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• Campus chaos; thousands pack streets around Western University for homecoming

  28-09-2024 22:41 via london.ctvnews.ca
  
  On Broughdale Ave, barricades kept students to the sidewalks, and on Huron, officers kept directing the young people away from the middle of the road for emergency vehicles.
  
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• Nanaimo Indian Hospital survivor heals inner child decades after abuse

  28-09-2024 22:24 via bc.ctvnews.ca
  
  For decades, Melven Jones couldn’t talk about what happened to him as a child. He didn’t even remember it.
  
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• Sault Pride display vandalized again

  28-09-2024 22:09 via northernontario.ctvnews.ca
  
  The Pride crosswalk in downtown Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., has been hit by vandalism for the second time in less than three months.
  
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• Montreal rally honours Joyce Echaquan on 4th anniversary of her death

  28-09-2024 21:46 via montreal.ctvnews.ca
  
  A commemorative rally marking the fourth anniversary of Joyce Echaquan’s death will take place in Ville-Marie on Saturday afternoon.
  
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• 'I think he needs to go serve a few more meals:' Ottawa Mission CEO fires back at Ford encampment comments

  28-09-2024 21:01 via ottawa.ctvnews.ca
  
  The CEO of the Ottawa Mission is responding to controversial comments made this week by Premier Doug Ford about those living in homeless encampments that received swift blowback from advocates.
  
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• 'We need to take a closer look': Alberta's premier speaks on Indigenous deaths in police custody

  28-09-2024 21:00 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  Alberta's premier spoke to calls for an outside, independent investigation into the death of Jon Wells during an incident involving Calgary police last week.
  
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• Goat found wandering streets of East Vancouver, apprehended by police

  28-09-2024 20:00 via bc.ctvnews.ca
  
  Vancouver police officers took a goat into custody Friday night.
  
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• Critics see drug debate tainted by politicization in B.C. election campaign

  28-09-2024 18:21 via bc.ctvnews.ca
  
  When NDP Leader David Eby announced this month that the province would open "secure facilities" to provide involuntary care for people with severe drug addiction or mental health problems, it represented a moment of policy unity with the rival B.C. Conservatives ahead of the fall election.
  
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• First Nations, Inuit and Métis leaders say work lays ahead on road to reconciliation

  28-09-2024 18:16 via globalnews.ca
  
  The leaders of the three national Indigenous organizations they look ahead to the fourth National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Monday.
  
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• Alberta municipal leaders squash advocacy for permanent resident voting rights

  28-09-2024 17:58 via globalnews.ca
  
  Those with permanent residency status hold many of the same privileges as Canadian citizens, but they can't vote in elections or obtain a Canadian passport.
  
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• B.C. election: Critics see drug debate tainted by politicization

  28-09-2024 17:46 via globalnews.ca
  
  With more than 15,000 lives lost to toxic drugs since 2016, B.C. has been at the cutting edge of debate, science and policy about how to deal with the crisis.
  
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• Counting the cost of British Columbia’s toxic drug crisis

  28-09-2024 17:37 via globalnews.ca
  
  The toxic drug crisis is one of the most contentious and widely debated issues ahead of British Columbia's provincial election on Oct. 19. 
  
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• Teen boy who went missing in Forest Lawn has been found: Calgary police

  28-09-2024 16:47 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  A 16-year-old boy who went missing in southeast Calgary this past Tuesday has been found, police say.
  
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• Calgary police turn to public for help after teen boy goes missing in Forest Lawn

  28-09-2024 16:47 via calgary.ctvnews.ca
  
  A 16-year-old boy went missing in southeast Calgary this past Tuesday. Police are asking for your help to find him.
  
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• Openly lesbian cabinet minister to make history with parental leave

  28-09-2024 15:36 via globalnews.ca
  
  The wife of Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge is set to give birth in the coming weeks.
  
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• Jasper’s caribou breeding program slowly recovers after wildfire

  28-09-2024 15:12 via globalnews.ca
  
  Despite much of the centre's habitat being scorched in the Jasper wildfire, officials say recovery is proceeding well,
  
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• This 'old barn' is a monument to Canada's hockey roots, but its future is unlear

  28-09-2024 13:11 via ctvnews.ca
  
  Windsor, N.S. has long-claimed to be the 'birthplace of hockey.' Local historians believe the game has roots in the town, located in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley.
  
