Some P.E.I. residents still without power after nine days
As of Monday evening, there were still over 16,000 customers on the Island without power.
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Al Monaco leaves Enbridge at year end, board chair Greg Ebel named next CEO
His decade at the helm of Enbridge was a tumultuous one for the broader industry, featuring everything from boom-time growth in 2012-14 to the contentious politics and protests surrounding North American pipeline projects to the oil price crash of 2014-15.
In Brazil's Amazon regions, polls taken up to 1,000 miles so people can vote
In most democracies, citizens go to the polls. But in Brazil’s sparsely populated Amazon region, the polls often go to the voters.
Quebec provincial election is today
Quebecers are heading to the polls today, October 3, 2022, after a five-week provincial election campaign dominated by issues such as immigration, the environment and the rising cost of living.
Russian embassy complaints reveal challenge of protecting embassies and diplomats
Russia’s recent complaints about its Ottawa embassy being blocked by protesters and attacked with a Molotov cocktail shed light on the tricky balance Canada faces in protecting diplomatic missions.
King Charles III decides not to attend COP27 climate summit
King Charles III has decided not to attend the international climate change summit in Egypt next month, fueling speculation that the new monarch will have to rein in his environmental activism now that he has ascended the throne.
Ontario sex workers challenge criminal laws in court, citing Charter violation
An alliance of sex worker rights groups is in Ontario Superior Court today, October 3, 2022, asking for several sections of the Criminal Code to be deemed unconstitutional.
U.S. federal government ready to unleash massive disaster aid for hurricane Ian victims
With the death toll from Hurricane Ian rising and hundreds of thousands of people without power in Florida and the Carolinas, U.S. officials vowed on Sunday, October 2, 2022, to unleash a massive amount of federal disaster aid as crews scrambled to rescue people stranded by the storm.
Dangers persist in Florida in hurricane Ian's wake
People kayaking down streets that were passable just a day or two earlier. Hundreds of thousands without power. National Guard helicopters flying rescue missions to residents still stranded on Florida’s barrier islands.
Jason Kenney set to step down from job as Alberta premier
Don’t cry for me, Alberta, I was leaving anyway.
In the U.S., clean water is becoming a luxury
Running water is everything, which you don’t realize fully until you’re without.
Investigation reveals Poilievre, populist and pro-natural gas groups spread fertilizer disinformation to whip up outrage against Trudeau
Conservative politicians and advocacy groups linked to Canada's far-right and fossil fuel lobby have been posting erroneous information about the federal government's fertilizer plan, a Canada's National Observer investigation reveals.
It’s a race against time to keep Winnipeg’s older tree canopies alive
On the corner of Lilac Street and Mulvey Avenue, three tall, stately American elm trees bear an ominous orange dot. It’s Winnipeg’s mark of death: the familiar, telltale sign that a tree won’t live through the coming winter.
‘Our country’s history is complicated – but you don’t make it better by ignoring it or glossing over it’: Murray Sinclair
It was a day that centered survivors and their stories, but also demanded that reconciliation march forward each and every day.
Chief urges reflection – Canada's day of Truth and Reconciliation
The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says today's National Day of Truth and Reconciliation is about the survivors of Canada's residential schools and the children who died in them and never made it home.