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Politics

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  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.

• Kevin Vickers says 'not a day that goes by' he doesn't think about Parliament Hill shooting

  On the 10-year anniversary of the deadly Parliament Hill shooting, former sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers says there's 'not a day that goes by' where he doesn't think about it.

• Former Conservative leader says Trudeau 'should move on' amid efforts to oust him

  Former Conservative leader Erin O'Toole says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 'should move on,' as he faces growing inner-caucus turmoil.

Health

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  Do the new COVID-19 vaccines include protection from 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.

• With the B.C. election too close to call, Dr. Bonnie Henry was asked Tuesday how she feels about the possibility of a party that has repeatedly called for her firing forming government.

• Are Listeria recalls on the rise or are we just hearing more about them?

  Consumers in Canada are being told to check their freezers after hundreds of frozen waffle products were recalled for fears of a possible Listeria contamination. The voluntary recall was just the latest in a string of listeria-related recalls in North America.

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.

• 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.

• Artificial intelligence a 'double-edged sword' in world of cybersecurity: experts

  In the fight against cyber attackers, they reason AI can help just as much as it harms.

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.

• It was lights, cameras, and action at a beachfront Manitoba community last week as a Hollywood movie shoot took over the town once again.

• Harvey Weinstein has chronic myeloid leukemia, Reuters reports citing NBC

  Former Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has chronic myeloid leukemia, NBC News reported on Monday, citing sources.

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  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.

• Cole Mcleod was home with his roommate in their 21st floor apartment on Monday afternoon when the fire alarm went off in the downtown Vancouver building. Then, he smelled smoke.

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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.

• 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.

• A motorcyclist has been critically injured in a collision on the Queen Elizabeth Way in Oakville, police say.

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  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.

• Bricks along the pathway at Calgary’s Olympic Plaza have been removed and it wasn’t by the city. It appears people are coming to grab bricks with their names, family members’ name or a saying ahead of the plaza closing.

• More than a decade after Colton Crowshoe's death, the case against his killer continues.

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

• Residents of Ottawa's Rideauview neighbourhood say an aggressive wild turkey has become a problem.

• Passengers on a Via Rail train from Toronto found themselves stuck south of Ottawa for several hours Tuesday because of mechanical issues on the train.

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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.

• A Montreal borough and Muslim leader are pushing back against the head of the Parti Québécois after he accused a local library of promoting a "religious invasion" by posting a photo of a young girl wearing a hijab for a storytime event.

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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.

• A new commentary suggests the Government of Alberta purposely pushed false narratives around public safety to scale down safe supply in the province.

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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 member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party is crossing the floor and joining the Progressive Conservatives.

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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.

• No one was hurt after playground equipment went up in flames at a Kitchener, Ont. park.

• A bloodstain pattern analyst expert testified Tuesday at Erick Buhr’s second-degree murder trial.

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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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  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.

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

• After operating for 51 years, General Motors has announced it is closing the Kapuskasing Proving Ground, a facility the automaker used to test the durability of its vehicles in cold weather.

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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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  Emergency crews rushed to the scene of a serious collision in Barrie’s south end involving a passenger vehicle and a motorcycle.

• A 35-year-old man from Etobicoke is facing impaired driving charges after a crash involving a Ministry of Transportation vehicle parked along Highway 11 south.

• A fire that caused $2.5 million damage at a newly constructed house in Adjala-Tosorontio early Tuesday morning is being investigated as suspicious.

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  One week before Halloween a special trick or treat event is taking place in Windsor; the safety village is holding its annual event on Thursday from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.

• If you live in Windsor, Ont. and get a knock at the door from a political canvasser, it might be surprising since there’s no election on the horizon at the municipal, provincial or federal level. But across the border, that's not the case.

• ‘Vampire Zombies…from Space!’ and ‘Thundersnake’, two films that are showing at the Windsor International Film Festival (WIFF), were both shot across the city and in the County of Essex.

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  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.

• With the B.C. election too close to call, Dr. Bonnie Henry was asked Tuesday how she feels about the possibility of a party that has repeatedly called for her firing forming government.

• Premier and NDP Leader David Eby says he's been told by the B.C. Green Party that it's too early to begin talks about a minority government agreement after the weekend's still-undecided provincial election.

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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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  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.

• Alberta is offering infrastructure funding to help municipalities accommodate recent population growth. The province has added a little over 500,000 people over five years, putting pressure on public services.

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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.