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B.C. Conservatives drop candidate over post minimizing Holocaust

15-10-2026 23:53 via cbc.ca

A B.C. Conservative candidate has been dropped after he was accused of posting offensive remarks on social media.

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Winnipeg teacher stripped of certificate after sending hundreds of messages to student in 'serious breach'

20-10-2026 12:00 via cbc.ca

A Winnipeg teacher has been stripped of his licence over a years-long "inappropriately close relationship" with a student that began in a middle school and continued after the student went on to high school.

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Stelco's U.S. owner says steelmaker had 'strongest' quarter since acquisition as massive layoffs underway

20-10-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca

Stelco's third quarter this year was its "strongest" since the U.S. company acquired it in 2024, according to its owner. At the same time, hundreds in Ontario are set to lose their jobs in Hamilton and Nanticoke. Layoff notices started rolling out earlier this month.

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Incoming Quebec premier asks lieutenant-governor to skip cabinet's swearing-in

20-10-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca

In a letter sent Monday to Lt.-Gov. Manon Jeannotte, the Parti Québécois leader stated his incoming government will not allow a representative of the British Crown to preside over the event.

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Conditions for wildfire were 'extreme' at Wainwright Saturday, experts say

20-10-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca

A dangerous cocktail of weather conditions were at play Saturday afternoon when a deadly fire engulfed a training exercise at CFB Wainwright in east-central Alberta, killing four soldiers and severely injuring dozens more, weather and wildfire experts say.

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A contractor left this Toronto man without a roof. His insurance company is denying his claim

20-10-2026 10:00 via cbc.ca

What began as a simple knock on the front door last spring has resulted in an elderly Scarborough man living out of a suitcase, his home roofless and in ruins. While police are investigating a possible fraud, the man says he can't afford to rebuild his roof with his insurance claim denied.

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Tampa Bay Rays to face Milwaukee Brewers in the World Series

20-10-2026 07:58 via cbc.ca

Junior Caminero and Yandy Diaz each hit a two-run homer and Freddy Peralta threw 5 1/3 gritty innings as the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Cleveland Guardians 7-3 in Game 6 of the American League Championship Series on Monday night to advance to the World Series for the third time in the franchise's 29 seasons.

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'I don't take that lightly,' says Melissa Syer, about her decisive win in Yellowknife mayoral race

20-10-2026 04:53 via cbc.ca

Melissa Syer has defeated Garett Cochrane in the race to be the next mayor of Yellowknife in Monday’s municipal election. Cochrane conceded not long after polls closed, as Syer held a decisive lead.

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Canadian who stole a Las Vegas flamingo after drinking '30 to 40' beers convicted of animal cruelty

20-10-2026 02:13 via cbc.ca

A Las Vegas court convicted Ontario man Mitchell Fairbarn of animal cruelty charges Monday for snatching a flamingo named Peachy from its habitat at the Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel and Casino last March in what prosecutors called a drunken and malicious act.

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'Not out of the woods': Family rallies around soldier badly burned in CFB Wainwright fire

20-10-2026 01:04 via cbc.ca

Before he was airlifted to hospital and intubated, Sean Hiatt managed to call his mom and tell her he'd been injured in a training accident at CFB Wainwright. He was coherent at the time, according to his sister, and it gave the family hope. Now they're focused on his immediate care, and taking things 12 hours at a time.

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B.C. judge rules Abbotsford killers' Charter rights were breached

20-10-2026 00:43 via cbc.ca

The family and friends of Arnold and Joanne De Jong will have to wait until the new year for the three killers of their loved ones to be sentenced, after a judge ruled a lack of access to earlier parole breaches the killers' Charter rights.

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Man who lost legs to MS warming heads and hearts by knitting tuques on custom-made cot

20-10-2026 00:28 via cbc.ca

Leonard Foidart built a cot so he can knit comfortably while lying down. The 84-year-old from Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Man., lost his legs decades ago and finds it difficult to sit but loves to knit, donating more than 1,000 tuques in the last five years.

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Man who lost legs to MS is knitting tuques on custom-made cot

20-10-2026 00:28 via cbc.ca

Leonard Foidart built a cot so he can knit comfortably while lying down. The 84-year-old from Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes, Man., lost his legs decades ago and finds it difficult to sit but loves to knit, donating more than 1,000 tuques in the last five years.

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Curling controversy: Unusual finish generates boos, ruffles feathers at Slam event

20-10-2026 00:03 via cbc.ca

The Grand Slam of Curling's competition committee plans to meet this week to discuss an unusual finish at the Co-op Invitational that sent two Canadian teams into the playoffs and led to pointed words from an American rink left outside the cutline.

