning.
  
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• How hot is too hot to work? Report calls for heat protections for B.C. workers

  22-07-2026 04:25 via globalnews.ca
  
  Researchers with BC Policy Solutions say B.C.'s heat exposure regulations have not kept pace with increasingly frequent extreme heat.
  
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• Boston Bar, B.C., residents ordered to 'leave now' due to new, fast-moving fire

  22-07-2026 03:11 via cbc.ca
  
  The Fraser Valley Regional District has ordered anyone remaining in Boston Bar, B.C., to leave immediately due to a new fire south of the community.
  
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• Police investigate suspected hate crime after fake severed hand left at Montreal Islamic centre

  22-07-2026 03:09 via globalnews.ca
  
  Authorities say the package contained what appeared to be an imitation severed human hand covered in fake blood.
  
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