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Ontario will let people with mild hearing loss buy hearing aids without a prescription, opening the door to hearing features in earbuds such as AirPods Pro.
Ottawa is consulting on its first comprehensive space law and has released a framework to protect GPS-style navigation and timing signals Canadians rely on.
Ottawa unveiled a $1.75B Venture and Growth Capital Plan, including a first $75M stream for pre-seed and seed startups, with bids open until Jan. 21, 2027.
More than 5,000 CUPE school support workers in Nova Scotia could walk off the job as early as Monday after a conciliator declared a bargaining impasse.
Four countries signed the Badr memorandum in Doha on Oct. 21 to cooperate on joint military production, training and research.
The Trump administration is asking the justices to pause a federal judge’s order that halted border wall construction in Texas’ Big Bend region while a challenge to environmental waivers proceeds.
Italy’s cabinet approved aid for hauliers, farmers and fishermen on Oct. 22 as fuel-price blockades left shelves bare and two Calabrian airports without jet fuel.
The European Parliament gave its 2026 Sakharov Prize to the International Criminal Court on Oct. 22, two weeks after the United States sanctioned the court.
Five well-rated smart thermostats on Amazon.ca, from ecobee and Google Nest to a Mysa model for electric baseboard heaters, with prices from $99.
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Vancouver Coastal Health urges anyone who touched a skunk in the West End or Stanley Park from Sept. 22 to Oct. 17 to get assessed after a rabies case.
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Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl each had five points and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins scored in the shootout as the Edmonton Oilers beat the Carolina Hurricanes 6-5.
A Montreal mother and her 10-year-old daughter are among Canadians stuck in Panama after earthquakes closed the airport, and say Ottawa has not contacted them.
Netflix will release the three-part docuseries The One About Matthew Perry on Oct. 27, one day before the third anniversary of the Friends star’s death.
Pakistan’s president declared an emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Oct. 11 and suspended the provincial government run by Imran Khan’s PTI, as the party prepares a march on Islamabad.
President Donald Trump has chosen conservative commentator Katie Zacharia to replace Karoline Leavitt as White House press secretary, weeks before the U.S. midterm elections.
Alberta will let landowners drain temporary and seasonal wetlands on private cropland without Water Act approval, a change conservationists say puts habitat at risk.
















































