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Politics

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  MPs debating second Conservative motion of non-confidence in PM Trudeau

  Members of Parliament are debating the second Conservative motion of non-confidence in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government of the week.

• Trudeau, French president Macron meet in Ottawa as trade deal challenges continue

  French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have signed a statement aimed at collaborating more on issues ranging from Ukraine to foreign interference.

• Canada's new limits on temporary foreign workers are now in effect. Here's what changed

  New changes to Canada's temporary foreign worker program are now in effect. Here's what to know.

Health

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  Masking reintroduced in N.S. hospitals as respiratory illnesses increase

  A partial masking mandate has returned to Nova Scotia hospitals and provincially run healthcare facilities for visitors and healthcare workers.

• 'Not much has changed': Indigenous physicians reflect on health care in Canada

  Despite making up more than 4.5 per cent of Canada’s population, less than one per cent of the country's physicians identify as Indigenous, according to the Canadian Medical Association.

• Eye drops recalled in Canada over infection risk

  A Canadian pharmaceutical company is warning consumers not to use some of its eye drops because of potential microbial growth that may result in eye infections.

Sci-Tech

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  'Not impossible': Facebook whistleblower Haugen talks protecting kids on social media

  Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen feels 'extremely hopeful' about society's ability to push social media platforms into being safer but for change to come, she says these companies need to be motivated in a new way.

• Mira Murati, OpenAI's technology chief, becomes the latest exec to leave the company

  OpenAI Chief Technology Officer Mira Murati — who has been instrumental in the development of ChatGPT and the artificial intelligence image generator Dall-E — said Wednesday she is leaving the company.

• A Canadian school photography company says it was hit by a ransomware attack that held about 3,500 photos of students in several Saskatchewan school divisions hostage, among others across the country.

Entertainment

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  Canadian singer K’naan has been charged with sexual assault after being arrested by police in Quebec City.

• Naomi Campbell barred from being charity trustee in England and Wales

  British supermodel Naomi Campbell has been barred from being a charity trustee in England and Wales for five years after the poverty charity she founded nearly two decades ago was deemed Thursday to have been 'poorly governed' with 'inadequate financial management.'

• Hoda Kotb is leaving NBC's 'Today' show early next year

  Hoda Kotb, a fixture at NBC for more than two decades, says she will leave her morning perch on the 'Today' show early next year, telling staffers 'it's time.'

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  Vancouver police blocked traffic and the SkyTrain's Millennium Line suspended service to VCC-Clark Station due to an "unstable crane" in the area Thursday.

• Scammers are increasingly using emails to extort money from victims by threatening to reveal compromising photos, videos and personal information to their friends and family members, according to a new warning from Mounties in Metro Vancouver.

• British Columbia NDP leader David Eby was upstaged by a wasp that flew down his shirt and stung him during a news conference.

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  A new, temporary, stadium-sized seasonal concert venue is coming to Toronto's north end, with the capacity to host 50,000 people at one time. Rogers Stadium will open in June 2025 at the site of the former Downsview Airport Lands, Live Nation announced Thursday.

• Standardized testing results released today show that fewer Ontario students in Grades 3 and 6 met the provincial standard in reading and writing than the previous year.

• An Air Canada flight headed to Toronto from Frankfurt diverted to Edinburgh due to an emergency Thursday, the airline says.

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  A psychiatric report has found a man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting six women east of Calgary is fit to stand trial but his lawyer wants the court to order another hearing before the long-delayed matter resumes.

• A number of families whose children attended Little Scholars childcare centers in Calgary are frustrated they haven’t received a refund after the programs were unexpectedly shut down due to safety concerns in August.

• The two men arrested after a deadly roadside shooting near Calgary last month will be tried together.

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  Police in Gatineau, Que. are investigating the third homicide of the year in the city. A 35-year-old man has been identified as the victim following an apparent assault.

• Former Ottawa resident Judy Brown is among many in Tallahassee, Florida bracing for Hurricane Helene as it barrels towards the state.

• A major redevelopment project on Parliament Hill that includes eventually building a tunnel in the area of Wellington and Sparks streets is scheduled to start this October, according to the City of Ottawa.

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  BREAKING

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  Canadian singer K’naan has been charged with sexual assault after being arrested by police in Quebec City.

• The Montreal fire department spent hours Monday battling a battery fire inside a container at the Port of Montreal.

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  Quebec provincial police have made an arrest in the case of a missing woman from southern Quebec.

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  A pizza chain in Edmonton claims to have the world's largest deliverable pizza.

• Bradley Pierson, founder of Trouvay, helps Canadian police solve cold cases by matching crime scene DNA samples with volunteers’ DNA in databases. He sat down on CTV Morning Live to explain how genetic genealogy works, from finding birth parents to solving crimes.

• The two men arrested after a deadly roadside shooting near Calgary last month will be tried together.

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  A third person has been arrested and charged in connection with the homicide of Halifax teen Devon Sinclair Marsman, who disappeared more than two years ago.

• The mayor of a Nova Scotia town says recent disruptions to the ferry service that links Nova Scotia with eastern Prince Edward Island are posing a real challenge for the town's tourism industry.

• New Brunswick's Progressive Conservatives announced a financial literacy program Thursday, while Liberal Leader Susan Holt vowed to "transform mental health care," and Green Leader David Coon unveiled an affordable housing plan.

