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57 points | 11 comments
https://thewalrus.ca/separating-from-canada-would-be-an-economic-disaster-for-alberta/
The motivations that have contributed to the separatist movement and Alberta’s sense of grievance in recent years are not especially discrete; it’s more like a nebulous Venn diagram. Simple politics have pushed some people toward separatism. Indeed, the…
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12 points | 3 comments
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/cenovus-says-oilfield-extension-off-newfoundland-will-hike-emissions-by-21-per-cent/article_165a62b5-515f-56bb-9cf3-cfa1d1f90398.html
The Newfoundland and Labrador government has approved hikes in greenhouse gas emissions at a nickel mine in northern Labrador and the Cenovus-owned White Rose…
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81 points | 20 comments
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-person-autism-partial-schooling-9.7175015
Within an hour of dropping my son off at junior kindergarten, I’m called to pick him up. The excitement of the first day of school quickly gives way to sadness and embarrassment. He was sitting on a chair in the office sucking his thumb while the secretary…
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82 points | 21 comments
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-ethics-blind-trust-9.7174747
Prime Minister Mark Carney and other Canadian prime ministers should be required to divest their investment portfolios when they assume office, not just put them in a blind trust, the House of Commons ethics committee recommends in a new report.
In its report made…
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46 points | 3 comments
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/metrotown-false-arrest-detainment-mall-9.7174133
A B.C. Supreme Court judge has ordered the owner of Burnaby’s Metropolis at Metrotown mall and a security contractor to pay more than $1.8 million in damages after they admitted to security guards injuring an 18-year-old during a detainment in…
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9 points | 1 comments
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/firefighter-union-sounds-alarm-over-od-crisis-in-saskatoon-9.7170502
Saskatoon firefighters have issued a public plea for help dealing with a surge in overdose-related calls, and their union is warning the status quo could lead to longer waits for other emergency calls.
“We really haven’t got out…
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135 points | 65 comments
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/solar-wind-ember-renewables-electricity-9.7170953
Renewable energy met all new demand for electricity in 2025, according to a new review of global power generation, halting the growth of fossil fuel-powered generation and highlighting the promise of clean sources like wind and solar.
The authoritative…
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39 points | 8 comments
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-secularism-law-schools-9.7165798
Montreal’s largest school board has lost more than 100 support staff because they refused to remove religious symbols to comply with the province’s new secularism law.
The law, known as Bill 94, expanded a ban on wearing religious symbols, like crosses and…
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434 points | 39 comments
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/18/iran-war-bets-ethics-concerns
Sixteen bets made $100,000 accurately predicting the timing of the US airstrikes against Iran on 27 February. Later, a single user would make over $550,000 after betting that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would topple, just moments before his assassination by Israeli…
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375 points | 23 comments
https://theintercept.com/2026/04/17/lebanon-israel-black-wednesday-bombing-id-dna/
The cold-storage units at the Hariri hospital have been fashioned into ad hoc laboratories to identify a relentless influx of dead bodies.
The unprecedented scales of DNA identification of corpses is born of a macabre need. Last week, after Iran and the…
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59 points | 9 comments
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/teens-speak-at-public-works-committee-9.7165096
Two Hamilton teens are wondering why the city’s plan to build a much needed basketball court in Gage Park is going to take 25 years.
“I don’t know about you, but I will be 41 when this court is supposed to be built,” Norrie King, 16, told councillors…
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273 points | 46 comments
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/16/utah-measles-cases-outbreak
Utah has emerged as a major center of measles infections in the US, as an outbreak that has been building for some time continues to expand.
State officials reported a total of 602 measles cases on Wednesday tied to an outbreak that started last year and is still…
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461 points | 42 comments
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/microsoft-us-tech-firms-lobbied-eu-secrecy-rules-datacentre-emissions
Microsoft and other US tech companies successfully lobbied the EU to hide the environmental toll of their datacentres, an investigation has found, with demands to block a database of green metrics from public view…
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66 points | 15 comments
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/imperial-oil-pipeline-spill-bitumen-emulsion-9.7165429
An Imperial Oil pipeline spilled 843,000 litres of bitumen emulsion northwest of Cold Lake, Alta., last week.
In a statement to CBC News, Imperial Oil spokesperson Lisa Schmidt said teams responded immediately. The release, which occurred April…
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20 points | 3 comments
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alana-duncan-grandparent-scam-fraud-guilty-sentencing-9.7159841
A Calgary woman who participated in a grandparent scam, stealing thousands of dollars from elderly victims, including three who were in their 90s, should get to serve her sentence at home, lawyers argued Friday.
