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Suspect in Manitoba mass stabbing attack was out on bail, court records show

Several people were taken to hospital after a stabbing attack on Hollow Water First Nation in Manitoba on Thursday. The suspect had a history of prior offences.

The 26-year-old suspect of a mass stabbing attack in Manitoba was out on bail in his rural community of Hollow Water First Nation when he allegedly killed his sister and seriously injured eight other people, including a police officer, this week.

Court records verified by The Globe and Mail show that Tyrone Simard had a history of prior convictions for offences dating back to 2016, including several stints in custody and on supervised probation for assault.

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Canadian campuses are mostly female. What are men doing instead?

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Higher education reporter Joe Friesen spoke with The Decibel podcast about the factors driving the gender gap in higher education. Columnist Marsha Lederman also weighed in on what is lost when fewer men go to university.

As classes begin for students at Canadian universities this month, one group will stand out for its relative underrepresentation: young men.

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Three wildfires in B.C. prompt local officials to issue new evacuation orders

Smoke from the Mine Creek wildfire burning between Hope and Merritt, B.C., on Wednesday.

Three British Columbia wildfires, including a blaze that forced this week’s closing of the Coquihalla Highway, have prompted local officials to issue new evacuation orders.

The Fraser Valley Regional District says it has declared a state of local emergency and issued an evacuation order for the Coquihalla Lakes Lodge and the Coquihalla Summit Snowmobile Club site due to the Mine Creek fire that shut the highway on Wednesday.

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Canada providing $3-million in humanitarian aid for Afghan earthquake victims

Afghans search remnants of damaged houses, after earthquakes at Nurgal district in Kunar province, in Eastern Afghanistan, on Sept. 4, 2025.

The Canadian government is providing $3-million in humanitarian assistance to help people directly affected by recent earthquakes in eastern Afghanistan.

Randeep Sarai, the Secretary of State for International Development, made the announcement on Friday, saying the money will be allocated to organizations working within the country.

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Carney unveils billions in aid to help tariff-hit sectors, delays EV mandate

Honda employees work along the vehicle assembly line in Alliston, Ont.

Prime Minister Mark Carney announced billions of dollars in financial aid and other measures to help Canada adjust to what he called a “rupture” to the global world order.

The suite of programs and changes unveiled Friday include hitting pause on a mandatory sales target for electric vehicles going into effect for the 2026 model year, a $5-billion “strategic response fund” that aims to prioritize supports for sectors exposed in tariff disputes, financial aid for the canola sector and the expansion of employment insurance.

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Quebec City couple among victims killed in deadly Lisbon streetcar crash

Flowers are placed Friday at the site where a funicular crashed in Lisbon.

A Quebec City couple who dedicated their professional lives to restoring artifacts have been confirmed as the two Canadians killed in a funicular crash in Lisbon that also left 14 others dead.

Quebec’s Ministry of Culture and Communications confirmed Friday that Blandine Daux and André Bergeron, who both worked at the provincial conservation centre, died Wednesday when the railcar derailed in Portugal’s capital.

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Morning Update: The unsung heroes of TIFF

Good morning. Just as the Toronto International Film Festival has something for everyone, the 11-day event requires the wide-ranging work of many different hands. More on the heroic effort below, plus news updates from the Middle East and Portugal. But first:

Today’s headlines

  • An internal government document obtained by The Globe lists 32 potential national projects
  • A woman has been killed and the suspect, her brother, is dead after multiple stabbings in Hollow Water First Nation, a small community in Manitoba
  • Tom Pitfield, a top adviser to Mark Carney and a Liberal Party strategist, has ties to Big Tobacco, sources say

© Chris Donovan

Volunteers take down signs after the last red carpet of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival.
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August unemployment rate reaches nine-year high outside of pandemic

Canada had almost 1.6 million people unemployed in August as the economy lost thousands of jobs and its unemployment rate scaled over a nine-year peak barring the pandemic years, data showed on Friday.

Its unemployment rate rose 0.2 percentage points in August to 7.1 per cent, a level last seen in May, 2016, if the COVID-19 years of 2020 and 2021 were excluded, Statscan said

The economy shed 65,500 jobs in August, largely in part-time work, it said, and added that this was fuelled not only by lower hiring but also some layoffs with the layoff rate rising to 1 per cent in August, compared with 0.9 per cent observed 12 months earlier.

© Sean Kilpatrick

Signage mark the Statistics Canada offiices in Ottawa on July 21, 2010. Statistics Canada says it is working with the United States Census Bureau and plans to release the December merchandise data on March 6.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Darkened by ash from wildfires, glaciers in the Canadian Rockies are melting even faster

As the helicopter turned toward Peyto Glacier, located in the Park Ranges of the Canadian Rockies, John Pomeroy and his team of scientists gasped.

Prof. Pomeroy, a distinguished professor and director of the Global Water Futures Observatories at the University of Saskatchewan, has studied the ice mass in Banff National Park since 2008, visiting several times a year to adjust weather stations and photograph changes.

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Dr. John Pomeroy, Director of the Global Water Futures Programme and Coldwater Laboratory in Canmore, walks across Peyto Glacier in Alberta on September 4, 2024.
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Saskatchewan requests notwithstanding case to be folded into Bill 21 Supreme Court hearing

The Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa.

The Saskatchewan government said on Thursday it plans to appeal a case it recently lost in the lower courts to the Supreme Court of Canada.

And, if that’s granted, the province added an unusual request: It wants the top court to combine the proposed appeal with a major Supreme Court case already in progress on Quebec’s secularism law.

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