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Early into the 2023-24 minor hockey season, many players and their parents are getting adjusted to a new policy from Hockey Canada. This season, all minor hockey players are being encouraged to wear the base layer they wear under their equipment to the arena. If they don’t do that, they …

Maria Sabourin thought someone was breaking into her apartment, but says when she called 911 for help she was repeatedly interrupted, misunderstood and treated with disrespect by the operator — an experience that left her “emotionally destroyed.”  Maria Sabourin asked 4 times if police were coming before operator said yes …

When MPs convened Tuesday morning to elect a new Speaker, the general consensus was that the moment was a delicate one. But the memory of Anthony Rota’s final hours in the chair wasn’t the only thing hanging over Tuesday’s proceedings.  Greg Fergus, like every Speaker before him, has his work …

The NDP sailed to victory Tuesday night with a solid win that cements leader Wab Kinew as Manitoba’s first First Nations premier and also nets the party enough seats to form a majority government.  New Democrats emerge with enough seats to form majority government. The NDP sailed to victory Tuesday …

For years when it was in power, the former Conservative government railed against a great, faceless bureaucracy it blamed for undermining its goals for the Department of National Defence (DND). That tactic appears to have been adopted by the current Liberal defence minister as he explains the government’s intention to …

The NDP sailed to victory Tuesday night with a solid win that cements leader Wab Kinew as Manitoba’s first First Nations premier and also nets the party enough seats to form a majority government. New Democrats emerge with enough seats to form majority government. The NDP sailed to victory Tuesday …

Despite fanfare, federal funding and even a visit from the prime minister, the owner of an N.W.T. mine project is closing down its processing plant in Saskatoon. Vital Metals owns Cheetah Resources, which is the owner of the Nechalacho mine project, about 100 kilometres south-east of Yellowknife. The project is …

If this was January, temperatures below -20°C would be barrelling towards Ontario and Quebec. Instead, it’s early October, but it’ll still create a surprisingly strong temperature plunge this long weekend. Visit our Complete Guide to Fall 2023 for an in-depth look at the Fall Forecast, tips to plan for it …

The funeral is scheduled to take place at 2 p.m. PT at the Langley Events Centre. It will include a procession and a memorial service concluding with a final salute. Const. Rick O’Brien was shot dead while executing a drug-related search warrant at a home. The B.C. RCMP are holding …

A real estate investment company that’s bought up dozens of older apartment buildings in recent years has become “a great Canadian growth story” by seizing on the unaffordable housing market, says one of its executives. A group of Hamilton tenants say they’re the ones paying the price. Equiton owns a …