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Nova Scotia’s Drake Batherson signed an eight-year, $86-million extension with the Ottawa Senators hours before a new collective bargaining agreement ended eight-year contracts, making him the highest-paid player in franchise history.
Brookfield Corporation chief executive Bruce Flatt told the firm’s 2026 Investor Day in New York that the artificial intelligence race is being held back by physical limits on power and computing capacity, not by a shortage of capital.
Ottawa home sales fell 18.6% in August, nearly triple the national drop, but the city’s benchmark price rose 1% as CREA’s national index fell 3%.
The RCMP’s recruitment strategy and the auditor general’s 2026 report put the same year’s officer shortfall 1,200 apart, and neither plan closes it.
Three funds worth US$2.5B launched in one week at Carney’s investment summit, racing to keep Canadian AI firms from selling abroad or relocating south.
Ottawa quietly killed its newest caregiver immigration pathway, leaving applicants facing a 76-month wait as senior care demand keeps climbing.
FBI Director Kash Patel briefly paused cooperation with the RCMP this month over a CBC memo on 9/11 terminology, the New York Times reports, as Ottawa and Washington play down the rift.
Skip the rake. Raise your mower deck, take the bag off and cut fallen leaves into pieces small enough that grass still shows through, then repeat weekly.
Elections Canada’s register still shows no final campaign return for three registered third parties, 13 months after the filing deadline passed.












