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• Why Alberta's World Famous Gopher Hole Museum has closed after 30 years

  08-10-2026 01:23 via cbc.ca
  
  A museum full of taxidermied ground squirrels closes its doors after 30 years in Torrington, Alta.
  
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• Cold Lake First Nations seeking judicial review of Pacific Link pipeline designation

  08-10-2026 21:37 via cbc.ca
  
  Cold Lake First Nations filed an application Thursday for judicial review in Federal Court, challenging Ottawa's decision to designate the Pacific Link pipeline as a project in the national interest.
  
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• RCMP union raises concerns Liberals' proposed financial crime agency will hurt Mounties

  08-10-2026 21:30 via cbc.ca
  
  The head of the union representing thousands of Mounties says he's worried the Liberal plan to create a new financial crime law enforcement agency will hurt the already-strained RCMP.
  
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• Man who started northern Sask. wildfire sentenced to 6 years

  08-10-2026 20:43 via cbc.ca
  
  Jason Halkett started the fire that became last year's Ditch 2 wildfire, forcing evacuations along Highway 2. He was sentenced in Montreal Lake provincial court.
  
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• Polar bear cub ready for visitors at Winnipeg zoo, as poll opens for his name

  08-10-2026 20:37 via globalnews.ca
  
  A young polar bear cub who arrived at Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park Zoo in late August is ready for visitors and needs a name, the Assiniboine Park Conservancy said.
  
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• Hamilton rocked by 2 suspected home explosions, 3 people hospitalized

  08-10-2026 20:28 via globalnews.ca
  
  One victim who was in a garage at the time of the first blast suffered serious burns and was taken to hospital in serious condition.
  
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• Cold Lake First Nations seeks judicial review of Pacific Link pipeline designation

  08-10-2026 20:26 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Cold Lake First Nations has requested a judicial review in Federal Court, challenging the decision to designate the Pacific Link pipeline a project in the national interest.
  
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• Arrests, detentions of Canadians in U.S. up 60 per cent, Ottawa says

  08-10-2026 20:14 via globalnews.ca
  
  The department's annual report on consular cases, published Thursday, tracks an increase in arrests between April 2025 and March 2026.
  
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• Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau rebuked over English-only message

  08-10-2026 20:09 via globalnews.ca
  
  The commissioner's annual report says the office received a large number of complaints after Michael Rousseau posted a four-minute video that only included two French words.
  
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• Quebec Conservatives are celebrating wins for the party — and its ideas

  08-10-2026 20:01 via nationalpost.com
  
  PLESSISVILLE, QC — “Plessisville is Conservative. He’s wasting his time here.”Samuel Côté, a country music DJ, and his girlfriend Mélanie Lévesque, a social worker, were eating lunch on their porch, just steps away from where Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon was trying to shore up support before the election.Clearly, the PQ did not have their vote. Their lawn sign showed they instead supported their Conservative can
  
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• ‘Very large question mark’: Decision on Kingston Alto rail stop won’t come until 2027

  08-10-2026 19:53 via globalnews.ca
  
  Kingston remains “promising” as a potential stop on the Alto high-speed rail corridor, but an official decision may have to wait until spring, the crown corporation said.
  
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• Saskatoon encampment removal resumes to address ‘safety concerns,’ city says

  08-10-2026 19:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  After being paused in early-August, the cleanup of an encampment at 20th Street and Avenue K South in Saskatoon resumed Thursday morning, according to the city.
  
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• Saskatchewan MLAs racked up $10.9 million in expenses last year

  08-10-2026 19:30 via globalnews.ca
  
  Saskatchewan MLAs are opening up their books to share their expenses from the last fiscal year on everything from phone bills to travel.
  
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• Bail granted for driver in Saskatchewan crash that killed mother and daughters

  08-10-2026 19:25 via globalnews.ca
  
  Kelly Knopf, a 40-year-old South Carolina resident, appeared in Yorkton court Thursday – almost a week after the fatal crash near Foam Lake, Sask.
  
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• Big tech can’t ‘tell us what to do,’ Carney says on Musk’s separatism talk

  08-10-2026 19:18 via globalnews.ca
  
  The trillionaire tech businessman and former adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump said on X that Quebec would benefit from independence, as would Alberta and Saskatchewan.
  
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• Weston family to acquire U.K. pharmacy chain Boots in $8.9B deal

  08-10-2026 19:08 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Weston family holding company, Wittington Investments, said Wednesday it is purchasing Boots and its associated businesses for USD $8.9 billion (CAD $ 12.7 billion).
  
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• Police, fire department move in to clear Saskatoon encampment

  08-10-2026 18:55 via cbc.ca
  
  Deputy fire chief Yvonne Raymer said the department moved Thursday because officials needed time to co-ordinate with police after an attempt last month to clear the encampment at 20th Street and Avenue K was thwarted by aggressive protesters.
  
