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  Vancouver Fire Rescue Services received its first shipment of new firefighting gear on Wednesday, advancing the department's plans to reduce cancer risk for its members.

• A Real Canadian Superstore in B.C.'s Fraser Valley was evacuated Tuesday night due to a "suspicious" fire in the toilet paper aisle, according to authorities.

• A man who fired at least 19 gunshots at an RCMP detachment in northern British Columbia, narrowly missing officers inside, has won a reduced prison sentence from the province's highest court, which ruled the sentencing judge failed to fully weigh the man's mental illness at the time.

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  He is a familiar face to residents of a neighbourhood just west of Roncesvalles Avenue.

• Brampton is looking to the federal and provincial government to address the growing number of its vulnerable international students being exploited and trafficked.

• 'Canadians can breathe a sigh of relief': Bank of Canada Governor on interest rate cut

  The Bank of Canada made a sizable cut to its key lending rate Wednesday from 4.25 per cent to 3.75 per cent as the global economy continues to expand. The half percentage point cut is the fourth rate cut in a row by the central bank as inflation dropped from 2.7 per cent in June to 1.6 per cent in September.

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  Speed was a possible factor in a Tuesday night rollover involving a semi-truck that left 17 cows dead. In a news release Wednesday, Calgary police said officers were called to the area of Stoney Trail S.E. and Macleod Trail S.E. around 8:10 p.m. for a reported rollover involving a semi-truck carrying 95 cattle.

• A Calgary Jewish organization issued a response Wednesday to anti-Israel graffiti spray painted on a series of road dividers near the Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo.

• The Smith government says it's coming to the defence of Albertans and its regulated professionals who have had their freedom of expression limited and forced into training beyond the scope of their practice.

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  One person has died and others have been injured after a two-vehicle collision involving a tractor trailer and a car on Highway 7 in eastern Ontario, according to police.

• Homeowners with a variable rate mortgage in Ottawa can expect to see some savings thanks to a significant rate cut by the Bank of Canada.

• A Zamboni driver in western Quebec has been arrested on suspicion of impaired driving after a low-speed crash at a hockey rink on Monday.

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  Nigel Berkley and CRARR plan to file complaints with the police ethics commissioner and the human rights commission after Berkley was repeatedly stopped while driving his mother's car over four months.

• Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante will not be seeking re-election.

• Quebec's Court of Appeal has upheld a landmark 2022 decision that found a law permitting random traffic stops by police led to racial profiling.

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  The Alberta Pharmacists' Association says upcoming government cuts to service compensation fees will have a big impact on pharmacists and also patient care.

• An Edmonton tow truck operator has been charged after police say he refused to release a vehicle to its owner.

• The Bank of Canada (BOC) announced a cut to the interest rate Wednesday and experts are expecting that will benefit Edmonton's housing market.

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  A memorial is growing outside a Walmart in Halifax after a 19-year-old employee was found dead inside an oven in the store Saturday night.

• The president and CEO of New Brunswick-based Covered Bridge Potato Chips is taking an 'extended leave of absence' after being charged with domestic violence this past weekend.

• The Nova Scotia government says it plans to reduce the province's harmonized sales tax (HST) rate by one percentage point next year.

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  A search has started at Prairie Green Landfill for the remains of two victims of a serial killer.

• A 59-year-old man has died following a crash involving three vehicles that started after a tire fell off a car on the Trans-Canada Highway Wednesday morning in the RM of Tache.

• Police are asking for the public's help finding a 27-year-old inmate who was mistakenly released from custody in Manitoba.

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  Regina police says officers will provide an update Thursday in its search for the suspect of a homicide that took place in the city during the summer of 2023.

• Saskatchewan RCMP says it doesn't believe that a threat directed at Yorkton Regional High School is credible at this time.

• Zackary Bellegarde, who faced multiple charges relating to the possession and distribution of child pornography, has pled guilty.

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  Detective Robert Hofstetter examined Erb’s home after her death and came to several conclusions based on the blood stains he found there.

• Things could be looking up for Waterloo, Ont.-based company and former tech darling Sandvine, after being removed from the U.S. Department of Commerce Entity List earlier this week.

• A former elementary school in downtown Cambridge has gotten a modern makeover.

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  Canada's discount airline is suspending operations to and from Saskatoon.

• With the war in Ukraine still going on and Saskatchewan now home to hundreds of newcomers fleeing the attacks, there’s been a resurgence of a youth group here in Saskatoon.

• Saskatoon Public Library workers are in a strike position following the rejection of a tentative agreement with the employer.

