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Edmonton signed forward Alex Formenton, acquitted last year in the Hockey Canada sexual assault trial, to a one-year, $850,000 contract. An NHL suspension means he can’t suit up until December.
Apple’s Sept. 9 event brought Canadian pricing for the iPhone 18 Pro, Pro Max and folding iPhone Duo, plus quiet price hikes of up to $450 on the iPhone 17 lineup the same day.
Mark Carney and Volodymyr Zelenskyy will hold a signing ceremony in Calgary at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, following a 9 a.m. meeting and ahead of a joint media availability, according to a Prime Minister’s Office advisory issued Wednesday evening. The advisory does not say what the two leaders will sign.
Ottawa has publicly named about $213 million of its $500-million Youth Mental Health Fund. Totalling it requires three separate government pages.
Former Nike executive Heidi O’Neill became Lululemon’s chief executive on Sept. 8, five days after the retailer slashed its full-year outlook and sent shares to an eight-year low. Founder Chip Wilson, valued at US$6.5 billion by Forbes, still holds roughly 8.7 per cent of the company and is bound by a standstill that bars him from criticizing it publicly.
Statistics Canada says women in the highest-income families were 2.5 times more likely to have a first child in 2023 than those in the lowest, a gap that has widened since 2017.
Canada’s first national environmental justice strategy is nearly three months past the deadline written into the law that created it. The Act behind it, Green MP Elizabeth May’s bill C-226, required the strategy by June 20, 2026; the earliest it can now reach Parliament is the sitting beginning Sept. 21.
Statistics Canada’s second-quarter rent data shows asking rents down 3.6 per cent nationally, but in Calgary, Regina and Edmonton existing tenants pay more than new ones.
Federal records show roughly 79,000 pay transactions more than a year old remain in the queue, and the pace of clearing them fell sharply after the target date.
Empty and dry your humidifier daily and scrub it every third day. Health Canada and the U.S. EPA say dirty tanks can send bacteria and mould into the air.












