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Oct 07, 2026
Refugee rights advocates say they are shocked to hear that the federal immigration minister appeared in an interview with Radio-Canada to be unfamiliar with the landmark Supreme Court decision widely considered to be the cornerstone of the Canadian refugee protection system.
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Oct 07, 2026
The first-ever international guidelines on managing childhood obesity are raising the profile of GLP-1 treatments for kids and teens — but with strict criteria and a high degree of caution.
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Oct 07, 2026
Firefighters have raised alarms about hot, fast, hard-to-extinguish fires in lithium batteries from e-bikes in people's homes and huge storage batteries at a P.E.I. solar farm. Here's why lithium battery fires are a challenge and how to minimize the risks.
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Oct 06, 2026
U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he has a call scheduled with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a possible case of plague at a Siberian research institute.
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Oct 06, 2026
For the first time in over a decade, Quebec has elected a separatist party in its provincial elections, even though most Quebecers don't want to secede from Canada. Andrew Chang explains how the fall of the incumbent Coalition Avenir Québec led to the rise of the Parti Québécois and its leader, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, and why sovereignty became a separate issue for voters.
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Oct 06, 2026
The Crown provided an overview of it's case against self-described 'Crypto King' Aiden Pleterski at the first day of his trial Tuesday. Prosecutors allege the 27-year-old spent investor money on himself, including exotic cars, flights on private jets and credit card bills in the millions, instead of investing it in cryptocurrency and foreign exchange like he told his investors.
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Oct 06, 2026
The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration says it is investigating after a Delta Air Lines plane "clipped" an Air Canada aircraft at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday.
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Oct 06, 2026
Eva Marie Saint, the pale, willowy actor who won an Academy Award for her first movie, On the Waterfront, and starred opposite Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller North by Northwest, has died. She was 102.
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Oct 06, 2026
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation on Tuesday into whether Fruit of the Loom and Hanes use toxic chemicals in producing ?children's underwear.
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Oct 06, 2026
Christa Pike, a Tennessee inmate who survived Tennessee's attempt to execute her, is awake and speaking as she receives treatment at a hospital, her attorneys said Tuesday.
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Oct 06, 2026
A U.S. Marine was arrested this week on suspicion of robbing and killing a local woman in Okinawa. The killing has drawn outrage on the island and inflamed longstanding tensions over U.S. military bases, which residents say are a source of noise, pollution and violent crime against women.
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Oct 06, 2026
The influencer, who goes by Abeeeer on popular Chinese social media platform Rednote, or Xiaohongshu, posted a "sincere apology" for violating the rules Saturday to her 520,000 followers, explaining that she was feeling physically unwell during the race but that it wasn't an excuse.
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Oct 06, 2026
A California couple has been arrested on child abuse charges following an investigation into an surrogacy scheme involving at least 21 children ranging in age from a few months to 13 years, authorities said Tuesday.
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Oct 06, 2026
Viewers of Big Brother U.K. are criticizing its contestants after the show aired a tense debate about transgender rights, pronouns, single-sex bathrooms and trans athletes in sports.
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Oct 06, 2026
Justice Minister Sean Fraser says the Liberal government will announce its planned path forward for medical assistance in dying on Wednesday.
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Oct 06, 2026
Christine Fréchette, Quebec's outgoing premier, announced Tuesday that she will be stepping down as leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec party.
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Oct 06, 2026
Meetings between advocates of Alberta separation and American government officials don't have to be included in Canada's new foreign influence registry because they took place before the registry went into effect, says Canada's foreign influence watchdog.
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Oct 06, 2026
A former high-ranking Department of Justice official will look at how Cornell handles sexual misconduct complaints, university trustees announced Tuesday as they tried to address an outpouring of anger over allegations of a 2024 gang rape at a fraternity house.
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Oct 06, 2026
A series of audio stories, released as part of a new NHL marketing campaign and presented like popular hockey romance novels, is no longer available on Spotify after drawing widespread criticism.
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Oct 06, 2026
Prime Minister Mark Carney said the morning after the separatist Parti Québécois's electoral victory that the province and Canada can together fight for the prosperity of their people to ensure "we can live the way we want to live."
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Oct 06, 2026
A U.S. appeals court has upheld the verdict and sentence for one of the men found guilty of human smuggling in a case that led to a family of four from India freezing to death while attempting to cross the Manitoba-U.S. border in 2022.
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Oct 06, 2026
The World Health Organization says Russian authorities told it that no cases ?of plague had been detected among anyone who had come into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker who died last week.
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Oct 06, 2026
Canadian actor Simu Liu, star of Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, has tied the knot, marrying music industry executive Allison Hsu.
