• Amazon cutting 14,000 corporate jobs to spend more on AI
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from CBC | World News
    Amazon will cut about 14,000 corporate jobs as the online retail giant ramps up spending on artificial intelligence while cutting costs elsewhere.
  • Imprisoned Bahrain activist Abdulhadi al-Khawaja starts hunger strike over his detention
    Wednesday, October 29, 2025 from Winnipeg Free Press: World
  • CRA looking at AI, training to help call centre staff provide accurate answers
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from CBC | Canadian News
    A senior official working at the Canada Revenue Agency says the agency is looking to artificial intelligence and better training to help call centre agents provide more accurate answers to taxpayers.
  • China may be rehearsing for an invasion of Taiwan — but on the potential front lines there's little panic
    Wednesday, October 29, 2025 from CBC | World News
    CBC News visited Taiwan’s Kinmen islands, which are just a few kilometres across the bay from the Chinese city of Xiamen. The islands have been on the frontline of hostilities between China and Taiwan for more than seven decades. Many...
  • Zellers is set for another relaunch. Here’s what the new owners have in store
    Wednesday, October 29, 2025 from Winnipeg Free Press: World
  • Why some farmers are turning old grain bins into guest houses
    Wednesday, October 29, 2025 from CBC | Canadian News
    Some Alberta ranchers hope that branching into tourism will help shore up their family farms to last another generation — though the accommodations might seem a little quirky.
  • 86-year-old man with Alzheimer's walks out of Saskatoon care home undetected, dies days later
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from CBC | Canadian News
    An 86-year-old man with Alzheimer’s died after walking out of a Saskatoon care home unnoticed. William Cone was found eight blocks away after falling and breaking his hip. He never recovered.
  • Police asking public to help identify 'person of interest' in Russell Road stabbing
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from Ottawa Citizen » World
    Ottawa police homicide detectives and Ottawa Community Housing security remained on scene Saturday, where 21-year-old Raphael Atende was fatally stabbed in the early morning hours. Police said they were looking to identify a man described as Black and about 19 to 21 years old and six feet one inches in height.
  • Studying the wrong ancient Roman ruler gets Australian high school seniors out of a history exam
    Wednesday, October 29, 2025 from Winnipeg Free Press: World
  • Return to office for Ontario civil servants 'unnecessarily confusing,' unions say
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from CBC | Canadian News
    The return to office last week by thousands of Ontario public servants has been "disrespectful,”  “piecemeal” and filled with “unnecessary confusion,” say the workers' unions, who point out some ministries and agencies still don't have...
  • Lost your earbuds? You may have info for Ottawa police about an unsolved homicide
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from Ottawa Citizen » National
    The Ottawa Police Service issued this photo of a lost earbud and earbud case and said it was hoping to speak with the owner in connection with the stabbing death of Justin James Weir, 55, on Oct. 2, 2025. Police say the owner of the earbuds may have information relevant to a stabbing death on Oct. 2.
  • Ottawa police say woman on crutches has been found safe
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from Ottawa Citizen » National
    A file photo of Ottawa Police Service headquarters. The Ottawa police thanked the public for their assistance in the search for the woman
  • Bank of Canada set to announce key rate decision, publish new forecasts
    Wednesday, October 29, 2025 from Winnipeg Free Press: World
  • Canadians can't use main doors at border library anymore
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from CBC | Canadian News
    The Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles the border between Quebec and Vermont, with the main entrance just steps into Derby Line, Vt. As of Oct. 1, the U.S. government is limiting Canadian access to the entrance — and the...
  • Blue Jays see off Ohtani to level World Series
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from BBC News - US & Canada
    The Toronto Blue Jays tie the best-of-seven World Series at 2-2 after a thumping 6-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers in game four.
  • Confederate statue torn down during anti-racism protests reinstalled in Washington
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from BBC News - US & Canada
    General Albert Pike's statue, toppled during George Floyd protests in 2020, is restored under orders from President Donald Trump.
  • Tesla’s Grok AI chatbot asks 12-year-old boy to send nude pics, says shocked mother
    Wednesday, October 29, 2025 from CBC | Canadian News
    A Toronto woman is sounding the alarm about Grok, Tesla's generative AI chatbot that was recently installed in many Tesla vehicles in Canada. Farah Nasser says Grok asked her 12-year-old son to send it nude photos during an innocent...
