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  • Judge dismisses media attempt to report details of mental-health history of accused in Lapu-Lapu case
    Media outlets will not be able to report on the mental-health history of the man accused in the Lapu-Lapu Day street festival attack before his eventual trial on 11 counts of second-degree murder and 31 counts of attempted murder, a judge has ruled.On Thursday, B.C. Provincial Court Judge Reginald Harris dismissed an attempt by a media consortium, which includes The Globe and Mail, to lift a publication ban on details of this summer’s hearing into the mental fitness of Kai-Ji Adam Lo.
     

Judge dismisses media attempt to report details of mental-health history of accused in Lapu-Lapu case

11 septembre 2025 à 21:55
Police officers work at the scene after a vehicle drove into a crowd during a Lapu-Lapu Day festival in April.

Media outlets will not be able to report on the mental-health history of the man accused in the Lapu-Lapu Day street festival attack before his eventual trial on 11 counts of second-degree murder and 31 counts of attempted murder, a judge has ruled.

On Thursday, B.C. Provincial Court Judge Reginald Harris dismissed an attempt by a media consortium, which includes The Globe and Mail, to lift a publication ban on details of this summer’s hearing into the mental fitness of Kai-Ji Adam Lo.

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  • Support staff at Ontario’s public colleges go on strike
    Workers at Ontario colleges went on strike Thursday, one of two major labour disputes that have disrupted the first weeks of classes at Canadian postsecondary schools.More than 10,000 support staff in the Ontario college system launched pickets at the province’s 24 institutions after negotiations with the College Employer Council broke down over worker demands related to job security and other issues.
     

Support staff at Ontario’s public colleges go on strike

11 septembre 2025 à 21:08
College support staff picket outside George Brown College's St. James Campus in Toronto on Thursday.

Workers at Ontario colleges went on strike Thursday, one of two major labour disputes that have disrupted the first weeks of classes at Canadian postsecondary schools.

More than 10,000 support staff in the Ontario college system launched pickets at the province’s 24 institutions after negotiations with the College Employer Council broke down over worker demands related to job security and other issues.

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  • Haida Nation’s Aboriginal title secured through court order
    An agreement between the Haida Nation and the federal and provincial governments has been given court approval, cementing the nation’s Aboriginal title to all one million hectares of Haida Gwaii, once known as the Queen Charlotte Islands.Private landowners have been assured that there will be no changes to their ownership status, but the transition of governance over Crown-land tenures and parks on the archipelago off B.C.’s north coast is still being worked out.
     

Haida Nation’s Aboriginal title secured through court order

11 septembre 2025 à 21:04
A Haida elder and members of a youth group paddle a canoe in Gwaii Haanas National Park, in 2012. The Haida, B.C. and Ottawa signed a deal in 2024 formally recognizing Haida Nation’s Aboriginal title to Haida Gwaii.

An agreement between the Haida Nation and the federal and provincial governments has been given court approval, cementing the nation’s Aboriginal title to all one million hectares of Haida Gwaii, once known as the Queen Charlotte Islands.

Private landowners have been assured that there will be no changes to their ownership status, but the transition of governance over Crown-land tenures and parks on the archipelago off B.C.’s north coast is still being worked out.

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  • Clinical trials for childhood cancer closed to new Canadian patients in wake of U.S. funding cuts
    At least five cutting-edge clinical trials for childhood cancer have been closed to new Canadian patients because of the Trump administration’s cuts to scientific funding and its directive that grants no longer be shared with foreign researchers.Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children halted enrolment in three trials for incurable brain cancer last month after the U.S. National Cancer Institute decided not to renew funding for a consortium of pediatric brain-tumour scientists whose only Canadian si
     

Clinical trials for childhood cancer closed to new Canadian patients in wake of U.S. funding cuts

11 septembre 2025 à 20:14
SickKids hospital in Toronto in February, 2023.

At least five cutting-edge clinical trials for childhood cancer have been closed to new Canadian patients because of the Trump administration’s cuts to scientific funding and its directive that grants no longer be shared with foreign researchers.

Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children halted enrolment in three trials for incurable brain cancer last month after the U.S. National Cancer Institute decided not to renew funding for a consortium of pediatric brain-tumour scientists whose only Canadian site was at SickKids.

