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Politics

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  Unspecified number of Liberal MPs set to confront Trudeau, ask him to step down

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will face down his own caucus members in a hotly anticipated meeting this morning, as several of them plan to try to convince him to step aside.

• PM Trudeau doesn't think his leadership is in danger, as ministers voice confidence in him a day before key Liberal meeting

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he doesn't think his leadership is in danger, one day before a highly anticipated Liberal caucus meeting where his future at the helm of the Liberal party is expected to be up for discussion.

• 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.

Health

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  Does the updated COVID-19 vaccine protect against the XEC variant?

  The XEC strain, a hybrid of Omicron subvariants KS.1.1 and KP.3.3, was first detected in Canada in mid-August and the number of COVID-19 cases with the XEC variant has rapidly increased.

• A new report suggests that Canadians' exposure to a radioactive gas is increasing, putting millions of people at a higher risk of developing lung cancer.

• The Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA) and opposition leaders at Queen's Park are calling on the government to reduce, or eliminate, parking fees at hospitals for staff, patients and visitors.

Sci-Tech

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  A giant meteorite boiled the oceans 3.2 billion years ago, but provided a 'fertilizer bomb' for life

  A massive space rock, estimated to be the size of four Mount Everests, slammed into Earth more than 3 billion years ago — and the impact could have been unexpectedly beneficial for the earliest forms of life on our planet, according to new research.

• 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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  Initial report shows Liam Payne had cocaine in his system when he died, says Argentine official

  An initial toxicology report for ex-One Direction singer Liam Payne, who died last week after falling from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires, showed that he had cocaine in his system after his death, an Argentine official said.

• Taylor Swift fans from far and wide will head to Toronto next month to see the superstar perform a series of six sold out shows at the Rogers Centre.

• Kuwait bans 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 6' video game, likely over it featuring Saddam Hussein in 1990s

  The tiny Mideast nation of Kuwait has banned the release of the video game 'Call of Duty: Black Ops 6,' which features the late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and is set in part in the 1990s Gulf War.

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  Green Leader Sonia Furstenau is set to meet the media for the first time since British Columbia's indecisive election on Saturday, amid speculation about a possible minority government.

• Two Vancouver city councillors are questioning why they’ve been ousted from city appointed roles.

• The rain has only just stopped pummelling parts of Metro Vancouver, but for the hundreds of residents left with flood-damaged homes, the nightmare is far from over.

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  The Ontario Nurses' Association (ONA) and opposition leaders at Queen's Park are calling on the government to reduce, or eliminate, parking fees at hospitals for staff, patients and visitors.

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  DEVELOPING | BMO online service outages reported by customers

  Dozens of Bank of Montreal customers said they faced website outages early Wednesday morning, according to reports.

• Bank of Canada to release interest rate decision, economic forecast today

  The Bank of Canada is set to make its latest interest rate decision this morning.

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  A new report suggests that Canadians' exposure to a radioactive gas is increasing, putting millions of people at a higher risk of developing lung cancer.

• Bank of Canada to release interest rate decision, economic forecast today

  The Bank of Canada is set to make its latest interest rate decision this morning.

• 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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  An Orléans property that once belonged to a religious order is now in the City of Ottawa's hands.

• You will be able to pick up beer, cider, wine and ready-to-drink alcoholic beverages at Costco, Walmart and more grocery stores in Ottawa next week.

• Popular Kanata restaurant D'Arcy McGee's has suddenly closed its doors. In a post on Facebook Tuesday night, D'Arcy McGee's said, "We will sadly be closing our doors."

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  Quebec Premier Francois Legault promised on Tuesday to toughen secularism measures in schools, saying he was 'shocked' by revelations about a Montreal public school where a group of teachers had tried to introduce what the premier described as 'Islamist' beliefs.

• The Quebec government wants to hear Quebecers' thoughts about scrapping the twice-yearly time change, but it isn't promising to act on them.

• The death of a woman in her 50s in Montreal's Anjou borough is being considered as 'suspicious' by authorities.