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  An NDP MP has introduced a bill that would criminalize residential school denialism, saying it would help stop harm caused toward survivors, their families and communities.

• The Manitoba NDP government says it is more than halfway toward its goal of hiring 1,000 health-care workers since taking office nearly a year ago.

• The Town of Winnipeg Beach is without a leader after its mayor resigned Wednesday evening.

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  The driver of a semi was injured and 22 cattle died following a rollover on Highway 39 near Midale, Sask. on Sept. 21.

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  As Saskatchewan awaits the election call, how are voters feeling about the leaders of Saskatchewan’s two major parties? �鶹��ý sought to find out, in partnership with Insightrix Research.

• After a lengthy meeting Wednesday night, Regina city council has landed on a location for a permanent emergency shelter.

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  Advocates are demanding an apology after a staff report regarding the destruction of corn crops in Wilmot Township was found to be lacking in detail.

• Guelph police say an elderly woman has died after she was struck by a vehicle Thursday afternoon on Eramosa Road.

• A man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter after the 2022 death of a Cambridge resident.

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  A lawyer defending a 14-year-old accused of setting a classmate on fire says 'voices told her to do things' prior to a fiery attack which severely injured a classmate and a teacher at Evan Hardy Collegiate earlier this month.

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  As Saskatchewan awaits the election call, how are voters feeling about the leaders of Saskatchewan’s two major parties? �鶹��ý sought to find out, in partnership with Insightrix Research.

• In a human trafficking trial Tuesday, a Bangladeshi woman says she was sexually assaulted nearly two years ago during her time working at a small-town Saskatchewan restaurant.

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  A northern Ontario man was in the bush hunting for partridge with his fiancé when he came across a big bull moose entangled in some hydro lines in his antlers.

• A pedestrian is dead following a collision with a commercial motor vehicle on Highway 17 west of Thunder Bay on Thursday morning.

• Canadian musician Jacob Hoggard's defence lawyer continued her cross-examination of the complainant in his sexual assault trial in a northeastern Ontario court today, where he has pleaded not guilty.

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  Jonathan Halfyard lived with his mother Carolyn Carter, 69, in west London. But things took a deadly turn on April 20 of last year when she called police to have her youngest child removed from the house.

• Some London renters say a new policy by their landlord to charge visitors for parking amounts to a corporate cash grab.

• Officials in Grand Bend are trying to avoid car rally chaos, similar to what was seen in London on Saturday evening.

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  Residents living near Sunnidale Park in Barrie are calling for immediate action to address a growing coyote problem in their neighbourhood.

• Provincial police say a second complainant has come forward with new allegations against a former aquatic supervisor in Orillia in a child luring and sexual exploitation case.

• Two people were hospitalized following a collision in Angus Thursday morning.

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  As Windsor’s ward meetings roll on, residents on the east end say they’re tired of hearing about crime concerns downtown, pointing out they have problems too.

• As respiratory illness season nears, local pharmacists are reminding people in Windsor-Essex and Chatham-Kent to stay safe and prevent unnecessary visits to the hospital by staying up to date on vaccinations.

• The Windsor Police Service (WPS) has arrested a “wanted fugitive”, wanted on multiple warrants in Ontario.

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  British Columbia NDP leader David Eby was upstaged by a wasp that flew down his shirt and stung him during a news conference.

• Scammers are increasingly using emails to extort money from victims by threatening to reveal compromising photos, videos and personal information to their friends and family members, according to a new warning from Mounties in Metro Vancouver.

• No damage was reported after an earthquake shook parts of Vancouver Island and British Columbia's Lower Mainland on Thursday morning.

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  A pair of runaway pigs are in the custody of an animal sanctuary in the Okanagan after evading police and volunteers for hours earlier this week.

• The Red Bridge, a historic landmark in Kamloops, B.C., was completely destroyed by fire early Thursday morning.

• Animal protection officers in British Columbia have rescued three pit bulls – including one that gave birth to 10 puppies – from a rat-infested home in Kelowna.

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  A Cardston, Alta., woman is $1 million richer after a Lotto Max draw in early August.

• Alberta's Chief Mountain border crossing will soon close for the season.

• It's been a decade since the signing of the Buffalo Treaty helped promote buffalo conservation among Indigenous communities in southern Alberta.

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  A northern Ontario man was in the bush hunting for partridge with his fiancé when he came across a big bull moose entangled in some hydro lines in his antlers.

• A pedestrian is dead following a collision with a commercial motor vehicle on Highway 17 west of Thunder Bay on Thursday morning.

• Every other day, Derek Moonias drives 15 minutes to the airport in Neskantaga First Nation and fills his pickup truck with cases of bottled water flown in on the dime of the federal government.

N.L.

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  Small English soccer team has huge year, thanks in part to Newfoundland and Labrador

  A soccer game in England on Tuesday night drove a spike in online traffic across the Atlantic to a website launched by the Newfoundland and Labrador government.

• Luck of the draw: N.L. ads to be featured in match against football giants Chelsea

  Newfoundland and Labrador sponsored a minor football team in England, now they’re about to play one of the biggest clubs in European soccer.

• Newfoundland and Labrador monitoring rise in whooping cough cases: medical officer

  Newfoundland and Labrador's chief medical officer is monitoring the rise of whooping cough infections across the province as cases of the highly contagious disease continue to grow across Canada.