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Montreal-area councillor to be chosen by lottery after a tie vote
MONTREAL - This year, one Montreal-area city councillor will be chosen by an effective flip of the coin. In the on-island suburb of Montral-Est, a pair of candidates in the recent municipal election b...
Nov 09, 2025
N.S. chief justices defend courtroom poppy ban after politicians call practice wrong
HALIFAX - The heads of Nova Scotia's supreme and provincial courts are expressing their support for judges who ban court staff from pinning poppies to their robes during proceedings after some Canadia...
Nov 09, 2025
Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week
TORONTO - Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week: Champagne in Calgary Federal Finance Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne will be at the Calgary Chamber of Commerc...
Nov 09, 2025
COP30 primer: Here's what to know about the annual UN climate talks and Canada's role
Canadian climate negotiators are headed to Brazil for the next two weeks as leaders gather for annual United Nations climate talks. The talks come as Prime Minister Mark Carney, whose credentials as a...
Nov 09, 2025
Low municipal election voter turnout not a concern for these Quebec towns
MONTREAL - The historic village of Calixa-Lavalle is named after the man who composed the Canadian national anthem, so perhaps it's no surprise its residents take their civic duty seriously. While nea...
Nov 09, 2025
Freeland tasked with tapping Canadian businesses to help rebuild Ukraine
OTTAWA - Seven weeks ago, Prime Minister Mark Carney assigned former cabinet minister Chrystia Freeland to be Canada's new special envoy for the reconstruction of Ukraine. Canadians haven't heard much...
Nov 09, 2025
Scott Moe receives more than 80 per cent approval at Sask. Party convention
SASKATOON - Premier Scott Moe received healthy support from members at the Saskatchewan Party's convention Saturday despite his dismal performance in the province's two major cities in the last electi...
Nov 08, 2025 Premier Scott Moe said at the Sask. party convention in Saskatoon on Nov. 8, 2025 that earning back support lost during the last election isn’t “an easy task after we are the longest consecutive serving government in the nation.” (Marija Robinson/650 CKOM)
Indigenous Veteran's Day: How veterans faced battles at home and abroad
by Brieanna Charlebois VANCOUVER - John Moses says that when his father Russell Moses returned on leave from the Korean War, his battles weren't over. When the Indigenous residential school survivor c...
Nov 08, 2025 People listen during a ceremony held by the Tsleil-Waututh Nation to mark Indigenous Veterans Day, in North Vancouver, B.C., in 2021. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)
100 Mile House Mayor says mill closure at the end of 2025 underscores need for reform
VICTORIA - The mayor of a community in B.C.'s Cariboo region says U.S. tariffs on the softwood lumber industry "are the icing on the cake" for an industry in need of fundamental reforms as it prepares...
Nov 08, 2025
Manitoba premier talks election preparation at NDP convention
BRANDON - Manitoba New Democrats, riding high in opinion polls and taking in large amounts of money in donations, were urged by Premier Wab Kinew to start preparing for an election still almost two ye...
Nov 08, 2025
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8:30 - Canada's industrial carbon tax is set to rise again, and it's sparking a lot of debate about what that means for ...