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  Police are looking for a man and a woman who robbed an Edmonton jewelry store earlier this month.

• Edmonton Public Schools (EPS) custodians have voted 97 per cent in favour of going on strike.

• The Carolina Hurricanes really turned the tide in the third period on Tuesday night.

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  Police have confirmed the body of an employee who died at a Walmart in Halifax over the weekend was found in a walk-in oven.

• The president of a popular New Brunswick potato chip company has been arrested for domestic violence in Bangor, Maine.

• A special weather statement is in effect Wednesday as Environment Canada warns of possible heavy rain and strong winds in parts of Nova Scotia later this week.

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  Folks making the trek to and from Thompson along Highway 6 are once again without a bathroom break… at least for now.

• The Manitoba government is restoring the 1:1 apprentice-to-journeyperson ratio.

• A number of Manitoba communities kicked off the week by breaking decades-old heat records.

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  Saskatchewan's Conflict of Interest Commissioner (COIC) has found that former Saskatchewan Party MLA Gary Grewal violated legislative rules by profiting from hotels while they were party to government contracts.

• A determined group within Moose Jaw has stepped up to provide assistance to those in need – following the closure of one of the city's shelters.

• Saturday's matchup between the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Calgary Stampeders could determine if they clinch the West Division title, however the results from Winnipeg's game earlier in the day could make their matchup meaningless.

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  Waterloo Regional Police are investigating a sudden death in Kitchener.

• Employees at a grocery store in Cambridge had a surprising start to their morning as they walked in to work to find a fire.

• Ontario Provincial Police are looking for a missing teenager from Goderich.

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  A Saskatoon family is voicing concerns after paying twice as much PST as expected on a recently purchased truck.

• Hundreds of voter information cards have landed in the wrong hands.

• A city planning document for the Bus Rapid Transit system (BRT) sparked controversy over the weekend, with three civic election candidates alleging Confederation Mall was at risk of being demolished and replaced with dense housing.

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

• W5 Investigates

  W5 Investigates | How a clothes donation bin company passed itself off as a charity, while donated items were put up for sale

  In part two of a four-part investigation into the seedy underbelly of the lucrative clothing donation bin industry, CTV W5 uses trackers tp reveal a for-profit operation masquerading as a charity.

• Now that the jury has begun deliberating in the Sudbury murder trial of Felicity Altiman, here are some of the interesting courtroom moments they didn't get to hear.

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  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.

• A father and his two children who suffered severe burns in a Springfield, Ont. house fire have undergone surgery.

• A collision between a pickup truck and SUV shuttered the intersection of Base Line and New Road for several hours.

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• A 18-yeare-old driver smashed into a well-lit cruiser after evading police.

• A thriving circular economy extends the lives of products.

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  U.S. sales are down and a once-reliably profitable joint venture in China is losing money, but General Motors still managed to post a third quarter profit of $3 billion Tuesday, slightly less than it made a year ago.

• Residents living in central Windsor are calling for after-hours construction to expand a commercial development to stop.

• NextStar Energy is celebrating the official start of battery module production.

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  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 Leader Sonia Furstenau is set to meet the media for the first time since British Columbia's indecisive election on Saturday, amid speculation about a possible minority government.

• Mounties in British Columbia say a second person has been found dead after two vehicles ended up in a river on Vancouver Island when a road washed out amid torrential rains over the weekend.

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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 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.

• Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she's waiting for NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi to declare where he intends to run for office before she calls a byelection in Lethbridge.

• The health of honeybees will be the focus of a presentation at the University of Lethbridge on Wednesday evening.

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  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.

• An Indigenous group in northwestern Ontario shut down the highway for a couple of hours Monday morning in protest after ancestral remains were found at a construction site.

N.L.

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  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.

• Is it pickled fat? Pierogi? Newfoundland 'blobster' expert eyeing weird beach goo

  A Newfoundland scientist known for identifying a gelatinous, rancid mass that washed up on the island's shores decades ago is hoping to get his hands on a slice of the strange white globs appearing on the province's beaches.