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Canada Exported Half Its Steel. Almost All of It Went South.
Natural Resources Canada’s first full Sustainable Jobs Action Plan retrains up to 10,000 mill workers and tops up EI on days they are not working.
Sep 18
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A Group Claimed It Could Control a Quebec Water Plant’s Chlorine Pumps
CSE’s 2025-2026 annual report records 3,216 cyber incidents, 67 ransomware warnings, and an operation that deleted stolen data from the dark web.
Sep 15
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Mike B.
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Canada’s Climate Mental Health Map Stops at Fort McMurray
The federal climate change mental health review found years of distress, and large gaps beyond Alberta.
Sep 11
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Mike B.
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Uganda Declared the Outbreak Over. Canada Kept 26,111 Files Frozen.
A boarding ban, a 21-day quarantine, and 31,693 permanent residence applications held through September 28.
Sep 8
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Mike B.
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Canada Border Officers Spot Illegal Crossings They Are Barred From Stopping
At the Whirlpool Bridge and across rural ports, CBSA officers watch crossings happen and wait hours for RCMP backup they are powerless to skip.
Aug 28
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Mike B.
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Every Parking Spot at the Drive-In Counts as Three Seats
Published August 22: $1.50 a seat on capacity for 2017 through 2024, due November 20. From 2025, a cut of the basic ticket.
Aug 25
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Mike B.
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A Five-to-Four Vote Closed the File on 15 Years of Bridge Tolls
The House operations committee stopped a motion to release the Gordie Howe agreement and have the Parliamentary Budget Officer price it.
Aug 21
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Mike B.
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The 2026 Car Had a 20 Percent Zero-Emission Floor. Ottawa Wants It Gone.
Zero-emission sales had already fallen from 14 percent to 9 percent. The repeal's own cost-benefit statement puts the net cost at $90.3 billion.
Aug 18
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Mike B.
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Parliament’s MAID Committee Rejects Another Deadline
Its only recommendation is an indefinite exclusion after the same clinical and system disputes delayed eligibility twice before.
Aug 14
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Mike B.
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A Saskatchewan First Nation Unlocks Bond Market Rates for Community Infrastructure
Adding Whitecap Dakota to Schedule 2 of federal adaptation regulations enables direct access to low-cost pooled borrowing.
Aug 12
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Mike B.
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Transport Canada Replaced an Emergency Pilotage Order for LNG Carriers
The new order replaces a July 2025 measure and gives coordinates, scope, and a safety finding without describing the urgent issue behind it.
Aug 11
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Mike B.
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CBC Reports Billions, but Not Local Station Spending
The Senate wants CBC/Radio-Canada’s mandate rewritten around local communities, with public station-level reports showing whether the money follows the…
Aug 7
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Mike B.
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