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Visitors to national parks can now take 'coasties' to track coastal erosion
Visitors to some Parks Canada locations can now be a part of the organization's research into coastal erosion by taking a so-called coastie. The agency recently launched a citizen science program call...
Oct 26, 2021

Boissonnault, Fraser, Ien among nine new faces in Trudeau's cabinet
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has chosen nine new ministers for his 39-member cabinet. Here's a look at the new faces joining the lineup: Randy Boissonnault, minister of tourism and associate...
Oct 26, 2021

Business, labour groups urge new cabinet to get to work on priority issues
OTTAWA - Business and labour groups are urging the new federal cabinet to get to work on priority economic issues like the skilled labour shortage, supply chain issues, fixing employment insurance and...
Oct 26, 2021

Federal Court rejects Manitoba's argument against carbon price backstop
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has lost a two-year-long court battle against the federal government's carbon pricing plan. A Federal Court judge has rejected Manitoba's argument that Ottawa should...
Oct 26, 2021

Alberta voters narrowly reject permanent Daylight Savings, favour equalization removal
It was a narrow margin, but Alberta voters have voted against the idea of permanently staying on Daylight Saving Time.The official results for the referendum questions and Senate Nominee elections wer...
Oct 26, 2021

Nunavut elects 11 new members amid low voter turnout in territorial election
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut residents have elected 11 new members to the territory's legislative assembly, but voter turnout was low. Elections Nunavut says voter turnout was a 49.9 per cent - down fro...
Oct 26, 2021

Storm hosting "Tighty-Whitey Toss" Friday in support of Rotary Dignity Drive
The Grande Prairie Storm have partnered up with the Rotary and Rotaract Clubs of Grande Prairie to host a "Tighty-Whitey Toss" in support of the Rotary Dignity Drive on Friday, October 29.Storm Busine...
Oct 26, 2021

Quebec coroner tired of finger-pointing over deaths at Montreal long-term care home
MONTREAL - A Quebec coroner is reminding an inquest into deaths at a privately owned Montreal long-term care home that the regional health authority and the home's management were both responsible for...
Oct 26, 2021

CDC says guidance still to come on whether U.S. to require land-border COVID-19 test
WASHINGTON - U.S. officials aren't ruling out the possibility that fully vaccinated foreign visitors will need a recent negative COVID-19 test in order to cross the land border with Canada. The latest...
Oct 26, 2021

Two workers trapped after scaffold collapse at Domtar plant in Eastern Townships
WINDSOR, Que. - Two people remain trapped in the debris after a multi-storey scaffold collapsed overnight at a paper mill in Quebec's Eastern Townships. Sylvain Bricault, the manager of the Domtar mil...
Oct 26, 2021