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• A new ballot question: How should Canada define its relationship with the U.S.?

  04-04-2025 20:45 via cbc.ca
  
  There is some general agreement that Canada must act urgently in response to what is happening in the United States. But Mark Carney’s recent statements point to what might be a split in the way the Liberal and Conservative leaders view the tumult that is unfolding.
  
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• Edmonton man recreates iconic ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’ tree

  17-12-2025 01:35 via globalnews.ca
  An Edmonton man is hoping to bring some holiday cheer by recreating a Christmas tree from a decades-old cartoon classic.
  
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• 'It's really scary': Thousands of people in Newfoundland remain without power after wind storm

  17-12-2025 01:07 via cbc.ca
  Residents of Fogo Island, Change Islands and other parts of central Newfoundland remain without power Tuesday evening following hurricane-force gusts, with some areas nearing 20 hours without heat and light.
  
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• Quebec Liberals at a crossroads amid mounting pressure on leader to step down

  17-12-2025 00:07 via cbc.ca
  With Quebec Liberal Party Leader Pablo Rodriguez and his party facing an internal crisis for nearly a month, the Journal de Montréal has revealed more allegations of financial schemes during his leadership race. The Liberal caucus says it is behind Rodriguez but if that changes, any dissent could create a domino effect.
  
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• Canada's appeal dismissed in battle over fixing mould in Oneida grandmother’s home

  16-12-2025 23:41 via cbc.ca
  The Canadian government has lost in court a second time to a First Nations grandmother fighting to fix extensive mould at her home on Oneida Nation of the Thames, near London, Ont. The decision is the first time the Federal Court of Appeal has considered the legal issues surrounding Jordan's Principle.
  
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• B.C. medical spa owner released on bail pending appeal of his 11-year sexual assault sentence

  16-12-2025 23:30 via nationalpost.com
  The B.C. Court of Appeal has granted interim release to a medical aesthetics spa owner convicted of seven counts of sexual assault, pending the hearing of his appeal. Justice Susan Griffin heard the bail application from the convicted man requesting that he be released under 24-hour house arrest with electronic monitoring. In her Nov. 28 decision, she noted that Farshad Khojsteh Kashani complied with bail conditions prior to trial, as well as the Crown’s
  
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• Why officials tested ski wax for 'forever chemicals' at Olympic cross-country trials in B.C.

  16-12-2025 23:28 via cbc.ca
  Wax is crucial for athletes' ability to grip and slide on snow, but one previously popular ingredient was banned from all elite competition in recent years.
  
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• 40 people temporarily displaced after fire at former seniors home in western P.E.I.

  16-12-2025 23:07 via cbc.ca
  Firefighters received a call about an alarm inside the building Tuesday morning. Crews discovered that the fire broke out in an attic in the centre section of the building.
  
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• An Albertan's fridge got delivered to wrong address. Then police say he grabbed his gun

  16-12-2025 23:04 via cbc.ca
  An appliance driver who couldn't change a delivery address got punched. A Sundre man has been charged with 14 offences, including assault and extortion with a firearm.
  
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• Ontario hospitals warn of massive spike in ICU admissions for influenza

  16-12-2025 22:22 via globalnews.ca
  The Ontario Hospital Association issued a statement Tuesday, saying there was an alarming increase in cases, which have now hit a three-year high.
  
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• Canadian Jewish group calls for action after threat report warns of possible attacks

  16-12-2025 21:41 via globalnews.ca
  Experts said the Bondi Beach attack in Sydney showed the persistence of the ISIS threat.
  
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• N.B., Ottawa agree to streamline environmental assessments for major projects

  16-12-2025 21:37 via cbc.ca
  The federal and New Brunswick provincial governments have signed an agreement to co-ordinate their environmental impact assessments so there is less duplication.
  
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• 19-year-old pleads guilty to impaired driving in Toronto crash that killed 3 children

  16-12-2025 21:30 via cbc.ca
  The young man accused of being impaired and behind the wheel at the time he slammed into a Toronto family’s van, killing three children, has pleaded guilty in the case. 
  
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• Family wants to see action following inquest into Winnipeg overdose death

  16-12-2025 21:24 via globalnews.ca
  In the months leading up to his death, Lee Earnshaw tried to access treatment on five different occasions but was turned away.
  
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• 'Buy Canadian' policy comes into effect for federal projects worth over $25M

  16-12-2025 21:05 via cbc.ca
  The federal government's "Buy Canadian" policy takes effect Tuesday and Ottawa says it will fundamentally change the way it purchases goods and services.
  
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• Carney’s Liberals hold narrow lead over Conservatives as 2025 ends: poll

  16-12-2025 21:00 via globalnews.ca
  Approval of the Liberal government under Prime Minister Mark Carney is 15 points ahead of the party overall, according to the new Ipsos poll conducted for Global News.
  