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Oct 06, 2026
Nearly 12,000 bans took place in American public schools over the past year, according to a new study from PEN America, the highest total since the free expression organization began tracking removals five years ago.
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Oct 06, 2026
Direct spending on the Canadian military could reach $163.6 billion by 2035 under the Liberal government's proposal to meet NATO's benchmark target of five per cent of GDP, the Parliamentary Budget Office in a new report on Tuesday.
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Oct 06, 2026
An 18-year-old resident of Yorkton, Sask., is facing terrorism charges for allegedly posting videos as a member of 764, a listed terrorist entity in Canada.
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Oct 06, 2026
The Emmy Awards are moving to Prime Video starting in 2027 in a six-year deal struck between Amazon and the Television Academy that ends a seven-decade run of broadcast networks airing the ceremony.
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Oct 06, 2026
Skydance-owned Paramount has closed its $81 billion US takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, further concentrating power in an industry already run by just a handful of major players.
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Oct 06, 2026
Skydance-owned Paramount has closed its $81 billion US takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, further concentrating power in an industry already run by just a handful of major players.
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Oct 06, 2026
Expect lots of tears when Lionel Messi plays a farewell game for Argentina on Tuesday. The friendly against Benin in Buenos Aires has been dubbed "The Night That No One Wants to End" as Messi plays for his country one last time.
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Oct 06, 2026
The new company will operate as Emera and maintain its public company headquarters in Halifax. The merged company will be worth about $72 billion and will be one of Canada's largest utilities.
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Oct 06, 2026
The new company will operate as Emera and maintain its public company headquarters in Halifax. The merged company will be one of Canada's largest utilities.
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Oct 06, 2026
After pausing work at the Martin Gallant Building in Stephenville Crossing this past summer, the Newfoundland and Labrador government says the building needs to be demolished, axing plans for it to become the new courthouse and provincial government services building. Mayor Lisa Lucas is now worried about what it means for her community.
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Oct 06, 2026
Canada's trade surplus with the U.S. hit a 19-month high in August, Statistics Canada reported on Tuesday.
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Oct 06, 2026
Former Conservative Member of Parliament Chris Alexander has dropped out of the race to become Toronto's next mayor.
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Oct 06, 2026
Police have fired tear gas and water cannons at protesters blockading French high schools as students, teachers and parents take to the streets on the biggest day of action in a wave of demonstrations against understaffed and dilapidated classrooms.
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Oct 06, 2026
Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said two commercial vessels were struck by drones on Tuesday in the first attack on shipping in the NATO member's exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea.
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Oct 06, 2026
Belgian American particle physicist Francis Halzen was announced as the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday in Stockholm.
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Oct 06, 2026
Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful The PTL Club TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86.
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Oct 06, 2026
Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful The PTL Club TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died. He was 86.
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Oct 06, 2026
A researcher on sexual violence says it's good that people are talking about the inappropriate banner displayed on an off-campus house during St. Francis Xavier University's homecoming, but the conversation must continue.
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Oct 06, 2026
Three ash trees killed by the emerald ash borer now stand upside down at the Fredericton Botanic Garden. What began as a joke has become a popular attraction — and a reminder of the threat facing hundreds of ash trees on the property.
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Oct 06, 2026
For a young woman in St. John's, the anticipation of her 21st birthday was anything but exciting.
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Oct 06, 2026
Food manufacturers and fast food companies are cramming whey protein into everything. That's causing shortages of the ingredient and pushing prices to record highs. Now whey protein is also a target in the U.S.-Canada trade war - increasing costs that may end up being passed on to customers.
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Oct 06, 2026
Food manufacturers and fast food companies are cramming whey protein into everything. That's causing shortages of the ingredient and pushing prices to record highs. Now whey protein is also a target in the U.S.-Canada trade war - increasing costs that may end up being passed on to customers.
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Oct 06, 2026
A giant underwater wave of water connected to this year's El Niño weather pattern is making its way up the west coast of the Americas, raising alarm bells amongst scientists worried about how climate change is magnifying the impacts of the naturally-occurring phenomenon.
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Oct 06, 2026
For weeks, posters and stickers across Ottawa advertising the anti-immigration group Dominion Society of Canada — which is calling for mass deportations of millions of people — have been generating complaints of racism and white nationalism. But police say the materials reported so far do not constitute hate crimes, and the group's chair and founder says the recruitment campaign is not going to stop.
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Oct 06, 2026
Self-described "Crypto King" Aiden Pleterski's fraud and money laundering trial will begin Tuesday morning in Toronto.
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Oct 06, 2026
Thirty-two years after a 10-year-old boy was tied to a tree and sexually assaulted, an audio tape of his September 1994 police interview was played for the jury Monday at the trial of his alleged attacker. Richard Neil has pleaded not guilty to 17 historical charges linked to attacks on three children.
