Winnipeg Sun - Local (25 minutes ago)
If you hear the word "catalyze” used to describe an action, what comes to mind? How about "stranded assets,” the "sovereign cloud,” or a "hinge moment in history”? You got it. These are some of the Prime Minister's favourite ingredients in his verbal salad. He is doing his best to replace the Leader of His […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (25 minutes ago)
By Ahmed Al-haj And Samy Magdy ADEN, Yemen (AP) — The airspace of war-torn Yemen was briefly closed Monday, an official said, as tensions escalated in the country’s south after a separatist group, backed by the United Arab Emirates, took over an oil-rich region in a rift that could fracture the anti-Houthi alliance. A Yemeni […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (25 minutes ago)
By Glenn Gamboa Michael R. Bloomberg has believed mayors have plenty to teach each other since he was mayor of New York City and supported the effort to share good municipal ideas through his nonprofit Bloomberg Philanthropies since he left office in 2013. However, as more nations get bogged down in what the media entrepreneur […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (25 minutes ago)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pamela Smith, who was catapulted into national attention after President Donald Trump moved to federalize Washington’s police force and who worked to confront rising violence in the nation’s capital, is stepping down as the city’s police chief, Mayor Muriel Bowser said Monday. Smith, appointed in 2023, had been brought in...
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (25 minutes ago)
U.S. President Donald Trump has unleashed the most extensive diplomatic effort to end the fighting in Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion nearly four years ago, but Washington’s efforts have run into sharply conflicting demands by Moscow and Kyiv. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to meet Monday with European allies as he...
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (25 minutes ago)
Economists widely expect the Bank of Canada will hold its benchmark interest rate steady this week and move to the sidelines to cap off a year dominated by trade and economic uncertainty. The central bank's policy rate stands at 2.25 % heading into its final rate decision of the year on Wednesday — a whole […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (25 minutes ago)
Air Transat pilots set the stage for a strike as early as Wednesday morning, issuing a 72-hour notice to the struggling company on the cusp of the busy holiday travel season. The Air Line Pilots Association said Sunday it filed the strike notice after failing to find common ground following nearly a year of negotiations […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (25 minutes ago)
By Munir Ahmed ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s newly appointed armed forces chief called on Afghanistan’s Taliban government on Monday to choose between maintaining ties with Islamabad or supporting the Pakistani Taliban, the militant group blamed for a surge in deadly attacks in recent years. Gen. Asim Munir made his remarks at his headquarters...
ReadCBC - Toronto (29 minutes ago)
CBC News reviewed the latest three years of fraud statistics released since its investigative series The Cost of Fraud revealed that only a fraction of fraud cases were making it through Ontario's justice system a few years ago. The new numbers from Statistics Canada show the problem has only gotten worse, and have some experts pointing to...
ReadCBC - Montreal (29 minutes ago)
Companies involved in the F-35 program are actively lobbying the governments of Canada and Quebec to promote potential economic benefits for the country, including a maintenance facility in Mirabel, Que., that could service both Canadian and American fighter fleets.
ReadCBC - Saskatchewan (30 minutes ago)
CBC's Shlok Talati joins The 306 to talk about the Vancouver Whitecaps Academy in Saskatchewan, and its impact on Saskatchewan soccer.
ReadCBC - Saskatchewan (30 minutes ago)
Wild boars have been declared "a pest in all circumstances" by the Alberta government effective Dec. 1, meaning new restrictions have been placed on keeping them in captivity and hunting them in the wild.
ReadCBC - Saskatchewan (30 minutes ago)
With Saskatchewan's fall legislative sitting coming to an end, the Morning Edition's weekly political panel breaks down the highlights, including a report of a $427-million projected deficit.The panel features pundit Murray Mandryk, CBC's Alexander Quon and Morning Edition host Adam Hunter.
ReadCBC - Saskatchewan (30 minutes ago)
Timothy Smith was acting in self-defence when he punched Landon Waddell, and shouldn't be found guilty of manslaughter, his lawyer says. The Crown prosecutor in the case disagrees, arguing Smith's account of events is "self-serving" and "victim-blaming."
ReadCBC - Saskatchewan (30 minutes ago)
The case of two Saskatoon cops fighting to get their jobs back has become more complicated. Constables Dylan Kemp and Jason Garland were fired in September. Their lawyer appealed — but didn't file the papers properly.
ReadCBC - Saskatchewan (30 minutes ago)
In its throne speech, the provincial government touted The Compassionate Intervention Act as a key component in its response to the ongoing drug addictions crisis.
ReadCBC - Saskatchewan (30 minutes ago)
Maidstone RCMP say three men tried to rob a homeowner and then fled in a grey Ford F150, damaging the front right passenger side.
