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Canadians voted on Oct. 30, 1972, and it took weeks to confirm the Liberals held a 109-107 edge over the Tories in a razor-thin minority result.
Parks Canada named the Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes a national historic event in 2024. Church roots, Africville ties and disputed firsts.
Apply for the disability tax credit with Form T2201: you complete Part A, a medical practitioner completes Part B, and the CRA decides.
Average asking rent fell 4.2% to $2,034 in September, the 24th straight annual drop, but Toronto and Vancouver rents are edging up again, Rentals.ca says.
Five died and 13 survived when Hercules 130322 crashed near Alert, Ellesmere Island, on Oct. 30, 1991, then waited out an Arctic storm for rescue.
The best-reviewed Halloween costumes on Amazon.ca for 2026, for women, men, couples, kids and dogs, including the trending Top Gun look.
Binance paused deposits and withdrawals after a hot-wallet hack that analysts and the exchange itself put at billions of dollars, and bitcoin fell about five per cent.
Four incumbents lost and five did not run in Winnipeg’s Oct. 28 election, leaving nine first-time councillors, in what CBC described as the biggest turnover since 1992.
Cole Caufield and Alex Newhook each scored twice and the Montreal Canadiens won their fourth straight on the road with a 5-2 victory over the Dallas Stars on Thursday.
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Four incumbents lost and five did not run in Winnipeg’s Oct. 28 election, leaving nine first-time councillors, in what CBC described as the biggest turnover since 1992.
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Restaurant and bar sales rose 0.3% to $8.9 billion in August, with four provinces rising and six falling, and Ontario, Quebec, B.C. and Alberta making 89% of sales.
Toronto scored three times in the first 8:37 at Vegas, but Jack Eichel’s penalty shot tied it and Trevor Connelly won it 4-3 in the fifth round of the shootout.
Bill C-39 passed second reading 296-26 with Conservative support and now goes to a committee, where unions want its strike-intervention changes removed.
Global Affairs Canada logged 577 cases of Canadians arrested or detained in the U.S. in 2025-26, up from 361, even as Canadian visits fell by a quarter.
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Toronto-born poet and classicist Anne Carson, 76, won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature, the second Canadian woman to do so after Alice Munro.















