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  A Sudbury jury has found Felicity Altiman guilty of second-degree murder in the December 2020 stabbing death of a Sudbury man.

• It only took minutes for North Bay pharmacist Brian Chute to be out $1,500 after fraudsters deceptively swapped his bank card with another.

• Greater Sudbury has ended the employment of CAO Ed Archer, Mayor Paul Lefebvre announced suddenly Tuesday evening

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  Emric Thompson was found guilty of deliberately setting one of three church fires in the early morning hours of Sept. 28, 2020.

• A 27-year-old man is miraculously alive after his pickup went over Hawk Cliff near Port Stanley. Fire fighters estimate that from the top to bottom of the embankment is around 270 feet.

• Police said the house is believed to be empty and abandoned and it's not known yet if the driver of the truck is injured.

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  A haunted house in the Town of Innisfil is causing a real scare for some people a week before Halloween.

• Barrie police conducted a search on Wednesday of the last place Autumn Shaganash was seen in hopes of giving her family some answers to her mysterious disappearance.

• A 34-year-old motorcyclist has died following a collision in Barrie’s south end on Tuesday.

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  Windsor Fire and Rescue Services has been working to prepare for heightened HAZMAT risk ahead of relaxed restrictions around the transportation of some hazardous materials across the Ambassador Bridge.

• As hospitals elsewhere in Ontario reintroduce mask mandates due to rising respiratory illnesses, Windsor hospitals are taking a more measured approach.

• In an effort to improve traffic flow at one of Essex County's slowest intersections, LaSalle town councillors have approved installing traffic signals at Matchett Road and Sprucewood Avenue.

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  A man who fired at least 19 gunshots at an RCMP detachment in northern British Columbia, narrowly missing officers inside, has won a reduced prison sentence from the province's highest court, which ruled the sentencing judge failed to fully weigh the man's mental illness at the time.

• An oil salvage operation is underway on the fragile wreckage of a U.S. army transport ship that sank almost 80 years ago off coastal British Columbia in a race to head off an eruption of thousands of litres of oil that a coast guard official says is "near imminent."

• Green Party Leader Sonia Furstenau says the starting place to supporting whichever party comes to power in British Columbia is her party's platform.

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  Dave Lindsey began growing giant pumpkins to bring a bit of magic to his grandkids' Halloween.

• A U.S. District Court judge in Montana has sentenced a 27-year-old man from Kelowna, B.C., to 18 months in prison for using fake names to buy guns with the aim of selling them in Canada.

• Nearly two years after a man was stabbed to death in downtown Kelowna, RCMP have made an arrest in the case.

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  A design plan is now underway to increase the capacity of Lethbridge's Water Treatment Plant.

• Following community feedback, times for WestJet flights between Medicine Hat and Calgary are changing.

• A proposed coal mine — not tourism — is critical in revitalizing southwestern Alberta communities along the edge of the Rockies, a group in favour of a controversial project maintains.

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  The lack of 24-hour public washrooms has been a long-standing issue in the Sault, especially considering the rise in homelessness.

• The union representing the fire rangers with the Ministry of Natural Resources says money won’t fix the systemic problems in the workplace.

• Rallies by a group called Voices Against Violence took place across the country on Monday, including Sault Ste. Marie.

N.L.

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  Remains of missing Kansas man found at scene of western Newfoundland hotel fire

  Investigators found the remains of a 77-year-old American man on Wednesday at the scene of a fire that destroyed a hotel in western Newfoundland earlier on the weekend.

• 77-year-old Kansas man missing after hotel fire in western Newfoundland

  Police in western Newfoundland say a 77-year-old man visiting the province from Kansas is missing after a fire at a hotel in Deer Lake, N.L.

• 83-year-old Newfoundland musician still playing sold-out shows, even with memory loss

  At 2 p.m. on Thursday, the scene at the Lions Club in Clarenville, N.L., rivalled any rowdy St. John's bar that thumps with music late on a weekend night.

Politics

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  Trudeau says Liberals 'strong and united' despite caucus dissent

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Liberal party is 'strong and united,' despite efforts from within his caucus to oust him as leader.

• Poll suggests more than half of Canadians unaware of gridlock in House of Commons

  A debate has ground work in the House of Commons to a halt for weeks, but a new poll suggests that most Canadians are not even aware it's happening.

• Presidents and prime ministers: How cross-border personality clashes could play out

  With the looming United States election, the future of who will be at the helm of the bilateral relationship remains unclear, but Canada cannot escape the geopolitical pull of its closest neighbour.