ReadCBC - Saskatchewan (30 minutes ago)
Seventeen-year-old Semir Ali dreamed of being a professional wrestler. When he fell ill and was later diagnosed with ulcerative colitis, he knew he had to fight his way back into better health to fulfill his goals.
ReadCBC - Saskatchewan (30 minutes ago)
The Saskatchewan Union of Nurses is calling for changes after an incident last month involving a person who brought a shotgun and several knives to St. Paul's Hospital, according to the union.
ReadCBC - Saskatchewan (30 minutes ago)
Edwin Woolhether, 68, was convicted of one count of sexual assault earlier this year, but found not guilty of sexual interference for touching a then four-year-old girl in his bathroom while they were alone together in 2007.
ReadCBC - Saskatchewan (30 minutes ago)
Regina police, RCMP warn of 'grandparent scams,' with over $40K reported lost
ReadCBC - Saskatchewan (30 minutes ago)
CBC News compiled the data on school absences across Canada within the last five years. The analysis found that across the country more elementary and secondary students are missing school, including in the Regina and Saskatoon public divisions.
ReadCBC - Saskatchewan (30 minutes ago)
A class at Silverspring School in Saskatoon is one of 26 across the province taking part in the One School One Farm Shelterbelt Project. A non-profit pairs teachers and students with 'land partners' to help bring back native plants and the bees and butterflies that depend on them.
ReadCBC - Saskatchewan (30 minutes ago)
Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad's brutal regime last year, Turkish officials say more than 500,000 Syrians have returned home after living under temporary protection for several years in Turkey. For many of those travelling now, their crossing is a one-way trip, as once they leave with no immediate option to return legally to Turkey.
ReadCBC - Saskatchewan (30 minutes ago)
The retired master warrant officer is being considered to receive the Canadian Victoria Cross for his service in Afghanistan.
ReadCBC - Thunder Bay (30 minutes ago)
While watching the World Series this fall, you may have noticed a series of ads from the Ontario government about the Ring of Fire, a mineral deposit in the James Bay lowlands that's long been eyed as a critical mineral source. Critics are speaking out about the use of stock footage in the ads, saying it doesn't actually show the Ring of Fire....
ReadCBC - Thunder Bay (30 minutes ago)
Jails in northern Ontario are facing some of the worst overcrowding pressures in the province, with population data showing dramatic increases since 2019. Frontline workers and inmates are warning the conditions inside many facilities are increasingly unsafe.
ReadCBC - Windsor (30 minutes ago)
Pets are often seen as a member of the family, and because of that strong bond when a pet dies the grief can be difficult to deal with. The University of Guelph's Ontario Veterinary College has created an online Pet Loss Support Resource Centre that helps caregivers navigate grief.
ReadCBC - British Columbia (30 minutes ago)
Students at Dr. Kearney Middle School are learning to weld, machine, and even program their own self-driving EVs as part of a hands-on after-school program preparing them for the future of trades, where fabrication meets robotics and automation.
ReadCBC - Calgary (30 minutes ago)
Elections Alberta has given the official green light to four more recall campaigns, which can begin collecting signatures on Saturday. The new additions make 18 active campaigns, including the first opposition MLA to be the subject of a recall campaign.
ReadCBC - Calgary (30 minutes ago)
An Alberta judge says a referendum proposal on Alberta separating from Canada goes against Charter and Treaty rights, in a decision given less than 24 hours after the provincial government introduced legislation that would have ended the court proceeding.
ReadCBC - Calgary (30 minutes ago)
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilevre says his party's upcoming motion — which borrows language from the new Canada-Alberta energy agreement — is meant to force the Liberals to "put up or shut up" on whether they support a new oil pipeline to the Pacific coast.
ReadCBC - Calgary (30 minutes ago)
Danielle Smith was asked about the independence question Saturday on her radio call-in show, weighing in for the first time after her government proposed legislation that ground to a halt an ongoing court case over a proposed provincial vote to leave Canada.
ReadCBC - Edmonton (30 minutes ago)
Chief political correspondent Rosemary Barton speaks with Quebec Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault, who resigned from Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet last week, about his party's deal with Alberta for a potential pipeline to the west coast of B.C., and why he thinks the federal government is stoking Quebec separatism by walking back its climate...
ReadCBC - Edmonton (30 minutes ago)
Hinton's annual turkey drive is back, and this time it's also raising money to help recruit doctors and fund accommodations for new and temporary physicians. It also sees turkeys go to the Hinton Food Bank, where demand has more than tripled in the last five years.