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Oct 05, 2026
The U.S. Coast Guard has named all six people, including four Canadians, aboard an Ontario-based air ambulance that went missing off the coast of Massachusetts on Saturday.
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Oct 05, 2026
The U.S. Coast Guard has named all six people, including four Canadian crew members and two Bermudian passengers, aboard an Ontario-based air ambulance that went missing off the coast of Massachusetts on Saturday.
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Oct 05, 2026
Former UBC professor and bestselling author Steven Galloway claims he was defamed by false accusations of sexual assault made by multiple people over a decade ago.
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Oct 05, 2026
A Toronto lawyer who co-founded a law firm with his wife that collapsed in a spectacular flameout three years ago, when millions of dollars of client money was discovered missing from the firm's trust account, is on trial on a charge of fraud stemming from the police investigation into the case.
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Oct 05, 2026
A Royal Canadian Air Force sergeant who refused to leave a restricted area of Winnipeg's 17 Wing has been found not guilty of assaulting the military police officers who had removed her from the base using what a martial court ruled involved the use of excessive force.
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Oct 05, 2026
Oct. 5, 2026 | Parti Québécois will form the province's next minority government — the first win for the party in more than a decade. International concern as a Russian lab worker dies after reportedly catching the plague. And why Canada is stepping in to help young men struggling with mental health.
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Oct 05, 2026
An unnerving story has emerged from southeastern Russia involving the death of 28-year-old woman from pneumonia and fears that she may have been exposed to a form of plague at the lab where she worked. But the
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Oct 05, 2026
The Liberal government plans to transform its year-old Defence Investment Agency into a Crown corporation. The proposed overhaul could fundamentally reshape Canada's notoriously cumbersome defence procurement system, while raising fresh questions about oversight, accountability and how far Ottawa will go.
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Oct 05, 2026
This University of Alberta student isn't real, but the AI-generated video is being used to promote Alberta separatism ahead of the Oct. 19 provincial referendum.
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Oct 05, 2026
CBC News chief correspondent Adrienne Arsenault first met Barry Sward in the months after 9/11 when he was a young military recruit ready to fight in the ‘war on terror.' Twenty four years later, she tracked him down to find out if he got what he signed up for.
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Oct 05, 2026
A former music pastor in Ohio who appeared briefly on American Idol was sentenced Monday to life in prison without the possibility of parole, after a jury convicted him last week of murdering his wife while he was having an affair.
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Oct 05, 2026
A Milwaukee couple was awarded a $575,000 US settlement from the city after armed police officers showed up at their homes 55 times in two years responding to bogus reports of violent crimes.
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Oct 05, 2026
Who in the Manitoba government decided to exclude Tesla from the province's electric vehicle rebate program, and why, is still unclear following a court hearing on the decision, the company's lawyers argue.
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Oct 05, 2026
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul declared a statewide disaster emergency on Monday over a measles outbreak, the first such declaration ?by a U.S. state since cases began surging in ?2025. New York has reported 108 measles ?cases so far this year, with seven cases in New York City and 101 elsewhere in the state.
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Oct 05, 2026
Marvel's Avengers: Endgame has recaptured its title as the highest-grossing movie of all time this weekend (not accounting for inflation). It overtook James Cameron's biggest release with a gross of $2.9255 billion US, narrowly superseding Avatar's $2.9237 billion US.
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Oct 05, 2026
Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says "gaps" in Canada's security screening need to be addressed following the arrest of a Canadian NATO intern in Belgium on espionage charges.
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Oct 05, 2026
Prosecutors told a jury in Brampton, Ont., on Monday, how DNA evidence had linked three brutal attacks against children in the 1990s to Richard Neil, now 67 and on trial for charges including kidnapping, sexual assault causing bodily harm and administering a stupefying drug.
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Oct 05, 2026
The town of Foam Lake is mourning after 3 people died in a crash on Friday.
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Oct 05, 2026
Norwegian authorities say a ban on the use of smart glasses could apply to places where "privacy is particularly important," like health-care facilities or fitness centres with changing rooms and showers.
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Oct 05, 2026
RCMP have issued an Amber Alert for a 7-year-old girl who police say was abducted from her home in northwest Alberta.
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Oct 05, 2026
Alex Ovechkin said Monday his 22nd season in the National Hockey League will be his last, beginning the farewell tour for the longtime Washington Capitals captain who holds the league's career goalscoring record.
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Oct 05, 2026
A teenager's hand was blown off as high-school protesters clashed with riot police in northern France on Monday, a local official said, on ?the eve of a national demonstration by the pupils' union against underfunding, overcrowding and dilapidation.
