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Quarterly profit slide at Target hints at a challenging holiday season for the retailer
NEW YORK (AP) - Target's third-quarter profit tumbled as the retailer struggles to lure shoppers that are being pressed by stubbornly high inflation and grappling with other The Minneapolis company sa...
Nov 19, 2025
Ophthalmologists urge provinces not to allow optometrists to perform minor surgeries
Ophthalmologists are urging provincial governments not to move ahead with plans that would allow optometrists to perform some surgeries and laser eye treatments, which are currently outside their scop...
Nov 18, 2025 Glasses are seen at an eye clinic in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, B.C., on Sunday March 4, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
'Valid' questions for CFIA but few simple answers in wake of B.C. ostrich cull
Infectious disease veterinarian Scott Weese says the hundreds of ostriches shot dead on a rainy night at a British Columbia farm this month "probably weren't infected" with avian influenza at the time...
Nov 18, 2025
Carney defends green pledge to get Budget 2025 passed in narrow vote
Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday defended making a commitment to carbon emission targets to get the government's spending plan over the finish line. Carney told reporters before the weekly cabine...
Nov 18, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney rises during Question Period, on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Report finds one in five immigrants leaves Canada within 25 years
A new report says one in five newcomers to Canada leaves the country within 25 years of their arrival - and most of those who leave exit within their first five years here. The Institute for Canadian ...
Nov 18, 2025 An Air Canada flight takes off from Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal on Friday, Sept. 13, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
Cloudflare outage impacts thousands, disrupts transit systems, ChatGPT, X and more
A widely used Internet infrastructure company said that it has resolved an issue that led to outages impacting users of everything from ChatGPT and the online game, "League of Legends," to the New Jer...
Nov 18, 2025 Lava lamps are seen through a lobby window at the headquarters of Cloudflare in San Francisco, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
Poland says 2 Ukrainians working for Russia are suspected of being involved in railway blast
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Two Ukrainian citizens working for Russia are suspected of blowing up a railway line in Poland over the weekend, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday. Speaking to the Sejm, th...
Nov 18, 2025 Prime Minister Donald Tusk, second right, visits site of the rail line Mika, that was damaged by sabotage, near Deblin, Poland, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. (AP Photo/KPRM)
Liberal budget survives in tight House vote before Carney departs for UAE
Prime Minister Mark Carney's government narrowly passed a crucial budget vote Monday, with four MPs abstaining and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May backing the budget. Members of Parliament voted 170 ...
Nov 18, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney and Minister of Finance and National Revenue Francois-Philippe Champagne applaud following a vote on the federal budget on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Monday, Nov. 17, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Liberal budget clears Commons by two votes preventing winter election
The House of Commons has passed Prime Minister Mark Carney's first budget in a crucial vote that propped up the minority Liberal government and kept Canadians from heading back to the polls this winte...
Nov 17, 2025
Bank of Canada expected to move to sidelines amid inflation 'messiness'
There were signs inflation was easing in October, but a more muddled picture under the hood has most economists expecting the Bank of Canada will shift to the sidelines at its final interest rate deci...
Nov 17, 2025 The Bank of Canada is seen in Ottawa, on Wednesday, April 16, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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