WAINWRIGHT — Four Armed Forces members were killed when a fast-moving fire overwhelmed soldiers during a training exercise at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, southeast of Edmonton, on Saturday. Dozens of others were injured, with 27 remaining in hospital as of Thursday. Here’s a look at the four who died: Pte. Shaun Farrell Farrell, a 23-year-old […]

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The first Jewish-Israeli Luai Ahmed met offered to make him Yemeni food. But Ahmed, raised in Yemen to regard Jews as enemies, suspected a trap. “Behind my back, he’s going to go tell everybody in the university and the student house that there’s a Muslim terrorist in the student house,” he recalled thinking. Instead, the […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for New Hampshire to fully ban the use of student IDs for voting during the midterm elections. The justices granted a Republican-backed emergency appeal and blocked the use of student IDs as a backup method of identification. The Supreme Court cited a longstanding legal principle […]

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NEW YORK (AP) — The reports erupt on social media every election year: Voters say they tapped a candidate’s name on a touchscreen voting machine, only for the wrong person to light up as their selection. With some trial and error, and occasionally help from poll workers, the voters are generally able to cast their […]

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The British Columbia election campaign is in its closing stages, with advance voting wrapping up ahead of final voting day on Saturday. Here are some of the latest developments on the campaign trail. ADVANCE VOTING DROPS SHARPLY Six days of advance voting have ended, with Elections BC data showing numbers are down more than 11 […]

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QUÉBEC — Quebec Conservative Leader Éric Duhaime says Quebecers should expect the newly elected members of his caucus to make some mistakes. Duhaime made the comments as members of his team were sworn in at Quebec’s national assembly. His party had no seats before the Oct. 5 election, but now have the second-largest opposition caucus […]

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Every major Ontario teachers' union has a strike vote scheduled for this November.

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The Liquor Control Board of Ontario has named 43-year-old Aaron Campbell, who is both a former prime ministerial aide and a Toronto International Film Festival organizer, as its youngest-ever president and CEO. “He’s young. He’s creative. He’s innovative. And I think very widely respected through his whole organization, and certainly within the domestic industry,” said […]

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MONTREAL — Lawyers told Quebec Superior Court on Thursday that it should suspend a recently-adopted bylaw banning insults against employees of the City of Montreal, including police officers. Those seeking an injunction argued that the bylaw infringes on Charter rights, while representatives of the city countered that the rule protects public workers and all Montrealers. […]

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OTTAWA — Ottawa has given the U.S. owner of Stelco Inc. a 15-day deadline to address alleged violations of commitments made when it purchased the Ontario steelmaker or face potential legal action that could include a forced sale of its Canadian operations. In an 11-page letter Thursday, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly accused Cleveland-Cliffs of failing […]

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Canadians are spending more money on Halloween than ever. But who is benefiting from that consumption?

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A Bangladeshi woman who was trafficked and exploited by two men in Saskatchewan — and repeatedly raped by one of them — says she now lives in fear and struggles to trust anyone.

Secessionists are still welcome in the bosom of the UCP – indeed, Alberta’s premier desperately wants them there – they just need keep their lips zipped for a while.

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A Manitoba judge has dismissed a class-action lawsuit seeking damages for grain farmers following the federal wind-down of the Canadian Wheat Board monopoly, marking what one expert calls the "last chapter" of the wheat board saga.

After emotional testimony from members of the Innu First Nation of Essipit in Quebec who’ve seen their lives upended, federal bureaucrats defended their decision to remove status from more than 700 Innu in the community.

The Ministry of Community Safety says a wolf attacked a person in a remote northern area of the province on Oct. 17.

Despite millions of dollars in broadband investments, some rural and northern Saskatchewan communities continue to face challenges accessing reliable high-speed Internet. Saskatchewan Urban Municipalities Association (SUMA) CEO and Saskatchewan BroadbandAction Committee (SBAC) co-chair Jean-Marc Nadeau estimates that 10 to 15 percent of the province’s population still lacks access to broadband meeting the Canadian Radio-television and […]

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