Dave Leaderhouse  Special to the Herald  A little slice of home cooking never hurt anyone.  After being on the road for more than a month the Prince Albert  Northern Bears finally played a home game on Wednesday and the comfort of playing in familiar surroundings showed as they ended a five-game losing streak with a […]

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The City of Melfort captured major national recognition at the 32nd annual Communities in Bloom National and International Awards ceremony in Montréal, Quebec, on Oct. 17. “Our team is very proud of our accomplishments. In our category we received Five Blooms Bronze,” said Myra Busby, CiB Melfort committee Chair in an email the Herald. “One […]

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NDP leader Avi Lewis has renewed his call for the federal government to nationalize Stelco in the face of the company laying off 500 unionized workers from its Hamilton plant.

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A new audit reveals Canada's strategic ammunition stockpile cannot support war readiness or NATO commitments. The report blames Public Services and Procurement Canada for slow restocking, alongside National Defence for failing to manage regular inventory. Despite a $9.2-billion funding pledge, fixing these critical capability gaps will take several years.

Looking over the Ontario government’s Fall Economic Statement, awash as it is in angry red numbers, ballooning deficit forecasts and slowed growth precipitated by Donald Trump’s tariffs, it’s hard to avoid one particular conclusion. Doug Ford thought this was a good time to buy a private jet? The gravy plane has, of course, since been […]

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EDMONTON — Alberta’s historic referendum on separation saw voters trek to the polls in the highest numbers in decades. That’s according to official results from Elections Alberta, which peg voter turnout on the separation question at 70.4 per cent. The turnout is the highest for a provincewide vote since at least 1975, but it fell […]

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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday his government will invest up to $1.6 billion in Canadian AI company Cohere. He made the announcement in Montreal as he welcomed European Union leaders to a summit aimed at forging closer ties. “We are not waiting for the future of AI to be decided somewhere else […]

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False and misleading claims about the voting process are being spread online as voters cast their ballots in the 2026 midterms, with Election Day less than a week away. The posts often focus on alleged election rigging or voter fraud. However, closer scrutiny of the claim typically reveals a logical explanation. Here’s a closer look […]

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Prime Minister Mark Carney says it would be a mistake for Cleveland-Cliffs Inc. to fail to honour the commitments it made when it bought Stelco. At a news conference in Montreal, he declined to comment on the possibility of forcing the U.S. steelmaker to sell Stelco, saying a legal process is underway. Carney’s comments Thursday […]

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OTTAWA — Auditor General Karen Hogan’s office tabled nine reports Thursday in the House of Commons. They include a report tracking government agencies’ progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions and pursuing a ban on exports of thermal coal. The new reports also evaluated efforts to reduce health and environmental risks from pesticides, manage the Canadian […]

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The B.C. NDP has announced Jennifer Whiteside as its new interim leader.

A Canadian traveller who received a text from Bell Canada welcoming him to “Palestine” while he was in Israel says he is shocked and disappointed. The Ottawa resident — who only wanted to be identified by his first name, Charles, out of concerns for his safety amid rising antisemitism — told National Post he decided […]

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Employers are taking advantage of the immigration system to avoid investing in training for their workers.

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VANCOUVER — Former British Columbia opposition leader Kevin Falcon has stepped down as head of the deregistered BC United party, two years after it folded its 2024 election campaign to support the provincial Conservatives. Falcon says he is leaving his post after the “exciting” victory by the B.C. Conservatives in last weekend’s provincial election. He […]

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Regular question period viewers got a little more than the usual "yada, yada, yada" on Thursday as Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and Government House leader Steven MacKinnon traded Seinfeld-related jabs.

This is a joint submission on behalf of CCPA-NS and the MacKillop Centre for Social Justice.

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