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Politics

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  More Trudeau cabinet ministers not running for re-election, sources say shuffle expected soon

  Federal cabinet ministers Filomena Tassi, Carla Qualtrough and Dan Vandal announced Thursday they will not run for re-election. Senior government sources tell �鶹��ý at least one other, Marie-Claude Bibeau, doesn't plan to run again, setting the stage for Justin Trudeau to shuffle his cabinet in the coming weeks.

• Singh 'doesn't understand' why Poilievre won't get top security clearance

  NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says it's very disturbing that Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre won't get the top-level security clearance needed to view classified documents on foreign interference.

• Mom urges chiefs to vote in favour of landmark $47.8B child welfare reform deal

  The representative plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against Canada are urging First Nations chiefs to accept a landmark $47.8-billion child welfare reform deal.

Health

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  More details expected on proposed deal that would see tobacco giants pay billions

  More details are expected today on a proposed deal that would see the three major companies pay out billions of dollars to provinces and territories as well as smokers and their loved ones.

• If your Apple Watch alerts you to sleep apnea, here's what it means and what to do next

  Already multitool smart devices, Apple Watches added another buzzworthy feature last month: an app to detect sleep apnea.

• Older patients, non-English speakers more likely to be harmed in hospital: report

  Patients who are older, don’t speak English, and don’t have a high school education are more likely to experience harm during a hospital stay in Canada, according to new research.

Sci-Tech

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  Google adds first Indigenous language in Canada to its translation service

  One of the most widely spoken Indigenous languages in this country is now available through Google's translation service, the first time the tech giant has included a First Nations, Metis or Inuit language spoken in Canada on its platform.

• Meta attempts to crack down on sextortion in new campaign

  Meta has launched a new campaign to protect teens and children from social media sextortion scams. It’s designed to help teenagers and their parents easily spot online scammers, who trick young people into sending intimate photos and use financial blackmail, threatening exposure.

• TikTok let through disinformation in political ads despite its own ban, Global Witness finds

  Just weeks before the U.S. presidential election, TikTok approved advertisements that contained election disinformation even though it has a ban on political ads, according to a report published Thursday by the nonprofit Global Witness.

Entertainment

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  One Direction was the internet's first boy band, and Liam Payne a critical part of it

  How One Direction became the internet's first boy band.

• Mitzi Gaynor, star of 'South Pacific,' dies at 93

  Mitzi Gaynor, the effervescent dancer and actor who starred as Nellie Forbush in the 1958 film of 'South Pacific' and appeared in other musicals with Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, has died. She was 93.

• ‘Kindness’ influencers on TikTok give money to strangers. Why is that controversial?

  Every Christmas growing up in Minnesota, Jimmy Darts' parents gave him US$200 in cash: US$100 for himself and US$100 for a stranger. Now, with over 12 million followers on TikTok and several million more on other platforms, philanthropy is his full-time job.

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  A 53-year-old man has been arrested and charged with manslaughter in connection with a fatal stabbing on Vancouver Island more than two years ago.

• Emergency crews were called to the Port Mann Bridge for a multi-vehicle crash that snarled rush hour traffic Friday morning.

• British Columbia's political party leaders have spent the 28-day provincial election campaign wooing voters with promises on critical issues including health care, housing, the cost of living and the environment.

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  Toronto Fire will be investigating the cause of a “stubborn” three-alarm fire that gutted a Beaches home early Friday morning.

• A Toronto senior who paid $27,000 for a shoddy roofing job is relieved that more than 10 roof companies offered to help after seeing her story on �鶹��ý Toronto.

• New condo sales in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area are continuing to drop off, falling 81 per cent in the third quarter of 2024 compared to the same period last year, according to a new report by Urbanation.

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  An Alberta court has found a Langdon man who attacked and fatally injured his mother in 2023 was not criminally responsible in her death.

• Alberta municipalities are getting their first look at new rules around local political parties and how they will be funded.

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  An atmospheric river (a narrow band of moisture in the upper atmosphere) will be directed at the B.C. coastline and dumping significant amounts of rain and snow throughout the province over the next 24 to 36 hours.

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  Ottawa Public Health is urging all residents to protect themselves against the flu and COVID this fall and winter. Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacist Jordan Clark spoke with CTV Morning Live about what you need to know about the COVID shot, flu shot and RSV protection this fall.

• The Ottawa Police Service is looking to speak with a driver who might have information related to a fatal crash involving a cyclist on Old Richmond Road late last month.

• Fewer than 4,500 Ottawa households exceeded the new 3-item garbage limit in the first two weeks of the new household waste rules.

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  Montreal police arrested five suspects following two separate investigations involving crimes targeting a Verdun bar and a downtown restaurant.

• Laval police (SPL) arrested a 14-year-old boy as part of their investigation into threatening calls that led to several preventive school lockdowns in recent days.

• Three people were injured after an attack in a park in Montreal's east end Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve borough.

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  Alberta municipalities are getting their first look at new rules around local political parties and how they will be funded.

• Fire crews from several communities were called to a fire on a rural property on Friday morning.

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  It'll be a classic autumn "transition weekend" in the Edmonton area. Warm air floods in on Saturday and then we're back to average Sunday and near zero FOR AN AFTERNOON HIGH on Monday.

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  With a crowded field of 16 candidates vying to be Halifax's next mayor, candidates have not always found it easy to stand out. But one thing sets Andrew Goodsell apart and makes him uniquely positioned to comment on a central campaign issue: he is living rough in a tent in the city's south end.

• The Fredericton Police Force says three more teenagers have been charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of a man in the city last month.

