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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.
Prime Minister Mark Carney has named 13 people to a new National Council on Artificial Intelligence, the latest of several AI advisory bodies Ottawa has created.
Raphaël Glucksmann won the French centre-left presidential primary outright in the first round with about 66 per cent, Euronews reported, despite a cyberattack on voting.
Kyiv said it had no information on the energy ceasefire U.S. President Donald Trump announced Oct. 11, and Russia struck Kharkiv’s CHP-5 power plant soon after.
The national immunization guide says pregnant people should be offered the Tdap vaccine in every pregnancy, ideally between 27 and 32 weeks. Here is why the timing matters and how to get it.
Four polls released Oct. 8 to 10 give Flávio Bolsonaro a lead of about four to six points over President Lula ahead of Brazil’s Oct. 25 runoff.
















