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• This Ontario man won a court case for Stage 4 cancer treatment in the U.S. Then the province changed the rules

  08-10-2026 18:29 via cbc.ca
  
  Alex Shved took the province to court after OHIP rejected his oncologist's request to receive urgent treatment in the U.S. Despite the court win, he says the province has effectively blocked access to pubic funding for out-of-country drug treatments.
  
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• University of Guelph, police to join ‘homecoming working group’ after chaotic party

  08-10-2026 18:20 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police in Guelph say they're establishing a "homecoming working group" to manage large unsanctioned gatherings after a chaotic University of Guelph party made headlines last week.
  
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• Prince Harry reveals he ‘slipped into depression’ after moving to Canada

  08-10-2026 18:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  'It was myself, my wife and our son Archie, and we moved to Canada to get some space away from everything just to be able to think,' Prince Harry said.
  
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• Consultants for Hydro-Québec defend proposal to double energy costs for data centres

  08-10-2026 18:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  The analysts from energy and climate consulting firm Dunsky delivered this message at a public hearing reviewing Hydro-Québec's proposal to hike rates charged to data centres.
  
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• Ottawa launching heat pump rebate program, Carney says

  08-10-2026 18:12 via globalnews.ca
  
  The federal government is budgeting $2 billion over eight years with a target of retrofitting one million homes, Prime Minister Mark Carney said.
  
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• Danielle Smith, Scott Moe shut down Elon Musk's calls for provinces to separate: 'No'

  08-10-2026 17:52 via nationalpost.com
  
  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe have rejected billionaire Elon Musk’s suggestion that the provinces should separate from Canada.The world’s richest man made the comments on the social media platform X, which he owns along with Tesla and SpaceX, on Wednesday.Replying to a post from prediction market platform Polymarket, which was reporting on incoming Quebec premier Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s pledge that Quebec independence would one day be ach
  
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• Danielle Smith, Scott Moe shut down Elon Musk's calls for provinces to separate from Canada: 'No'

  08-10-2026 17:52 via nationalpost.com
  
  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe have rejected billionaire Elon Musk’s suggestion that the provinces should separate from Canada.The world’s richest man made the comments on the social media platform X, which he owns along with Tesla and SpaceX, on Wednesday.Replying to a post from prediction market platform Polymarket, which was reporting on incoming Quebec premier Paul St-Pierre Plamondon’s pledge that Quebec independence would one day be ach
  
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• Block after block of death and despair. This is Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, where all hope is now lost

  08-10-2026 17:34 via nationalpost.com
  
  They are rolling a dying man on a stretcher out of the Maple Hotel. He looks to be about 60 years old, unshaven, wild grey curls, filthy white socks. Electrodes are patched to a hairless chest and a monitor seismographs the agonal beatings of a beaten-down heart. The tattoo on the patient’s right forearm reads KILL TO LIVE.“What have you got here?” I ask one of the EMTs as he sheds his antiviral poncho to reveal a crisp blue uniform beneath. “This is the Downtown Eastsid
  
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• Trump’s steel tariffs likely here for ‘long term:’ Canadian industry group

  08-10-2026 17:27 via globalnews.ca
  
  The Canadian Steel Producers Association vice president says we need to deal the world as it is, not as we would like it to be, as U.S.-owned Hamilton plant lays off workers.
  
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• Fuel tax pause will help higher-income families the most: budget watchdog

  08-10-2026 17:20 via globalnews.ca
  
  Parliamentary Budget Officer Annette Ryan said in a new report Thursday that the total tax pause will save the average family $276 over the course of the roughly one year.
  
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• Ontario narrows out-of-country drug funding rules after cancer patient court victory

  08-10-2026 16:51 via globalnews.ca
  
  An Ontario man with Stage 4 melanoma says the province has blocked access to funding for out-of-country drug treatments in response to his attempts to seek therapy in the U.S.
  
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• Israel downgrades U.K. Jerusalem consulate after sanctions on West Bank

  08-10-2026 16:38 via nationalpost.com
  
  The British Consulate in Jerusalem, which Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar last month said would be shuttered, will be renamed the UK Mission, Jerusalem, and operate from the same building with a smaller staff, according to statements published on Thursday by Jerusalem and London.Twenty diplomats, including the consul general, will end their assignments and leave Israel, Sa’ar said. The consulate’s sign has been removed. Britain retains ownership of the building and may o
  
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• Nearly 1 in 4 Canadians and half of Gen Z have a side hustle, survey finds

  08-10-2026 16:25 via globalnews.ca
  
  Nearly one in four (23 per cent) of Canadians say they have a side hustle, averaging 13 hours a week on their secondary job, a recent survey has found.
  
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