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UK consumer price inflation rose to 3.5 per cent in September from 3.1 per cent, led by a 29.8 per cent jump in motor fuel prices, and markets now expect the Bank of England to raise rates in November.
The UN’s top official in Haiti told the Security Council on Oct. 19 that gangs are adapting as security operations intensify and that elections are on hold indefinitely.
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.
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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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Some federal websites were taken offline Wednesday as a precaution against two critical PHP flaws, AI Minister Evan Solomon said. Fixed versions are PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35.
The SIU found no grounds to charge a Toronto officer who fired a less-lethal shotgun at a man inside Scarborough Centenary Hospital in June.
Canada’s banking regulator says frontier AI is speeding up cyberattacks and concentrating risk in a few providers, while calling resilience a competitive advantage.
China froze assets and barred two Latin American ministers on Oct. 12, two days after Taiwan’s National Day, citing opposition to Taiwan independence.
Hurricane Simon weakened to a Category 3 storm on Oct. 11 while moving along Mexico’s Pacific coast, flooding Manzanillo as ports and airports closed.
Four Republican and three Democratic senators said Congress banned Russian energy imports in 2022 and demanded the White House reverse its diesel deal with Moscow.


















































