Murray Wood: A party 100 years in the making
Murray Wood and a couple of hundred others attended a birthday party on the weekend for a woman who turned 100, and cele...
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Farmers' Almanac says it will cease publication after 208 years, citing financial challenges
A 208-year-old publication that farmers, gardeners and others keen to predict the weather have relied on for guidance will be publishing for the final time. Farmers' Almanac said Thursday that its 202...
Nov 07, 2025
Canada adds surprise 67,000 jobs in October, unemployment rate drops to 6.9%
Statistics Canada says the economy added 67,000 jobs in October, blowing past economists' labour market expectations for a second month in a row. Those job gains were concentrated in part-time work wh...
Nov 07, 2025 Statistics Canada released its latest snapshot of the job market this morning. Workers inspect walls in the Mount Royal tunnel as construction progresses for an electric light rail system in Montreal, Wednesday, May 1, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
Ex-NFL star Antonio Brown arrested on attempted murder charge in Miami shooting
Former NFL star Antonio Brown has been arrested on an attempted murder charge stemming from a shooting after a celebrity boxing event in Miami, police confirmed Thursday. Brown, 37, was taken into cus...
Nov 07, 2025
World Series and rest of Blue Jays' post-season boosted Toronto hotels, businesses
The World Series may have ended in heartbreak for Toronto Blue Jays and their fans, but the team's entire post-season run gave Toronto a big economic boost, with more visitors and more spending at loc...
Nov 06, 2025 Saskatoon have charged three people following an investigation by Saskatoon Police Economic Crime Section. (Mia Holowaychuk/650 CKOM)
NDP says it will vote with government on first budget confidence vote
NDP interim leader Don Davies says his caucus will keep the minority Liberal government alive in the first of three confidence tests of the federal budget today. Members of Parliament are set to vote ...
Nov 06, 2025 Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne is applauded by members of the Liberal party as he delivers the federal budget speech in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
CFIA says B.C. ostrich cull will proceed after high court decides not to hear appeal
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it will move forward with "complete depopulation" of hundreds of ostriches at a British Columbia farm after the owners lost a bid to have their case against th...
Nov 06, 2025 Karen Espersen, the co-owner of Universal Ostrich Farms, is embraced by supporters and her daughter, Katie Pasitney, at the farm in Edgewood, B.C., following the announcement that the Supreme Court of Canada dismissed the farm’s appeal to stay an order to cull more than 300 of its ostriches on Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Hemens
Cowboys' Marshawn Kneeland found dead of apparent suicide at 24 after evading officers, police say
FRISCO, Texas (AP) - Police in a Dallas suburb say 24-year-old Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland was found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound after evading authorities in ...
Nov 06, 2025
Ottawa's tax credits to reduce emissions aren't working as intended, watchdog says
A new audit by Canada's environment commissioner says the federal government's plan to reduce emissions through tax cuts and investments has not been implemented as intended. Jerry DeMarco says more t...
Nov 06, 2025 Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development Jerry V. DeMarco holds a press conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Mistakenly released UK prisoner turns himself in as search continues for second freed convict
LONDON (AP) - One of two inmates who were mistakenly released early from a London prison surrendered Thursday after waving to reporters and smoking a cigarette on the steps of the Victorian-era lockup...
Nov 06, 2025
B.C. regulator fines Amazon $10,000 in ruling that limits what 'delivery' means
A British Columbia regulator has ordered Amazon to pay a $10,000 penalty over a failed delivery, ruling that it's not good enough to leave a package on a doorstep or with another person unless the buy...
Nov 05, 2025 The Amazon logo is seen on the outside of the company's YVR2 fulfillment centre, in Delta, B.C., on Friday, July 11, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
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