Health

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  Quarter Pounders are off the menu at 20 per cent of McDonald's in U.S. as E. coli cases are investigated

  McDonald’s worked Wednesday to reassure customers that its U.S. restaurants are safe as federal investigators tried to pinpoint the cause of a deadly E. coli outbreak linked to the fast-food giant's Quarter Pounder hamburgers.

• This common gesture could be a sign of a concussion, researchers say

  A quick shake of the head after a hard hit could signal that a person has a concussion, a new study suggests, based on the experiences of young athletes.

• 'Risk of lead exposure': Kids clothes recalled, Health Canada says

  A recall has been issued for certain clothing items sold at Giant Tiger stores over high levels of lead, according to a notice published by Health Canada Tuesday.

Sci-Tech

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  Hong Kong discovers dinosaur fossils for the first time

  Officials in Hong Kong said Wednesday they have discovered dinosaur fossils in the city for the first time on a remote, uninhabited island that's part of a geopark.

• A meteor lit up our region's sky last night – with a large fireball shooting across the horizon over Lake Erie at around 7:00 p.m.

• The estimated population of North Atlantic right whales increased in 2023, but a group of international marine scientists say human behaviour still poses a significant threat to the critically endangered species.

Entertainment

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  American singer-songwriter Matthew Sweet suffered a stroke while on tour in Toronto earlier this month, and a GoFundMe campaign has been launched to raise money to cover the 'overwhelming' health-care costs.

• Martha Stewart has the funniest reason for not wanting to do ‘The Golden Bachelorette’

  Martha Stewart may be hot in the kitchen, but she’s not looking to replicate that on a dating reality show.

• Harvey Weinstein's retrial moved to next year, lawyer plans to hire a private investigator

  Harvey Weinstein's retrial on sex crimes charges in Manhattan won't start until at least next year — and his lawyer plans to hire a private investigator to look into a new allegation against the movie mogul that will now be part of the case.

Business

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  Starbucks suspends annual forecast as new CEO prepares turnaround plan

  Starbucks Corp suspended its forecast through the next fiscal year as new CEO Brian Niccol looks to turn around the coffee giant struggling with falling demand for its pricey drinks.

• 'Canadians can breathe a sigh of relief': Bank of Canada Governor on interest rate cut

  The Bank of Canada made a sizable cut to its key lending rate Wednesday from 4.25 per cent to 3.75 per cent as the global economy continues to expand. The half percentage point cut is the fourth rate cut in a row by the central bank as inflation dropped from 2.7 per cent in June to 1.6 per cent in September.

• Air Transat laying off hundreds of flight attendants, says cuts are temporary

  Air Transat says it is laying off as many as 400 flight attendants, but plans to bring them back to work at some point.

Lifestyle

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  Lonely Planet’s top places to go in 2025

  Grab your passport and your sunscreen, Lonely Planet has just revealed its 30 must-visit destinations for 2025 as well as a brand-new rundown of top 10 travel trends.

• The Radium Hot Springs in British Columbia's Kootenay National Park has undergone a $29-million makeover.

• They made 36 million Corn Poppers. Here's how they pick the right ones for the Toy Hall of Fame

  When curators at the National Toy Hall of Fame learned last fall that the Fisher-Price Corn Popper had been voted in as part of the class of 2023, they knew they had some serious work to do.

Sports

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  18-year-old files lawsuit over ownership of Shohei Ohtani’s historic 50-50 ball, seeks to prevent auction

  An 18-year-old has filed a lawsuit over the ownership of the ball Shohei Ohtani made baseball history with when he became the inaugural member of the 50-50 club.

• Scottie Barnes and the Toronto Raptors kick off the new NBA season tonight as they host the Cleveland Cavaliers.

• 'Malcolm in the Middle' star Frankie Muniz lands full-time NASCAR ride in 2025

  Former 'Malcolm in the Middle' star Frankie Muniz is set to continue his NASCAR career with a full-time ride in the Truck Series for 2025.

Autos

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  Thousands of hybrid vehicles recalled in Canada over risk of fire

  An increased risk of fire has prompted the recall of thousands of Honda hybrid vehicles in Canada.

• China has deported a VW executive for allegedly using drugs while in Thailand

  A senior executive for Volkswagen in China has been deported for allegedly using cocaine and marijuana while on vacation in Thailand, according to Chinese authorities and German media reports.

• U.S. to probe Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system after pedestrian killed in low visibility conditions

  The U.S. government's road safety agency is investigating Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system after getting reports of crashes in low-visibility conditions, including one that killed a pedestrian.