  • Ford government wants to limit debate, skip public hearings on bill to scrap speed cameras
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from CBC | Canadian News
    Ontario Premier Doug Ford's government is proposing to limit debate and avoid public input on three pieces of legislation, including one that would end the province's speed camera program.
  • Trade deal or no trade deal, China still holds crucial minerals leverage over U.S.
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from CBC | World News
    China still has substantial leverage over the U.S. in its dominance of the rare earth minerals market, despite the two countries agreeing to a framework trade deal days before a meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese...
  • Prunella Scales, sharp-tongued and long-suffering wife on Fawlty Towers, dead at 93
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from CBC | World News
    Actor Prunella Scales, best known as acid-tongued Sybil Fawlty in the classic British comedy Fawlty Towers, has died, her children said Tuesday. She was 93.
  • Viktor Orban's dilemma - Russian oil or Trump's favour
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from BBC News - US & Canada
    Trump's closest ally in Europe will head to Washington in the midst of a disagreement over Russian oil.
  • What we know about the Alzheimer's drug Health Canada approved
    Wednesday, October 29, 2025 from CBC | Canadian News
    Health Canada has conditionally approved the drug lecanemab to slow early-stage Alzheimer's disease, raising questions about its effectiveness and availability in Canada.
  • Quebec woman released from custody after arrest linked to death of abandoned newborn
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from CBC | Canadian News
    Police on Montreal’s South Shore say a 33-year-old woman has been released from custody on several conditions in connection with the death of a newborn found alone in a bus shelter Monday morning.
  • Calgary recount confirms Jeromy Farkas elected as mayor
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from CBC | Canadian News
    On Tuesday, Elections Calgary released updated numbers, which show that Jeromy Farkas won the election with 91,112 votes to Sharp's 90,496, a difference of 616 votes.
  • Drug to slow early-stage Alzheimer's disease approved by Health Canada
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from CBC | Canadian News
    Lecanemab is the first medication approved in Canada that targets the buildup of amyloid plaque in the brain, which is believed to be an underlying cause of Alzheimer's disease.
  • More than 740,000 students head back to class in Alberta after teacher strike ends
    Wednesday, October 29, 2025 from Winnipeg Free Press: World
  • First Nation and Canada begin legal battle over ‘grossly underfunded’ on-reserve schools
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from CBC | Canadian News
    The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has begun hearing a potentially precedent-setting legal battle between Canada and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation about the alleged systemic underfunding of on-reserve schooling in Ontario.
  • Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from BBC News - US & Canada
    The company says the opportunities provided by AI means it needs to be "organised more leanly."
  • Texas attorney general sues Tylenol makers over autism claims
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from BBC News - US & Canada
    He accuses them of hiding alleged dangers from the drug, following the Trump administration's unproven claim it is linked to autism.
  • More Alberta parents pushing back against vitamin K injection for newborns, some doctors say
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from CBC | Canadian News
    Some Alberta doctors say they're seeing a recent and concerning trend of new parents either questioning or refusing vitamin K injections, which have been given to newborns as standard practice for decades.
  • First Nation files lawsuit demanding Aboriginal title over lands in western Quebec
    Wednesday, October 29, 2025 from Winnipeg Free Press: World
  • Dodgers outlast Blue Jays in World Series epic
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from BBC News - US & Canada
    Freddie Freeman hits a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 18th inning as the Los Angeles Dodgers took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven World Series, beating the Toronto Blue Jays 6-5 in an epic game.
  • Why is traffic so bad on Highway 417 in Ottawa?
    Wednesday, October 29, 2025 from Ottawa Citizen » National
    Andrew Arcello and his daughters Evelyn, 9, left, and Eleanor, 7, on the Jackie Holzman Bridge over Highway 417. In the background is Highway 417 traffic between Rochester and Carling on Friday between 4 p.m. and 5 p.m. Here's everything you need to know about how construction, unreliable transit, and returning to the office have made getting to work worse.
  • Criticism of bail process often comes from 'uninformed opinion,' Winnipeg judge says
    Tuesday, October 28, 2025 from CBC | Canadian News
    A Manitoba judge is raising concerns that recent discussions around bail reform are whittling away at the presumption of innocence in Canada’s justice system — taking a rare step one legal expert said could help improve public...
  • Dodgers and Blue Jays tied 2-2 going into World Series Game 5
    Wednesday, October 29, 2025 from Winnipeg Free Press: World
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