Canada

Canada · 19 d ago

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Lockeport lobster buyer denies charges of buying illegal catch

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Independent Fisheries Ltd. of Lockeport, Nova Scotia, charged with buying, selling or processing lobster caught without a valid licence, denies the allegations.

Canada · 19 d ago

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CAQ names Mathieu Lévesque interim leader after its election wipeout

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Mathieu Lévesque, the former MNA for Chapleau in the Outaouais, replaces Christine Fréchette at the head of the Coalition avenir Québec. Fréchette announced her resignation after the party's results in the provincial election.

Canada · 19 d ago

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Cape Breton data centre: protesters rally on the Halifax waterfront

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Protesters gathered on the Halifax waterfront on Saturday with a message for Premier Tim Houston: the planned data centre at Point Tupper would harm the environment and the community. Organizers say the project seemed "randomly announced."

Canada · 20 d ago

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McGill law students raise concerns after a man convicted of murder joins classes

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Jeffrey George Ewert, in his 60s, is serving a life sentence for a second-degree murder and an attempted murder in British Columbia in 1984. He was granted day parole in 2025 and has attended McGill since August.

Canada · 20 d ago

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Odanak families fear losing Indian status as Bill S-2 stalls in Ottawa

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Under the Indian Act's second-generation cut-off, a person with status cannot pass it on to their children unless the other parent also has status. Senators amended Bill S-2 in late 2025 to let one parent's status be enough.

Canada · 20 d ago

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Man shot dead outside an Edmonton trades college

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Police were called to the Alberta Pipe Trades College in northwest Edmonton at about 8:30 a.m. Friday. Officers found a man with life-threatening injuries, who was pronounced dead at the scene.

Canada · 20 d ago

Three passengers die in a fiery chain-reaction crash involving two Calgary buses

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The crash happened just after 1 p.m. MT on Thursday on Saddletowne Circle N.E., in the city's northeast. Three passengers died and 16 people were injured.

Canada · 20 d ago

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Supreme Court allows past sex work as evidence in some trafficking trials

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The Supreme Court of Canada upheld new trials for two people accused of human trafficking and sex-work offences. It ruled they should have been allowed to question the complainant about the commercial side of her past sex work.