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Oct 05, 2026
Alberta's population continues to grow — and faster than almost all of Canada, Statistics Canada's latest population estimates suggest.
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Oct 05, 2026
U.A.E. authorities and FlyDubai have not publicly disclosed the identity of the co-pilot, who stabbed his captain in ?a suspected attempt to crash a plane en route to Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv last week.
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Oct 05, 2026
Premier Danielle Smith's efforts to satisfy the party faithful with an independence referendum may have unintentionally breathed life into the opposition NDP.
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Oct 05, 2026
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is taking the police to court to challenge his February arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office over allegations he sent confidential government documents to Jeffrey Epstein.
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Oct 05, 2026
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called an early election for Nov. 29 on Monday, in a bid to strengthen his mandate after a fragmented parliament rejected the government's key housing decrees last week amid widespread protests.
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Oct 05, 2026
Scientists Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg ?Nagel won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or ?Medicine for "discoveries concerning light-gated ?ion channels and optogenetics," the award-giving body ?said Monday.
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Oct 05, 2026
The Giller Prize annually recognizes the best in Canadian fiction. The five authors shortlisted are Tara Gereaux, Michelle Good, Nicholas Herring, Nazanine Hozar and Patmeena Sabit.
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Oct 05, 2026
A column questioning the deaths of children at residential schools has led the Southern Chiefs' Organization to condemn the Winnipeg Sun and express concern that the newspaper's CEO is running for mayor of the Manitoba capital.
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Oct 05, 2026
Build Canada Homes promises to scale up the delivery of affordable housing at a time when industry leaders are raising the alarm about the lagging pace of housing development across the country. After one year of existence, the agency has only begun construction of about 2,000 units.
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Oct 05, 2026
The most comprehensive study yet of maternal health in Canada has found that Black Canadians face a much higher risk of serious complications during pregnancy, labour, delivery and postpartum than white people — underlining the urgent need for better data tracking and tools to eliminate systemic anti-Black racism in our health-care system, researchers and advocates say.
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Oct 05, 2026
It's Oct. 5, which means Quebecers are heading to the polls today to shape the province's political future and determine who will lead the next government.
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Oct 05, 2026
A new community in southeast Ottawa was sold as a unique chance for reconciliation with Algonquin people, but it turns out the Algonquin corporation partnering with Taggart Group is now led by the Taggarts themselves.
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Oct 05, 2026
The federal government launched a nationwide consultation earlier this year to try and determine why boys and men's health is suffering. Data they reported on shows a country of young men self-reporting higher rates of depression and anxiety — and experts say the online manosphere is making things worse.
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Oct 05, 2026
The federal government launched a nationwide consultation earlier this year to try and determine why boys and men's health is suffering. Data they reported on shows a country of young men self-reporting higher rates of depression and anxiety — and experts say the online manosphere is making things worse.
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Oct 04, 2026
Brandon Vickerd tells The National about the moment his UFO art installation drew a crowd at Toronto's 2026 Nuit Blanche art festival.
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Oct 04, 2026
The woman who has alleged she was drugged and raped by ?Cornell University students has been the target of threats, her lawyer said on Sunday.
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Oct 04, 2026
Flávio Bolsonaro, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil's veteran president, will face off on Oct. 25 in a run-off for the top job of Latin America's powerhouse economy.
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Oct 04, 2026
Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, an ally of U.S. President Donald Trump, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Brazil's veteran president, will face off on Oct. 25 in a run-off for the top job of Latin America's powerhouse economy.
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Oct 04, 2026
Bosnian Serb nationalist politician Milorad Dodik has declared victory for his party in an election in Bosnia on Sunday that was shaped by economic pressures, the prospect of the Balkan nation joining the European Union and ethnic tensions that have divided the country since its brutal 1992-95 war.
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Oct 04, 2026
British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby says his party will introduce a new tax bracket for those who earn $1 million or more to help pay for health care, if re-elected.
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Oct 04, 2026
A dozen B-1 bombers used in U.S. strikes on Iran had been deployed to RAF Fairford, northwest of London, which was targeted in a suspected terror plot.
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Oct 04, 2026
With cost estimates between $75-$113 billion, what questions do you have?
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Oct 04, 2026
Amber Marshall has grown up on Heartland, the long-running CBC drama that mirrors her real-life love of horses and ranch life. As the show celebrates its 20th season, its cast, characters and global fans continue to find comfort and connection in its stories.
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Oct 04, 2026
A sign hung outside an off-campus house in Antigonish, N.S., during St. Francis Xavier University's homecoming weekend is being described as an example of rape culture and has drawn condemnation from two universities and a professor who teaches at St. FX.
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Oct 04, 2026
A University of British Columbia researcher says the finding is unusual but no longer unexpected due to warming waters worldwide, including in Canada.
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