ReadCBC - Newfoundland (30 minutes ago)
For the town of Small Point-Broad Cove-Blackhead-Adam's Cove, this year's firefighter appreciation dinner is not like the others. The North Shore Volunteer Fire Department hosts an evening of celebration for all the fire departments that picked up that call to duty last August. Looking beyond the province's devastating wildfire season, the...
ReadCalgary Sun - Local (An hour ago)
TV networks target Alberta Canada's national TV networks may deliver Alberta straight to independence. The national political affairs shows on one recent Sunday showed Albertans that all of Canada's national networks could barely contain their contempt for Alberta. Despite the results of a Nov. 27 Angus Reid poll saying the majority of Canadians...
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (An hour ago)
NUUK, Greenland (AP) — Greenland is hosting annual meetings with U.S. officials to discuss bilateral ties at the end of a year in which U.S. President Donald Trump ramped up talk of a U.S. takeover of the mineral-rich island that is a semiautonomous territory of Denmark. The meeetings starting Monday will include a bilateral “joint […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (An hour ago)
On Friday morning, Probe Research Associates sent an email entitled "Information on Safe Consumption Site Consultations” to selected recipients. It came as a surprise not only to the folks who got it, but also to the NDP government, which had postponed revealing the latest proposed location for the drug-use facility. When word got around that...
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (An hour ago)
By Lorne Cook BRUSSELS (AP) — A top European Union official on Monday warned the United States against interfering in Europe’s affairs and said only European citizens can decide which parties should govern them. European Council President Antonio Costa’s remarks came in reaction to the Trump administration’s new national security strategy,...
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (An hour ago)
By Grant Peck BANGKOK (AP) — A history of enmity between Thailand and Cambodia over competing territorial claims has broken into open combat again, just a few months after the two sides agreed to a ceasefire promoted by U.S. President Donald Trump to end their border fighting. The two Southeast Asian nations fought in July […]
ReadWinnipeg Sun - Local (An hour ago)
CAIRO (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization said Monday that the death toll from drone strikes on a kindergarten and other sites in Sudan’s Kordofan state last week is now at 114 people killed, including 63 children. WHO said there were three separate drone strikes on Kagoli last Thursday. The first targeted […]
ReadEdmonton Journal - Local (An hour ago)
Alberta's ambitions to build artificial intelligence data centres are attracting attention and investment from across North America — with potentially hundreds of proposed projects waiting for a green light and billions of dollars up for grabs. But some critics and even industry insiders warn there is a high risk many of these proposals will...
ReadSaskatoon Star-Phoenix - Local (An hour ago)
"Everybody thinks we're making millions, and I'm making less money. I'm paying myself less money now than I was in 2018."
ReadCalgary Herald - Local (An hour ago)
It’s the busy, holiday season. Give yourself a one-minute break with our editorial cartoons from the past week. For another visual take on the latest news and features, check out our new Graphic of the Week feature at calgaryherald.com/graphics.
ReadRegina Leader-Post - Local (An hour ago)
"We need to look to the future and to make this an enjoyable, livable, worthwhile place to live. These funding cuts are not adding to that process."
ReadCityNews - Toronto (An hour ago)
Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) are investigating a possible road rage shooting that forced the temporary closure of a busy stretch of Highway 401 overnight. The incident occurred between 1:30 and 1:40 a.m. on Monday, on the westbound lanes of Highway 401 between Guelph Line and Highway 6 South. According to the OPP Highway Safety Division, […]
ReadCityNews - Toronto (An hour ago)
Toronto city councillor James Pasternak (York Centre) is calling for swift action after mezuzahs were torn from doorposts at a seniors housing complex in North York, describing the incident as an act of hate against Jewish residents. Pasternak said all mezuzahs at 6250 Bathurst Street, a Toronto Seniors Housing Corporation (TSHC) building, were...
ReadCBC - Saskatoon (2 hours ago)
During budget talks last week, council voted unanimously to reduce the rates at which it compensates Saskatoon Light and Power customers who produce solar power and sell it to the electricity grid.
ReadCBC - Kitchener-Waterloo (2 hours ago)
Federal housing advocate Marie-Josée Houle has released a report with recommendations for how the federal government should continue to provide funding to municipalities to help them respond to homeless encampments. The report was informed by a visit Houle did in southern Ontario in September, which included stops in Kitchener and Cambridge.
ReadCBC - Saskatoon (2 hours ago)
Saskatoon city hall says police spending is projected to be $2.6 million over budget this year. That pushes the city into a $1.2-million deficit position, according to a report that will be considered by city council next week.
ReadCBC - Saskatoon (2 hours ago)
A city council advisory committee will consider a report Thursday suggesting a new neighbourhood be dubbed Hawthorn, after a tree and shrub species found near the area.
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