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Quebecers descend on Winnipeg for Grey Cup — unwashed jerseys in tow
By Canadian Press on November 14th, 2025
MONTREAL — Jarrod Dyer Cambridge says he can go another week before washing his Tyson Philpot jersey — at least until the end of Sunday’s Grey Cup championship between the Montreal Alouettes and Saskatchewan Roughriders. The Montrealer hasn’t washed the wide receiver’s No. 6 jersey since the Canadian Football League season began in June and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Former immigration minister says Canada’s reputation on welcoming refugees is at risk
By Canadian Press on November 14th, 2025
OTTAWA — Former immigration minister Lloyd Axworthy, a prominent global champion for refugees, said he believes Canada is putting its reputation as a welcoming place for refugees at risk through recent federal policy shifts. Those shifts, he said, include the Carney government’s new border security bill, C-12, which would limit the ability of individuals who ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Soraya Martinez Ferrada officially sworn in as mayor of Montreal
By Canadian Press on November 13th, 2025
MONTREAL — Montreal can develop the ambition to become one of the world’s great metropolises, Mayor Soraya Martinez Ferrada said Thursday as she was formally sworn in during a ceremony at city hall. Martinez Ferrada, who arrived in Canada as a child refugee from Chile in 1980, takes over from outgoing mayor Valérie Plante, who ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A look at the second batch of projects being weighed by the Major Projects Office
By Canadian Press on November 13th, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney has revealed the second batch of potentially “nation-building” infrastructure projects to be reviewed on expedited timelines, making good on his promise to make the announcement before the Grey Cup football championship this weekend. The projects being referred to the new Major Projects Office include an LNG export terminal and electrical transmission ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Deep burial’ for ostriches at B.C. landfill as CFIA completes cull and disposal work
By Canadian Press on November 13th, 2025
OTTAWA — The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it has completed its “active operations” at the British Columbia ostrich farm where its flock was culled by professional marksmen following an outbreak of avian flu. A statement from the agency says the carcasses of 314 ostriches as well as eggs and other material were disposed of ... Read More »
1 responseRuling in 2026 on high-risk offender status for man in fatal Quebec daycare crash
By Canadian Press on November 13th, 2025
MONTREAL — A Superior Court judge says he will rule in 2026 on whether to assign high-risk offender status to a Quebec man who killed two children and injured six others when he drove a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023. Justice Éric Downs made the comments Thursday at the Laval, Que., courthouse ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. Attorney General ‘deeply disturbed’ by social media giant’s intimate image case
By Canadian Press on November 13th, 2025
VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s Attorney General says she’s “deeply disturbed” that the social media company X has filed a legal challenge against an order to remove a non-consensual intimate image from the internet. Nikki Sharma says the social media firm is challenging a “clear order” from B.C.’s Civil Resolution Tribunal to remove an image from ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Conservatives demand probe into Ottawa’s loss of $20M in pharmaceutical products
By Canadian Press on November 13th, 2025
OTTAWA — Conservative health critic Dan Mazier said Thursday he intends to ask for a committee investigation to find out how the Public Health Agency of Canada lost more than $20-million worth of pharmaceutical products from the national emergency stockpile. The loss was mentioned as a single line item in the 2025 public accounts, the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Government spends $19 billion on external services, despite vow to trim spending
By Canadian Press on November 13th, 2025
OTTAWA — Government records show the federal government spent more than $19 billion on external professional and special services in 2024-25 — an increase of almost $2 billion since last year and of about $8.5 billion since 2020. The Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat says the increase in spending on professional and special services is ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. judge says self-defence can include expelling someone who has outstayed welcome
By Canadian Press on November 13th, 2025
DUNCAN — A B.C. Supreme Court judge says self-defence rules that allow people to arm themselves against an intruder can also include situations where someone refuses to leave after initially being welcomed. The ruling comes in the “tragic” case of a B.C. man acquitted of manslaughter by a jury in July, after he accidentally stabbed ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!LNG project, mines, hydro dam, power lines among latest major project referrals
By Canadian Press on November 13th, 2025
TERRACE, B.C. — The federal government on Thursday announced the latest batch of major building projects to be considered for fast-tracking under legislation passed in June, focused entirely on critical minerals and energy. The new list includes a hydroelectric project in Nunavut, the Crawford nickel mine in northern Ontario, the Nouveau Monde graphite mine in ... Read More »
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