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• This 'old barn' is a monument to Canada's hockey roots, but its future is unclear

  28-09-2024 13:11 via ctvnews.ca
  
  Windsor, N.S. has long-claimed to be the 'birthplace of hockey.' Local historians believe the game has roots in the town, located in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley.
  
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• Historians call it Canada's oldest standing indoor hockey arena. What's next for the Stannus Street Rink?

  28-09-2024 13:11 via ctvnews.ca
  
  Windsor, N.S. has long-claimed to be the 'birthplace of hockey.' Local historians believe the game has roots in the town, located in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley.
  
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• Superbugs could kill 39 million people by 2050. Here's what Canadian survivors, doctors say should change

  28-09-2024 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  World leaders called superbugs, which are resistant to antibiotics, "an urgent global health threat" this week. Here's what patients and doctors say should change.
  
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• Officer didn't charge murder accused years prior because victim didn't want her to

  28-09-2024 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  An Ottawa police officer who investigated a report that Hamid Ayoub held a knife to his wife's neck — eight years before he murdered her and stabbed their daughter — told his murder trial she didn't charge him because the complainant didn't want her to, despite the fact that police are obligated to lay charges regardless of what victims want.
  
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• Officer didn't charge husband accused of murder after victim's plea over alleged 2013 knife incident, trial hears

  28-09-2024 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  An Ottawa police officer who investigated a report that Hamid Ayoub held a knife to his wife's neck — eight years before he murdered her and stabbed their daughter — told his murder trial she didn't charge him because the complainant didn't want her to, despite the fact that police are obligated to lay charges regardless of what victims want.
  
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• Man says woman intentionally sprayed him with water gun in Ontario neighbourhood where he's faced harassment

  28-09-2024 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  As two people in an assault case face court processes over a water-gun incident in Simcoe, Ont., one says he was intentionally sprayed after years of racially fuelled harassment by a group of neighbours, while the other says it was nothing but an accident.
  
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• Hwy. 401 tunnel or 407 subsidies? Why some say better use of toll route could help Toronto-area traffic woes

  28-09-2024 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  After Premier Doug Ford’s major announcement that the province is considering to build a tunnel under Highway 401, some in Ontario say there are more effective ways to relieve gridlock around Toronto, specifically surrounding the tolled 407 ETR highway. 
  
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• Chinese students in Canada say they've been targeted by Beijing's campaign of fear

  28-09-2024 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Some Chinese students in Canada accuse Beijing of targeting them and their families back in China with online threats and harassment — part of a campaign to crack down on anti-government dissent abroad.
  
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• A lithium battery fire sent toxic gas over Montreal. Are we ready for such emergencies?

  28-09-2024 10:00 via cbc.ca
  
  Residents, chemists and firefighters are raising concerns about prevention and emergency preparedness after 15,000 kilograms of lithium batteries inside a shipping container caught fire in the Port of Montreal on Monday.
  
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• Surging Blue Bombers blitz Elks 55-27, clinch playoff spot

  28-09-2024 07:08 via globalnews.ca
  
  Zach Collaros had a feeling during warm-up that it could be a special game between his Winnipeg Blue Bombers and the Edmonton Elks on Friday. He was correct. Collaros threw a career-high six touchdown passes to ignite the Bombers in a 55-27 victory over the Elks that extended their win streak to seven games and clinched a playoff spot for...
  
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• Grain terminal workers reach tentative deal, ending 4-day strike

  28-09-2024 05:03 via cbc.ca
  
  A tentative agreement has been reached in the 4-day strike that threatened to disrupt grain shipments across the country.
  
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• Grain terminal workers reach tentative deal, ending 3-day strike

  28-09-2024 05:03 via cbc.ca
  
  A tentative agreement has been reached in the 3-day strike that threatened to disrupt grain shipments across the country.
  
