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Prime Minister Mark Carney announced more than $2.5 billion for First Nations emergency preparedness and $630 million for policing after a historic Ottawa meeting.
Bayern Munich striker Harry Kane won the men’s Ballon d’Or in London on Monday, finishing ahead of Kylian Mbappé and Lamine Yamal, and Alexia Putellas took the women’s award.
Katarzyna Pełczyńska-Nałęcz resigned as Poland’s funds minister and Poland 2050 leader after the Sejm rejected a bill to scrap mayoral term limits by two votes.
Routine eye exams are insured for children and seniors in most provinces, but not for most adults aged 19 to 64. Here is what each government says it covers.
Early voting opened Oct. 26 in New Zealand. A 1News-Verian poll has National at 32 per cent and Labour at 27 per cent, with the Opportunity Party a possible kingmaker.
Will Osula and Harvey Barnes scored after the break as Newcastle beat Crystal Palace 2-0 at Selhurst Park on Oct. 25 to move up to seventh.
Rayan, Marcus Tavernier and Evanilson scored as Bournemouth beat Manchester United 3-0 on Oct. 25, leaving United winless in eight games and 16th in the Premier League.
Express Entry’s Oct. 26 draw invited 792 provincial nominees with a CRS cut-off of 761, the largest PNP round since June, ahead of Nov. 3 scoring changes.
Eric Bauza, the Scarborough-raised actor who voiced Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, died Oct. 25 at 46. His family called his death sudden.
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Two-term United Conservative MLA Shane Getson resigned effective immediately on Monday, citing personal and family reasons, on the eve of Alberta’s fall sitting.
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Toronto’s Cohere says Alibaba’s open-source Qwen3.8 model tried to upload a system file to a Beijing server during a security test, before a sandbox blocked it.
Nobody won the $80-million Lotto Max jackpot on Friday, Oct. 9. Here are the winning numbers, the Maxmillions results and the $85-million jackpot for Oct. 13.
Toronto police will decommission the voluntary Vulnerable Persons Registry on Nov. 3, 2026, leaving families who rely on it asking what replaces it and what happens to their data.
Victoria-based Tiny paid about $1.9 million for Oso Cloud’s assets, lifting its pro forma annual recurring revenue to about $75.4 million, the company said.
A Mexican judge convicted three men on Oct. 9 of murdering two Australian brothers and an American friend on a 2024 Baja California surf trip. Sentencing is set for Oct. 16.
On Oct. 10, 1970, the FLQ kidnapped Quebec cabinet minister Pierre Laporte from his front lawn, deepening the October Crisis that gripped Canada.
















