• An investigation is underway after a fatal car crash in Nova Scotia's Hants County on Thursday.

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  Potential unmarked burials have been detected at a former residential school in northern Ontario.

• A British travel documentarian's YouTube video announcing his move to Winnipeg, Man. has gone viral, with Manitobans praising the transplant's kind words about his new Prairie home.

• A 52-year-old man has been charged after six bison were killed in an illegal hunt on a Manitoba farm.

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  A new unit to the Regina Police Service (RPS) has been introduced that is meant address the unique and complex needs of the downtown area.

• The image of a sleepy Saskatchewan small town with 'not a lot going on' is a well-known anecdote. However, one Saskatchewan company is hoping to change that – and allow communities both on and off the beaten path to share their stories and advertise what they have to offer.

• Two former Saskatchewan Party government members say they are voting for the NDP's Carla Beck in the provincial election on Oct. 28.

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  Trustees with an Ontario school board are responding to criticism over a $45,000 trip to Italy, where they purchased more than $100,000 worth of religious statues.

• Two police officers took the stand Thursday to describe what they found on Erick Buhr's clothing after his grandmother, Viola Erb, was attacked.

• Guelph Police have arrested a man after a woman said she was sexually assaulted on the University of Guelph campus.

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  Saskatoon mayoral candidate Cary Tarasoff says it's time for the city to get its finances back on track after building a reputation of overspending and mismanaging costly projects.

• Police in the Prince Albert area are on the lookout for four suspects following a string of armed auto thefts on Thursday.

• Two former Saskatchewan Party government members say they are voting for the NDP's Carla Beck in the provincial election on Oct. 28.

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  Potential unmarked burials have been detected at a former residential school in northern Ontario.

• A Quebec-based company that supplies hydro turbines and generators has been fined $80,000 after a millwright was critically injured at a job site last year in Iron Bridge, Ont.

• Defective parts prompt recalls of thousands of vehicles in Canada

  An increased risk of fire has prompted the recall of thousands of Honda hybrid vehicles in Canada.

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  Damage is estimated at $250,000 and one person has been arrested after a suspicious fire in Old East Village. Fire broke out Wednesday at 737 Dundas St. — the same building where police are already investigating an $800,000 arson from Sept. 5.

• A robbery investigation by London police has resulted in the arrest of a 14-year-old boy.

• After just six months on the job, the city manager for St. Thomas has announced his resignation. Hired in April, Michael Bradley has now accepted a position in his hometown of Brantford as the Chief Administrative Officer.

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  Provincial police spent two hours on Wednesday targeting commercial trucks travelling through Bolton in violation of the town’s No Truck Route.

• It's been 19 years since April Dobson was shot and killed while sitting on a porch with two friends at a home on Browning Trail in Barrie.

• At 17 years old, Myles Odlozinski is making a difference by creating the Orillia community fridge program.

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  A second suspect is wanted in connection to a commercial break-and-enter investigation.

• Windsor police are warning the public about an increase in break-ins and thefts from vehicles.

• Defective parts prompt recalls of thousands of vehicles in Canada

  An increased risk of fire has prompted the recall of thousands of Honda hybrid vehicles in Canada.

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  A 53-year-old man has been arrested and charged with manslaughter in connection with a fatal stabbing on Vancouver Island more than two years ago.

• British Columbia's political party leaders have spent the 28-day provincial election campaign wooing voters with promises on critical issues including health care, housing, the cost of living and the environment.

• J.T. Miller scored 2:09 into overtime and the Vancouver Canucks got their first win of the season, beating the Florida Panthers 3-2 on Thursday night.

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  Dave Lindsey began growing giant pumpkins to bring a bit of magic to his grandkids' Halloween.

• A U.S. District Court judge in Montana has sentenced a 27-year-old man from Kelowna, B.C., to 18 months in prison for using fake names to buy guns with the aim of selling them in Canada.

• Nearly two years after a man was stabbed to death in downtown Kelowna, RCMP have made an arrest in the case.

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  With Halloween just around the corner, the Lethbridge Bulls staff have been hard at work getting Spitz Stadium ready for a different sort of fall classic.

• Lethbridge post-secondary schools are trying to navigate recent changes to the cap on international students, announced by the federal government in January.

• More than 600 students on the Piikani Nation will soon have a new space to learn after the federal government announced funding Thursday morning.

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  Ontario's top court breathed new life into a Charter challenge of the provincial government's emissions target on Thursday, a decision heralded as a major victory for the group of young people -- including 17-year-old Sophia Mathur from Greater Sudbury -- who brought the case and others looking to hold governments to account on climate change.

• Surveillance cameras that are used to both deter crimes and help investigations will soon be installed throughout Sault Ste. Marie.

• A Quebec-based company that supplies hydro turbines and generators has been fined $80,000 after a millwright was critically injured at a job site last year in Iron Bridge, Ont.

N.L.

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  How gloves belonging to Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe wound up in Newfoundland

  A five-hour drive from St. John's, N.L., and well off the beaten path, Point Leamington seems an unlikely spot for a one-of-a-kind tourist attraction.

• 'Crack houses' across rural Newfoundland? RCMP has no reports supporting MP's claim

  A Conservative MP from Newfoundland and Labrador says some small towns in his rural riding are overrun with crime, but police say they haven't received reports to that effect.

• Self-identifying Indigenous group got $74M in federal cash, Inuit leader wants change

  As millions in federal funding flow into a Labrador group whose claims of Inuit identity have been rejected by Indigenous organizations across Canada, a national Inuit leader worries the Liberal government is putting the rights of Indigenous Peoples at risk.