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• Skate Canada to stop hosting events in Alberta due to sports gender law

  16-12-2025 20:58 via globalnews.ca
  Skate Canada says it is unable to host events in Alberta while maintaining its standards for safety and inclusivity.
  
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• Canadian men's ski cross athlete becomes most decorated winner in World Cup history

  16-12-2025 20:58 via cbc.ca
  Reese Howden now stands alone as the winningest men's ski cross racer in World Cup history. The Canadian won gold at an event in Arosa, Switzerland, on Tuesday for his 19th career victory on the World Cup circuit. That broke a tie for the most victories by a male athlete in World Cup history, a record Howden had shared with Jean-Frédéric Chapuis of France
  
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• Boyle Street Community Services’ King Thunderbird Centre officially opens

  16-12-2025 20:35 via globalnews.ca
  The facility features cultural spaces that focus on healing and cultural safety and has a community health space, which will provide numerous services for vulnerable Edmontonians.
  
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• Halifax Water’s proposed increase amounts to ‘rate shock,’ regulatory board asks for adjustments

  16-12-2025 20:33 via globalnews.ca
  Halifax Water customers will have a rate hike next year but exactly how much is yet to be seen. The utility had asked for a 35.6 per cent increase over three months.
  
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• Mother of 2 killed by falling tree in Chilliwack, B.C., park amid gale-force winds

  16-12-2025 20:18 via cbc.ca
  Police say there is no indication the incident was anything other than a tragic and unforeseen event that occurred during severe and unpredictable weather.
  
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• Chilliwack, B.C., mother killed by falling tree in park amid gale-force winds

  16-12-2025 20:18 via cbc.ca
  Police say there is no indication the incident was anything other than a tragic and unforeseen event that occurred during severe and unpredictable weather.
  
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• Dramatic dashcam footage shows Jewish couple's attempt to stop Bondi Beach attacker

  16-12-2025 20:07 via nationalpost.com
  A Jewish couple in their 60s tried to stop one of the alleged Bondi Beach attackers by grabbing his gun, dramatic dashcam footage shows. Boris Gurman, 69, and his wife Sofia, 61, Bondi residents, were set to celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary in January, but on Sunday they were killed after they tried to stop one of the suspected gunmen, reports the New York Times. The Gurmans were on a road near Bondi Beach, when one of the suspects emerged from a car that had an Islamic State flag over t
  
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• Saskatchewan town told not to use water, police investigate tampered reservoir hatch

  16-12-2025 19:55 via globalnews.ca
  The town of Outlook, Sask., is under a 'do not use' water advisory after a hatch to one of its water reservoirs was tampered with.
  
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• Bills pushed through Commons at last minute won't be studied by Senate until February

  16-12-2025 19:33 via cbc.ca
  Despite a deal to push government bills through their final stages before the House of Commons rose last Thursday, two pieces of priority budget and border legislation, C-4 and C-12, can't become law until at least February.
  
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• Boy endured years of ‘torture’ while in care of Burlington, Ont., couple, Crown tells murder trial

  16-12-2025 19:31 via cbc.ca
  The 12-year-old boy Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber were trying to adopt was “dangerously” thin for over a year leading up to his 2022 death, Superior Court in Milton, Ont., heard.
  
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• Ottawa to announce stricter methane regulations

  16-12-2025 19:22 via nationalpost.com
  OTTAWA — The federal government will implement stricter methane regulations on both the oil and gas and landfill sectors in an initial batch of more severe environmental policies to be implemented by the Carney government.
    The stricter regulations will be phased in beginning in 2028 and will provide onshore oil and gas producers and transformers with two options to reduce methane emissions, according to a draft press release provided to National Post. The first will be to prohibit t
  
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• Ottawa announces stricter methane regulations

  16-12-2025 19:22 via nationalpost.com
  OTTAWA — The federal government is implementing stricter methane regulations on both the oil and gas and landfill sectors in an initial batch of more severe environmental policies to be implemented by the Carney government.
    “This is a really exciting day for Canada,” said federal Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin at a policy announcement near Vancouver on Tuesday. The stricter regulations will be phased in beginning in 2028 and will provide onshore oil and gas producer
  
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• Canada lays sanctions against 4 more senior Iranian officials

  16-12-2025 18:13 via globalnews.ca
  The latest round of sanctions has been imposed under the Special Economic Measures (Iran) Regulations, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said.
  
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• Manitoba museum repatriates sacred headdress to Long Plain First Nation

  16-12-2025 18:01 via globalnews.ca
  A sacred headdress that belonged to generations of leaders of a First Nation in southern Manitoba is being returned.
  
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