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Canada in “investment crisis” business council says in federal budget submission
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
OTTAWA — The Business Council of Canada says Canada is in an “investment crisis” but warns prosperity can’t be achieved by taking on more debt. In a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, the council’s president and CEO Goldy Hyder said if the federal government intends on financing investment by incurring more debt, then it ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Handling of sex crime allegations at N.S. youth detention centre under scrutiny
By Canadian Press on October 1st, 2025
HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government is denying allegations that staff at a youth detention centre were repeatedly told a swim instructor was sexually abusing incarcerated residents before he left his job of 29 years in 2017. The assertion is part of a notice of defence submitted in July 2020 by the province in response ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!All three beached sperm whales in P.E.I. dead: conservation group
By Canadian Press on September 30th, 2025
All three sperm whales stranded off the northern coast of Prince Edward Island have died, a marine rescue organization says. Tonya Wimmer, executive director of the Marine Animal Response Society, has said three sperm whales became beached on Saturday night near Hardy’s Channel at East Bideford, P.E.I. She said one died not long after it ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Photo Gallery: Truth and Reconciliation Day
By Canadian Press on September 30th, 2025
Canadians marked the fifth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Tuesday, a day meant to reflect on the legacy of residential schools. The residential school era is the period between 1857 and 1996 when 150,000 Indigenous children were forced to attend church-run, government-funded schools. They were barred from speaking their languages in institutions often ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada Post strike prompts Elections Yukon to make changes ahead of vote
By Canadian Press on September 30th, 2025
Elections Yukon is making changes to how some people can vote in the upcoming territorial election in response to the ongoing Canada Post strike. Chief electoral officer Maxwell Harvey said he expects hundreds of special ballots to be sent out via courier to voters outside the territory, complete with a return courier envelope that will ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hundreds gather in Montreal to reflect on Canada’s legacy of residential schools
By Canadian Press on September 30th, 2025
MONTREAL — Fay-Lisa GagnĂ©, who hails from Muskowekwan First Nation in Saskatchewan, has complicated feelings about the word reconciliation. As a child she was placed into care with a francophone family in Quebec’s Eastern Townships, where she could only speak English. Her mother attended residential school, and her four siblings were lost to the 60s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Nigel Wright, former chief of staff to Stephen Harper, has died at age 62
By Canadian Press on September 30th, 2025
OTTAWA — Nigel Wright, a longtime Canadian businessman and former top aide to prime minister Stephen Harper, has died. Onex, the private equity firm where Wright worked for nearly three decades, announced his death in a statement on Tuesday. The firm did not provide a cause of death. Wright was 62. The firm’s president and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Anand taking two different approaches to building ‘bridges’ with China, India
By Canadian Press on September 30th, 2025
OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is off to India and China in the coming weeks, where she plans to take two distinct approaches to mending frayed ties with the world’s two most populous countries. “I do not think it is wise to group countries in one region of the world together, and certainly ... Read More »
1 responseTrump says a U.S. government shutdown is ‘likely’ — here’s what could happen
By Canadian Press on September 30th, 2025
WASHINGTON — U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday that a federal government shutdown is “likely,” with Congress deadlocked ahead of a midnight deadline to pass legislation to keep it running. “Nothing is inevitable, but I would say it’s probably likely,” Trump told reporters. Democrats and Republicans blame each other for causing the shutdown, which would ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carney marks ‘devastating legacy’ of residential schools in Ottawa event
By Canadian Press on September 30th, 2025
OTTAWA — The federal government will “match remembrance with responsibility,” Prime Minister Mark Carney promised on Tuesday, as he addressed the crowd assembled on Parliament Hill to mark the fifth annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. Sept. 30, known as Orange Shirt Day or the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, is meant to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Elections Yukon makes changes ahead of upcoming vote due to Canada Post strike
By Canadian Press on September 30th, 2025
WHITEHORSE — Elections Yukon says it is making changes to how some people can vote in the upcoming territorial election in response to the Canada Post strike. It says Canada Post was the main carrier in the 2021 election for sending and returning special ballots used by 17 per cent of voters, including those who ... Read More »
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