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  • Carney commits to pharmacare agreements with provinces, territories without deals
    Prime Minister Mark Carney says the government will sign agreements with provinces and territories that have yet to ink deals for public coverage of some diabetes medications and supplies, as well as contraceptives.Mr. Carney’s comments on Thursday in Edmonton, where he has been meeting with his caucus ahead of Parliament’s fall sitting, marked the first time that the Prime Minister has explicitly committed to additional pharmacare agreements.
     

Carney commits to pharmacare agreements with provinces, territories without deals

11 septembre 2025 à 20:07
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Ottawa is determined to reach agreements with outstanding provinces 'as quickly and as equitably as possible.'

Prime Minister Mark Carney says the government will sign agreements with provinces and territories that have yet to ink deals for public coverage of some diabetes medications and supplies, as well as contraceptives.

Mr. Carney’s comments on Thursday in Edmonton, where he has been meeting with his caucus ahead of Parliament’s fall sitting, marked the first time that the Prime Minister has explicitly committed to additional pharmacare agreements.

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  • Ottawa ties stalled carbon-capture project to new pipeline
    Reducing emissions from Alberta’s oil sands, including progress on a massive carbon-capture project, will be a “necessary condition” to unlocking new pipelines to Canada’s coasts to access export markets, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday.The Pathways Alliance carbon-capture initiative is a 400-kilometre-long pipeline that would transport carbon trapped at oil-sands facilities to an underground hub near Cold Lake, Alta., with the aim of reducing emissions by 22 megatonnes a year.
     

Ottawa ties stalled carbon-capture project to new pipeline

11 septembre 2025 à 19:50
Suncor's base plant and upgrader in Fort McMurray, Alta., June, 2017. The Pathways project is meant to play a key role in the pledge by the Pathways Alliance to bring emissions to net zero by 2050.

Reducing emissions from Alberta’s oil sands, including progress on a massive carbon-capture project, will be a “necessary condition” to unlocking new pipelines to Canada’s coasts to access export markets, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday.

The Pathways Alliance carbon-capture initiative is a 400-kilometre-long pipeline that would transport carbon trapped at oil-sands facilities to an underground hub near Cold Lake, Alta., with the aim of reducing emissions by 22 megatonnes a year.

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  • Quebec bracing for protests with arrival of Israel-Premier Tech cycling team
    The global controversy over an Israel-affiliated team’s participation in the world cycling tour is coming to Canada this week as race organizers in Quebec City and Montreal grapple with possible disruption by pro-Palestinian activists amidst an outcry over the war in Gaza. The Grand Prix Cycliste events in the two cities are bracing for protests against Israel-Premier Tech, a team with deep ties to both Canada and Israel, which has faced mounting opposition since the beginning of the conflict in
     

Quebec bracing for protests with arrival of Israel-Premier Tech cycling team

11 septembre 2025 à 19:31
The main pack cycles by Place Royale near the Chateau Frontenac at the 2023 Grand Prix Cycliste de Quebec, in Quebec City.

The global controversy over an Israel-affiliated team’s participation in the world cycling tour is coming to Canada this week as race organizers in Quebec City and Montreal grapple with possible disruption by pro-Palestinian activists amidst an outcry over the war in Gaza.

The Grand Prix Cycliste events in the two cities are bracing for protests against Israel-Premier Tech, a team with deep ties to both Canada and Israel, which has faced mounting opposition since the beginning of the conflict in October 2023.

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  • NHL says players acquitted in Hockey Canada sexual assault trial can return to league
    The National Hockey League has cleared the way for the five members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team who were acquitted of sexual-assault charges to return to the NHL.The league issued a statement Thursday that said Dillon Dubé, Cal Foote, Alex Formenton, Carter Hart and Michael McLeod will be eligible to sign new contracts “no sooner than October 15, 2025, and eligible to play in NHL games no sooner than December 1, 2025.”
     

NHL says players acquitted in Hockey Canada sexual assault trial can return to league

11 septembre 2025 à 17:36
Michael McLeod, left, Cal Foote, Dillon Dubé, Alex Formenton and Carter Hart were found not guilty of sexual assault in July.

The National Hockey League has cleared the way for the five members of Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team who were acquitted of sexual-assault charges to return to the NHL.