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Cop killer Curtis Dagenais returns to Saskatoon courtroom to argue about fate of his truck

19-10-2026 22:47 via cbc.ca

Curtis Dagenais returned on Monday to the same Saskatoon courtroom where, 17 years ago, a jury convicted him of murder.

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4 soldiers from El Salvador missing in Haiti after attack by gangs

19-10-2026 22:12 via cbc.ca

Gangs in Haiti opened fire on an armoured vehicle over the weekend, leaving four soldiers from El Salvador unaccounted for in the first major attack since an international gang suppression force began operations in the violence-wracked Caribbean country.

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Anthropic sued by major Canadian news publishers for copyright claims in Ontario court

19-10-2026 21:44 via cbc.ca

In the lawsuit filed on Oct. 6, Postmedia, Torstar, The Globe and Mail and The Canadian Press say Anthropic infringed on their copyright by using their content to develop its large language AI model, Claude.

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UN food program funding cuts force group to slash aid to Gazans already struggling to eat

19-10-2026 21:42 via cbc.ca

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) says ‌funding shortages are forcing major cuts to its aid program in Gaza, leaving about 500,000 people without monthly food support in a territory where two-thirds of the population struggle to get enough to eat.

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Calgary Opera replaces performer who unfurled Palestinian flag during Tosca bow

19-10-2026 21:39 via cbc.ca

On Friday, the bass singer Gabriel Sanchez-Ortega held up the flag at the end of Giacomo Puccini's drama about love and betrayal during political upheaval in Napoleonic Rome.

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'You Can See Everything' sells out theatres, and people can't stop talking about it

19-10-2026 21:36 via cbc.ca

'You Can See Everything' is the movie everyone wants to talk about but no one wants spoiled. It's drawing big numbers at the box office.

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DFO searching for injured whale struck by B.C. Ferries vessel in Howe Sound

19-10-2026 21:28 via cbc.ca

Marine conservation officers are searching for an injured humpback whale that passengers aboard a B.C. Ferries vessel say they felt being struck on Sunday.

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N.L. man sentenced to 7 years in prison for shooting snowmobiler in the head

19-10-2026 21:22 via cbc.ca

A Port au Port West man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for shooting a snowmobiler in the head almost two years ago.

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N.L. man sentenced to 7 years in prison for shooting snowmobiler in head

19-10-2026 21:22 via cbc.ca

A Port au Port West man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for shooting a snowmobiler in the head almost two years ago.

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The Simpsons' Apu is back in Springfield after nearly a decade — with a new voice

19-10-2026 20:40 via cbc.ca

Apu Nahasapeemapetilon has spoken on The Simpsons for the first time since 2017, returning in Sunday's episode, "Treehouse of Horror Presents: The Revengening." The character has appeared in the background in the years since, but remained silent amid criticism that he reinforced racial stereotypes.

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Police issue curfew in Paris after weekend rioting over cost of living, school conditions

19-10-2026 20:31 via cbc.ca

Paris police issued an overnight curfew on Monday in two areas of the French capital in efforts to prevent further violence, after a weekend marred by France's worst rioting in years that targeted city halls, other public buildings and thousands of businesses across the country.

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Former Winnipeg mayor Sam Katz violated public trust, ex-CAO lacked moral compass, police HQ inquiry says

19-10-2026 20:00 via cbc.ca

Former Winnipeg mayor Sam Katz “violated the public trust” and former city chief administrative officer Phil Sheegl displayed “a complete lack of a moral compass” by engaging in "blatant" conflicts of interest involving the owner of the construction company awarded the contract to build the city’s police headquarters, the provincial public inquiry into the scandal-plagued project concluded.

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Quebec's reserves of maple syrup almost depleted, says new report

19-10-2026 19:41 via cbc.ca

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Harness driver dies after multi-horse collision at Osoyoos, B.C., raceway

19-10-2026 19:36 via cbc.ca

Desert Park Raceway says 52-year-old harness driver Scott Knight died after a multi-horse collision at the track in Osoyoos, B.C., on Sunday.

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7 players to make worlds debut as Canadian women's hockey team looks to youth

19-10-2026 19:32 via cbc.ca

The Canadian women's hockey team will take a young roster to the world championship in Denmark next month. It will be the first major tournament since the Canadians lost the Olympic final to the U.S. in February.

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6 players to make worlds debut as Canadian women's hockey team looks to youth

19-10-2026 19:32 via cbc.ca

The Canadian women's hockey team will take a young roster to the world championship in Denmark next month. It will be the first major tournament since the Canadians lost the Olympic final to the U.S. in February.

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