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Inuvik town council has approved renaming Stringer Road and part of Bompas Street to Ptarmigan Way, citing the names’ ties to the first residential school in the N.W.T.
Only Quebec and B.C. require winter tires by law. Here are the dates and rules in each province.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney will travel to St. John’s, Antigua and Barbuda, from Nov. 2 to 4 for his first Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.
Education Minister Joël Arseneau calls the ban non-negotiable, while Muslim, Sikh and Jewish representatives and Québec solidaire push back.
The following news release was issued by the Government of Ontario (Ministry of Finance) on October 28, 2026. Proposed tax…
The following news release was issued by the Government of Ontario (Ministry of Transportation). Province restores motor vehicle lanes between…
The following news release was issued by the Government of Ontario (Ministry of Natural Resources). New funding supports research to…
The following news release was issued by Foodtastic through Torchia Communications. Foodtastic celebrates prestigious Platinum win at the 2026 MarCom…
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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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Imperial Oil earned a record $2.454 billion in the third quarter as refining profits soared, even as oilsands output slipped and a pipeline outage shut Kearl for days.
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.
Ottawa’s new heat pump rebate offers up to $10,000 to households below the median income and $2,000 to others, with applications expected to open in early 2027.
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.













