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• Family of Langley, B.C., woman missing 7 years says pain is ‘indescribable’

  28-09-2024 03:37 via globalnews.ca
  
  Kristina Ward was last seen crossing a street in Langley, B.C., with a man pushing a bike. That was seven years ago, but her family holds onto hope for the RCMP investigation.
  
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• ‘You can’t park there’: Video shows SUV crashed into elevator lobby at B.C. casino

  28-09-2024 03:34 via globalnews.ca
  
  Police are blaming human error — not alcohol or speed — for an accident in whicha driver steered their SUV into an elevator lobby at the River Rock Casino in Richmond, B.C.
  
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• ‘It’s not Canadian’: Jann Arden ramps up campaign against live horse exports for meat

  28-09-2024 02:49 via globalnews.ca
  
  Opponents of the trade said the main company is an American-based one that only came to Canada after the U.S. banned the practice more than two decades ago.
  
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• Lethbridge Fire and Emergency services hosts reunion with near-drowning survivor

  28-09-2024 02:41 via globalnews.ca
  
  After almost drowning in July, a nine-year-old boy has been reunited with those who saved his life, including his 10-year-old friend.
  
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• Still no decision on maintaining existing contracts for Calgary’s Green Line LRT project

  28-09-2024 02:19 via globalnews.ca
  
  Calgary mayor Jyoti Gondek, Premier Danielle Smith, and Transportation minister Devin Dreeshen held a meeting Friday morning with city and provincial officials to review contracts.
  
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• New documentary sheds light on the journey of an Alberta residential school survivor

  28-09-2024 01:51 via globalnews.ca
  
  A 77-year-old Indigenous woman is sharing an emotional glimpse into her past experiences with residential schools on the big screen in an Alberta-made documentary.
  
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• 'This was her life': Owner of Sask. restaurant destroyed in fire plans to restart

  28-09-2024 01:17 via saskatoon.ctvnews.ca
  
  In the aftermath of a fire that destroyed Snow White Family Restaurant in Biggar Saskatchewan, a GoFundMe has been created to help the owner start over.
  
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• How journals started a journey to reconnect Indigenous families with remains from Camsell Indian hospital

  28-09-2024 01:15 via edmonton.ctvnews.ca
  
  A northern Alberta woman is hoping her family's history can help reunite Indigenous families with loved ones who died at the Charles Camsell Indian hospital in Edmonton.
  
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• 'Closure is something we all deserve': How an Alberta woman is using family heirlooms to help reconnect families

  28-09-2024 01:15 via edmonton.ctvnews.ca
  
  A northern Alberta woman is hoping her family's history can help reunite other families with loved ones laid to rest far from home.
  
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• Sask. students take part in football camp, smudge walk for truth and reconciliation

  28-09-2024 01:10 via globalnews.ca
  
  Students, staff, elders and community members gathered at the First Nations University of Canada for its annual smudge walk.
  
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• How to commemorate Orange Shirt Day in Calgary and Southern Alberta

  28-09-2024 00:44 via globalnews.ca
  
  Calgary, Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Banff and other southern Alberta communities will mark Orange Shirt Day on Monday. Here's how to take part.
  
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• After decades-long search, northern Ontario man finds vintage vehicle in Larder Lake

  28-09-2024 00:37 via northernontario.ctvnews.ca
  
  A tale about a taxicab hauling gold and sinking through the ice on Larder Lake, Ont., in December 1937 has captivated a man from that town for decades.
  
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• Saskatoon community indoor playground risks closure

  28-09-2024 00:25 via globalnews.ca
  
  Some Saskatoon businesses have continued to struggle since coming out of the pandemic, and now one could be closing its doors entirely.
  
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• International student asylum claims surged in 2023, data shows

  28-09-2024 00:25 via globalnews.ca
  
  The surge of international students making asylum claims come as the number of claimants this year is on track to surpass what was seen in 2023.
  
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• Man dies after being pulled from waters of Lake Ontario after workplace incident

  28-09-2024 00:13 via globalnews.ca
  
  Around 1:30 p.m. on Friday, Toronto police said they were called to the Outer Harbour Marine where someone working on a boat had been reported missing.
  
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