Alana Love Duncan, 48,…
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17 points | 2 comments
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/new-measles-cases-late-march-early-april-9.7159993
Manitoba recorded dozens of new measles cases over the final days of March and into early April, as the province continues to be Canada’s hot spot for the highly contagious disease.
Between March 29 and April 4, Manitoba had 36 new confirmed measles…
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30 points | 8 comments
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-government-bill-5-legal-challenge-9.7156329
Several environmental groups have launched a constitutional challenge seeking to kill an Ontario law that allows cabinet to suspend other laws.
Wildlands League, Environmental Defence Canada, Friends of the Earth Canada and Democracy Watch allege…
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25 points | 6 comments
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/brian-masse-sports-betting-9.7149986
The former MP who spent more than a decade pushing to legalize single-event sports betting says he doesn’t regret it — but says its implementation is in some ways “sad” and “deplorable.”
He also says more regulation is required to curb the volume and methods of gambling…
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522 points | 154 comments
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/02/aoc-blocks-israel-military-aid
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a US representative, said on Wednesday that she will oppose any future US military aid to Israel, including for defensive systems.
In a statement on social media, Ocasio-Cortez said that Israel was fully capable of funding “Iron Dome…
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421 points | 116 comments
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/charlie-kirk-bullet-rifle
An analysis from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive (ATF) could not conclusively connect a bullet fragment recovered during Charlie Kirk’s autopsy to the rifle found near the scene of the rightwing political activist’s killing – and the…
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565 points | 174 comments
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/31/charlie-kirk-bullet-rifle
An analysis from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive (ATF) could not conclusively connect a bullet fragment recovered during Charlie Kirk’s autopsy to the rifle found near the scene of the rightwing political activist’s killing – and the…
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338 points | 33 comments
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/28/firms-with-more-women-in-top-roles-more-likely-to-dismiss-abusive-men-study-finds
Companies who employ more women in senior roles are much more likely to dismiss men accused of sexually or physically abusing their colleagues, according to analysis of international and UK data.
Men were more…
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11 points | 3 comments
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nunavik-rare-earth-mining-project-9.7138515
Amid Prime Minister Mark Carney’s calls that the Canada-U.S. relationship is ruptured, Ottawa has committed $175 million to a mining project in northern Quebec whose major U.S. investor is closely linked to the Trump administration.
Energy and Natural Resources…
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18 points | 12 comments
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/air-canada-plane-crash-runway-incursions-9.7141365
Investigators in the U.S. and Canada have cautioned that it is too early to determine a cause and that several safeguards would have had to fail for a disaster of this magnitude to occur.
In aviation safety, this is known as the Swiss Cheese Model, which…
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16 points | 13 comments
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-police-counter-terrorism-unit-rifles-toronto-9.7140751
Toronto police say they are creating a counter-terrorism unit and a specialized task force that will see officers with semi-automatic rifles stationed at key locations in the city.
The locations include places of worship, tourist…
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22 points | 6 comments
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ont-legislature-9.7139024
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s cellphone records took centre stage as the provincial legislature resumed sitting Monday for the first time since December, with the opposition accusing the premier of having something to hide.
One of the many pieces of legislation the government…
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6 points | 1 comments
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/03/23/Carney-Defeatist-Dismissal-International-Law/
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s much criticized ambiguity about the role of international law regarding U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran is more than an excusable stumble by an inexperienced politician operating in a challenging environment.
Carney is…
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453 points | 100 comments
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/21/trump-robert-mueller-death
Donald Trump has been condemned as a “vile, disgusting man” and a “sick human being” after gloating over the death of Robert Mueller, a former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Mueller, a decorated Vietnam war veteran who led a politically…
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285 points | 49 comments
https://theintercept.com/2026/03/21/hegseth-military-beard-hair-crackdown/
The latest edict from beard-obsessed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth adds strict new regulations to his crusade on facial hair, which rights groups have characterized as an attack on troops’ civil liberties.
In a March 11 memo, Hegseth, who has made grooming and…
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42 points | 3 comments
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/supervised-consumption-closing-southern-alberta-9.7136672
The lone supervised drug consumption sites in Calgary and Lethbridge will close at the end of June, the provincial government announced on Friday.
Calgary’s supervised consumption site (SCS) was the first of its kind to open in Alberta in…