Canada

Canada · 16 d ago

Santé Québec rewrites its home-care tenders after lowest-bid contracts upset seniors

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After Santé Québec, the province's health agency, required home-care contracts to go to tender, private firms replaced non-profit providers in three regions.

Canada · 16 d ago

Alberta separatists vow to keep going whatever the referendum result

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Elections Alberta says 1,356,873 votes were cast in advance polls and by special ballot from Oct 13 to 17, 43 per cent of the 3,148,343 eligible electors.

Canada · 19 d ago

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More Rewards breach exposes grocery customers' personal information

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More Rewards, the loyalty program of Save-On-Foods and other Jim Pattison-owned grocers in Western Canada, found unusual activity on a server on Tuesday and confirmed on Friday that customer data was accessed.

Canada · 19 d ago

Ontario career college suspends classes after the province pauses OSAP payments

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Trillium College paused classroom and online instruction on Friday at its campuses in St. Catharines, Kingston, Oshawa, Sudbury and Cobourg.

Canada · 19 d ago

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Pete Fry projected to unseat Ken Sim as Vancouver mayor, McCallum back in Surrey

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Pete Fry is projected to become Vancouver's next mayor after British Columbia's municipal elections on Saturday, defeating incumbent Ken Sim; Colleen Hardwick came third and Kareem Allam fourth.

Canada · 19 d ago

New poll puts support for an Alberta separation vote at 23 per cent before Monday

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An Ipsos poll of 801 Albertans, taken Oct 13 to 16, found seven in 10 plan to vote to stay in Canada and 23 per cent to start toward a binding separation vote.

Canada · 19 d ago

Separatists and federalists hold final rallies across Alberta before Monday's vote

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About 1,100 people rallied for independence at the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton on Saturday, Alberta Sheriffs estimated, with 11 buses bringing supporters from across the province.

Canada · 19 d ago

Daniel Allain wins the New Brunswick Progressive Conservative leadership

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Allain won 2,543 votes, or 58.6 per cent, against 1,797 for Don Monahan, the MLA for Arcadia-Butternut Valley-Maple Hills, in a mail-in vote counted Saturday in Fredericton.