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Manitoba says revenue from a levy on crypto mining and large AI data centres will lower residential Hydro bills by about $50 a year starting early in 2027.
Health Minister Marjorie Michel announced more than $6 million in Toronto on Oct. 20 for substance use and mental health crisis projects serving Black communities, funded under the Black Justice Strategy.
In a short work of fiction, Steven Kaszab tells of a new truck owner whose own dashboard cameras record his road rage.
A Houthi missile strike on a government security training camp in Shabwa province killed 73 recruits, Yemeni officials said, the deadliest attack in months.
Edmonton-area home sales fell 10.3 per cent from a year earlier in September as inventory rose 16.7 per cent, the Realtors Association of Edmonton said.
Putin told U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff that Russia is ready in principle to resume three-way Ukraine talks around Nov. 10, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said after a meeting in St. Petersburg.
Provincial inflation rates for September 2026, from Ontario at 2.5 per cent to P.E.I. at 5.7, with Statistics Canada sources and index levels.
The Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays open the 2026 World Series on Friday, Oct. 23, with the full schedule, start times and TV details for the best-of-seven series.
Polls in Toronto’s municipal election open Monday, Oct. 26, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Here is the ID to bring, how to find your voting place and what is on the ballot.
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Preliminary results show Vancouver voters said yes to all three borrowing questions for the 2027-2030 capital plan. The new council is sworn in on Nov. 2.
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Paul St-Pierre Plamondon was sworn in as Quebec premier on Oct. 21 with a 23-member PQ cabinet. Elsie Lefebvre takes higher education, housing, status of women and Lanaudière.
Toronto Public Health confirmed 14 mpox cases since September and urged eligible residents to get the two-dose vaccine. Here is who qualifies and how to book in Ontario, Alberta, B.C., Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
The evening edition covers Carney’s warning on the U.S.-Russia diesel deal, job cuts at Hopper, how to stop window condensation this winter and Felix Auger-Aliassime’s win in Shanghai.
Prime Minister Mark Carney used his Thanksgiving message to urge Albertans to stay in Canada a week before the Oct. 19 referendum on separation.
The morning edition covers Ottawa’s new national AI council, a whooping cough shot in every pregnancy, Alberta’s looser wetland drainage rules and Pakistan’s suspension of Imran Khan’s party’s provincial government.
Céline Dion slipped during her Oct. 7 show at her Paris residency, got back up and signalled to fans she was fine. Her first run ends Oct. 17.


















































