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74 dead after gas stove fire engulfs Pakistan train in flames

31-10-2019 10:30 via cbc.ca

A raging fire swept through a train in Pakistan's eastern Punjab Province on Thursday, killing 74 people.

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Alberta, Anglican diocese accept vicarious liability in lawsuit over alleged 1980s sexual assaults

29-09-2026 22:06 via cbc.ca

The Alberta government and the Anglican Synod of the Diocese of Edmonton have admitted vicarious liability for an Anglican priest's sexual assaults against youth in a city jail in the 1980s.

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Hurricane Polo makes 2nd landfall on Mexico's Pacific coast

29-09-2026 21:52 via cbc.ca

Hurricane Polo made a second landfall on Mexico's northwestern Pacific coast on Tuesday after drenching the southern Baja California peninsula.

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Premier Scott Moe goes big on nuclear with plans to explore 2 large nuclear reactors in northwest Sask.

29-09-2026 21:30 via cbc.ca

Saskatchewan says it wants to have a large nuclear reactor online by 2042. It has also narrowed down the location of further study for its construction ofSmall Modular Reactors (SMR) to the Rafferty site near Estevan.

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'It's devastating': Hundreds of Stelco workers in Hamilton and Nanticoke face uncertain future due to layoffs

29-09-2026 21:22 via cbc.ca

Hundreds of Stelco workers in Hamilton and Nanticoke, Ont. are facing an uncertain future after the company announced it will indefinitely idle its cold-rolled and coated operations at its Hamilton Works plant.

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British police say no explosives found in vehicles near U.S.-run base

29-09-2026 20:45 via cbc.ca

A surprise decision by the U.K.'s counterterrorism police to release five suspects on bail during an investigation into a suspected bomb plot at a U.S.-operated air force base in England has prompted questions and uncertainty about the incident.

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Police investigating after 10K litres of diesel stolen from 3 Calgary gas stations

29-09-2026 19:56 via cbc.ca

BG Fuels says it's had 10,000 litres of diesel stolen from three Mobil gas stations in Calgary, with surveillance footage suggesting the fuel was pulled directly out of underground tanks.

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Rush frontman Geddy Lee endorses Brad Bradford in Toronto mayoral race

29-09-2026 19:46 via cbc.ca

Canadian vocalist and bassist is openly endorsing the city councillor for Toronto's top job, saying the city needs new leadership.

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Everything you need to know about the 10 questions in Alberta's Oct. 19 referendum

29-09-2026 19:46 via cbc.ca

CBC News breaks down each of the referendum questions to help voters prepare to mark the 10 ballots.

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Ontario man who drove to P.E.I. and attacked woman found not criminally responsible

29-09-2026 18:58 via cbc.ca

An Ontario man who attacked a security guard in Slemon Park, P.E.I., and ran her over with his truck has been found not criminally responsible for his actions.

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U.S. forces set to leave Iraq after first arriving in 2003

29-09-2026 18:35 via cbc.ca

U.S. forces are set to pull out from their last bases in Iraq by Wednesday, a departure celebrated as a victory by Iran and its allies who now have deep influence in the country where 4,500 Americans died during more than two decades of war.

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Dennis Haskins, Saved by the Bell's principal Belding, dead at 75

29-09-2026 18:29 via cbc.ca

Dennis Haskins, best known for playing principal Richard Belding on the hit sitcom Saved by the Bell, has died. His agent Jay Schachter confirmed the news to CBC News in a statement, though no cause of death was given. He was 75.

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Digger review: Tom Cruise is fantastic, but you might hate the film

29-09-2026 18:19 via cbc.ca

This climate morality tale suggests that director Alejandro G. Iñárritu and his audience are engaging in the same self-satisfied ritual that got us into this real-life mess in the first place. Of using high-minded entertainment to point out, and joke about, our impending doom, as if that alone is admirable. As if that could change anything at all.

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American taps small Sask. business to solve international photo mystery

29-09-2026 18:18 via cbc.ca

For more than four years, American Bill Delzell has been trying to figure out the identity of the photographer who captured San Francisco history in the 1960s. Now he's hoping a Sask. company will be able to develop 75 rolls of unprocessed film to crack the mystery.

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Province buys southwestern Manitoba campsite believed to hold unmarked residential school graves

29-09-2026 18:06 via cbc.ca

The provincial government has bought the private Turtle Crossing Campground in southwestern Manitoba, where potential unmarked residential school graves have been identified.

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N.S. senior killed ailing wife after promising to help her take her own life, court hears

29-09-2026 17:45 via cbc.ca

Douglas Smith, 75, was sentenced Tuesday for killing his wife in their home four years ago after she had asked for help taking her own life, according to court documents.