The league issued a statement Thursday that said Dillon Dubé, Cal Foote, Alex Formenton, Carter Hart and Michael McLeod will be eligible to sign new contracts “no sooner than October 15, 2025, and eligible to play in NHL games no sooner than December 1, 2025.”

Oct. 7 doc The Road Between Us to get Canada, U.S. theatrical release next month

11 septembre 2025 à 15:40
Director Barry Avrich and retired Israeli general Noam Tibon arrive on the red carpet for The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue at the Toronto International Film Festival on Wednesday.

A documentary about a retired Israeli general’s Oct. 7 rescue mission will hit theatres mere weeks after its Toronto premiere was met with protesters.

Representatives for the film say The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue is set to open Oct. 3 on 125 screens in Canada and the United States, including in Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal.

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  • Legal scholar Beth Bilson was a ‘legend’ to generations of women in law
    Beth Bilson, a leading academic scholar on labour and administrative law, the first woman to be appointed dean at the University of Saskatchewan’s law school and chair of an influential federal task force on pay equity, has died at age 79. “Beth was the epitome of an excellent academic lawyer,” said Thomas Cromwell, a retired Supreme Court of Canada justice who worked closely with Ms. Bilson when she was editor of the Canadian Bar Review and he chaired the publication’s editorial board. The two
     

Legal scholar Beth Bilson was a ‘legend’ to generations of women in law

11 septembre 2025 à 15:23
Beth Bilson, who died on Aug. 13 at 79, chaired a federal task force whose recommendations inspired the Pay Equity Act of 2018.

Beth Bilson, a leading academic scholar on labour and administrative law, the first woman to be appointed dean at the University of Saskatchewan’s law school and chair of an influential federal task force on pay equity, has died at age 79.

“Beth was the epitome of an excellent academic lawyer,” said Thomas Cromwell, a retired Supreme Court of Canada justice who worked closely with Ms. Bilson when she was editor of the Canadian Bar Review and he chaired the publication’s editorial board. The two first got to know each other as legal academics in the 1980s, when Mr. Cromwell taught law at Dalhousie University and Ms. Bilson was at the University of Saskatchewan.

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  • Conservatives will introduce a bail reform bill this fall, Poilievre says
    Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his party will introduce a bill this fall that would make it harder for people accused of certain crimes to get bail.Poilievre says the proposal would create a new category of major offences that includes things like sexual assault, kidnapping, human trafficking, home invasion and firearms charges.
     

Conservatives will introduce a bail reform bill this fall, Poilievre says

11 septembre 2025 à 12:36
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in Woodbridge, Ont., on Thursday. He said his party will introduce a bill to make it harder for people accused of certain crimes to get bail.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says his party will introduce a bill this fall that would make it harder for people accused of certain crimes to get bail.

Poilievre says the proposal would create a new category of major offences that includes things like sexual assault, kidnapping, human trafficking, home invasion and firearms charges.

Canadians can now make claims for payouts in Loblaw bread price-fixing settlement

11 septembre 2025 à 12:09
Bread at a Loblaws store in Toronto. Canadian residents can now submit claims for a bread price-fixing settlement involving Loblaw and its parent company.

Canadian shoppers now have a chance to get their share of a $500-million settlement in a class-action lawsuit related to the alleged industry-wide price fixing of bread.

Strosberg Wingfield Sasso LLP and Orr Taylor LLP said Thursday the claims process is now open in the approved settlement involving Loblaw Cos. Ltd. L-T and its parent company George Weston Ltd. WN-T

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  • Parents visit site of crash at Ontario daycare that killed toddler
    Parents and members of the community left flowers and teddy bears in front of a daycare in Richmond Hill, Ont., the site of a crash that killed a toddler and injured six other kids. York Regional Police said a 70-year-old man was arrested at the scene and faces one count of dangerous driving causing death and one count of dangerous driving causing bodily harm.
     

Parents visit site of crash at Ontario daycare that killed toddler

11 septembre 2025 à 11:42
Parents and members of the community left flowers and teddy bears in front of a daycare in Richmond Hill, Ont., the site of a crash that killed a toddler and injured six other kids. York Regional Police said a 70-year-old man was arrested at the scene and faces one count of dangerous driving causing death and one count of dangerous driving causing bodily harm.

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