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Lindsay Clancy's lawyer now says there's lack of evidence she killed her children

29-09-2026 17:27 via cbc.ca

In a shift from what was presented in her mistrial, Lindsay Clancy's lawyer now argues there's no evidence Clancy actually killed her three children.

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Heavy rains in Thailand kill 23, cause airport chaos

29-09-2026 16:55 via cbc.ca

The death toll from rains and flooding in Thailand has risen ‌to 23, authorities said on Tuesday Waters receded from the hard-hit capital Bangkok, where its main airport operated in chaos and the government approved a multi-million aid package.

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Judge tosses drug trafficking convictions for B.C. compassion club founders after constitutional challenge

29-09-2026 16:42 via cbc.ca

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled in favour of two harm-reduction activists convicted of drug trafficking who argued they were doing it to reduce the harms caused by toxic drugs.

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Berlin Marathon winner limped to finish line after rupturing Achilles tendon chasing world mark

29-09-2026 16:35 via cbc.ca

Berlin Marathon winner Tigst Assefa of Ethiopia "completely destroyed" her right Achilles tendon trying to regain her world record.

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Province and feds extending affordable child-care program in Ontario, but fees stay the same

29-09-2026 15:51 via cbc.ca

Ontario and the federal government have agreed to extend the national affordable child-care program in the province for another four years, but it may not live up to its signature goal — lowering parent fees to an average of $10 a day.

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New tool measures real-world impacts of fossil fuel projects like N.L's Bay du Nord

29-09-2026 15:04 via cbc.ca

Australian researchers say they've built the world's first public tool for calculating how fossil fuel developments will affect the climate, and they're using the Bay du Nord offshore oil project as a test subject.

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Deloitte Canada cuts GDP growth forecast by 20% as tariffs grip economy amid Trump's trade war

29-09-2026 14:53 via cbc.ca

Deloitte Canada has shaved 20 per cent off its growth forecast for Canada's economy in 2027, citing increasingly tough conditions for consumers and businesses. The accounting firm's latest outlook comes as a new American ban on select Canadian imports took effect.

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Deloitte Canada cuts GDP forecast by 20% as tariffs grip economy amid Trump's trade war

29-09-2026 14:53 via cbc.ca

Deloitte Canada has shaved 20 per cent off its growth forecast for Canada's economy in 2027, citing increasingly tough conditions for consumers and businesses. The accounting firm's latest outlook comes as a new American ban on select Canadian imports took effect.

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Ontario woman convicted of killing her baby in 2002 acquitted amid new medical research

29-09-2026 14:15 via cbc.ca

Jennifer Gaskin was acquitted of manslaughter Tuesday more than two decades after being convicted in the death of her infant son.

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Estonia blames Russia for arson at defence factory that produces vehicles Ukraine has used

29-09-2026 13:29 via cbc.ca

Estonian authorities said Tuesday they have concluded that an arson attack in mid-August on a defence company that provides military vehicles to Ukraine was an act of sabotage commissioned by Russian security services.

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LNG Canada to move forward with Phase 2 expansion project in Kitimat, B.C.

29-09-2026 13:13 via cbc.ca

LNG Canada says its multibillion-dollar Phase 2 expansion in Kitimat, B.C., is going forward, in a move that could double exports of liquefied natural gas from the northern coastal facility to overseas markets.

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LNG Canada expansion gets go-ahead, as Carney set to highlight 'historic investment' in Canadian energy

29-09-2026 13:13 via cbc.ca

The multibillion-dollar LNG Canada Phase 2 expansion in Kitimat, B.C., is going forward, Shell Energy Canada says, in a move that could double exports of liquefied natural gas from the northern coastal facility to overseas markets.

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Inside 'Hood 420:' Bishnoi-linked gang tied to threats against B.C. radio station

29-09-2026 13:00 via cbc.ca

The main suspect in a brazen shooting and extortion campaign against an outspoken Surrey, B.C. radio station is suspected of playing an organizing role in connection with a series of Ontario extortions which resulted in more than 100 charges against 17 men earlier this year. Documents obtained by CBC News reveal the existence of a group called Hood 420, which has been linked with carrying out threats in B.C., Alberta and Ontario.

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Separatist group takes motorhome to northwestern Alberta to talk independence

29-09-2026 12:00 via cbc.ca

The Let’s Talk Alberta motorhome makes a slow turn off Highway 2 into the parking lot of the Dunvegan Inn in Fairview, Alta., on a sunny mid-September morning.

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