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Darlene Jacques

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Avid news reader. Love gift articles. I post CBC news articles that I find interesting. Proud Canadian. Now living in Exeter, home of the famous white squirrels.

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 14h
Fly With Me Animal Rescue in Halifax #NovaScotia is urgently looking for some people to foster dogs or you can adopt 🥰 Link here www.flywithmeanimalrescue.com
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 14h
haha holy crappppppppppppppppp
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 14h
we’re past peak-trump (and the world knows it) @france24.com
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Steve Paikin @spaikin.bsky.social · 13h
Queen’s Park needs a facelift. Ontario should give PEI a call. www.tvo.org/article/quee... #onpoli #PEIpoli @princeedwardisland.bsky.social
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Queen’s Park needs a facelift. Ontario should give PEI a call | TVO Today
I toured Charlottetown’s newly renovated legislative assembly — and found a project worth learning from.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h
TRUMP: This is gonna bring prices down. Way down. When do you see completion of the job, fellas? BUSINESS GUY: Well, the pipeline will take 3 years
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National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 13h
Stelco's U.S. owner to face 'fullest extent of the law' over layoffs: PM Carney. Stelco, owned by Ohio-based Cleveland-Cliffs, directly linked its layoff plans in Hamilton to trade war www.cbc.ca/news/busines... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
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Stelco's U.S. owner to face 'fullest extent of the law' over layoffs: PM Carney | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says the federal government will use "all powers" at its disposal to pursue Stelco's American owners "to the fullest extent of the law."
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Unofficial CP24 Mirror @cp24-mirror.bsky.social · 13h
‘We’re saving lives’: Chris Alexander unveils plan to move Toronto’s unhoused into apartments
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‘We’re saving lives’: Chris Alexander unveils plan to move Toronto’s unhoused into apartments
Toronto mayoral candidate Chris Alexander is promising to move thousands of people experiencing homelessness out of shelters and into permanent housing, aiming for 1,000 placements by summer 2027 as part of a four-year plan to relieve pressure on the city’s over-burdened shelter system.
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PEIPolitical 🇨🇦 @peipolitical.bsky.social · 13h
Mark Carney: "For more than a century, this country ran residential schools. Over 150,000 First Nations, Métis, Inuit children attended them. This is not a distant chapter in Canada's past, but a truth that endures. And truth is the foundation of justice." #cdnpoli
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Isaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 12h
Some Scarborough commuters will have their travel time shortened, the TTC says, thanks to the Wednesday opening of the new Scarborough Busway. #ToPoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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New busway opens up along former Scarborough RT route | CBC News
Some Scarborough commuters will have their travel time shortened, the TTC says, thanks to the opening of the new Scarborough Busway on Wednesday.
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 12h
Opinion: It could have been worse for Pierre Poilievre — at least Scott Aitchison isn't leaving the Conservative caucus to join Mark Carney’s Liberals. The eighth departure from Poilievre’s caucus is in itself remarkable — the Conservatives have now lost more MPs than the New Democrats won in 2025.
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Susan Delacourt: Pierre Poilievre’s MPs are disappearing even faster than he is
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Semafor @semafor.com · 12h
Visitors to the US are on track to drop by almost two million year-on-year. “We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” www.semafor.com/article/09/2...
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Unofficial CP24 Mirror @cp24-mirror.bsky.social · 12h
Ontario ministers defend secret payout to Elon Musk's SpaceX over nixed Starlink deal
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Ontario ministers defend secret payout to Elon Musk's SpaceX over nixed Starlink deal
Ontario ministers defended keeping secret the province’s payout to Elon Musk’s SpaceX over a cancelled Starlink contract, as critics accused the government of obfuscation during the recent release of its latest financial statements.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 12h
⚡️Update: Russia attacks Kyiv for over 20 hours in single day. Air raid sirens blared over Kyiv for 20 hours and 44 minutes on Sept. 30, one of the longest sustained attacks the capital has faced since the start of the full-scale war.
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Russia pounds Kyiv's power grid in first mass assault since last fall, killing 4, injuring 8 in day-long assault
Air raid sirens blared over Kyiv for over 20 hours on Sept. 30, one of the longest sustained attacks the capital has faced since the start of the full-scale war.
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Melissa Bowman @dtkmelissa.bsky.social · 12h
"The ultra-wealthy used to build libraries. Now they shred them as they undo the democratic project we’ve been working on in one form or another since antiquity." -David Moscrop www.davidmoscrop.com/p/the-case-a...
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The Case Against Billionaires
You can have an ultra-wealthy class or you can have democracy. You can’t have both. Choose...wisely.
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 11h
On Tuesday the BC Supreme Court vacated the convictions of the co-founders of DULF, which bought and sold clean illegal drugs on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, and struck down a part of Canada's drug laws. None of it was ideal, but in this crisis, it was to the good. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Bruce Arthur: B.C. court right to absolve founders of Drug User Liberation Front
The B.C. Supreme Court concluded that DULF kept people alive and did no public harm, Bruce Arthur writes.
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CNN @cnn.com · 11h
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announced a new Pentagon autonomous warfare command in a speech to troops at a Virginia military base, where he also repeated a number of his past criticisms of military culture. cnn.it/4hvLMDJ
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11h
Will it actually make any difference if Democrats take control of Congress after the midterms? Historian and expert on authoritarianism Timothy Snyder shares his thoughts.
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 20h
TABUK, Saudi Arabia -- A passenger on a rerouted FlyDubai flight that was bound for Tel Aviv said one of the pilots tried to crash the plane and kill everyone on board, after both pilots were found to be wounded on landing in Saudi Arabia. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
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Passenger on rerouted FlyDubai flight says pilot tried to crash plane
A passenger on a rerouted FlyDubai flight that was bound for Tel Aviv said one of the pilots tried to crash the plane and kill everyone on board, after both pilots were found to be wounded on landing ...
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 20h
Archaeologist and cultural adviser Brandy George is working with First Nations to help them find and reclaim the sacred artifacts, belongings and remains of ancestors that were stolen from them.
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Thousands of Indigenous remains and artifacts are in Canadian museums, schools and homes. This archeologist wants them back
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André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 20h
AI fabrication suspected of writing dozens of articles in Canadian publications. Someone calling themselves Daniel Robson has been pitching stories to a variety of print and digital outlets, by Paul Waldie, @tomcardoso.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl... via @theglobeandmail.com
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AI fabrication suspected of writing dozens of articles in Canadian publications
Someone calling themselves Daniel Robson has been pitching stories to a variety of print and digital outlets
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 22h
1/ A few weeks after sacred relics of St. Dmitry Donskoy were 'rediscovered' and paraded in occupied regions of Ukraine to boost Russian troops' morale, the Russian Army has reportedly lost them. This comes just over 4 years after the Russian Navy lost the True Cross of Jesus. ⬇️
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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 21h
Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy says Stelco didn’t apply for any provincial tariff relief before laying off hundreds of workers, a decision the head of a steelworkers union called shocking.
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Stelco didn’t apply for Ontario tariff aid before laying off up to 500 workers, says finance minister
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Waterloo Region Record @therecord.com · 21h
Barry Appleton is a Waterloo Region scholar who will take on a role as Captain Canuck in a New York City courtroom Wednesday to explain why he feels certain tariffs imposed on Canadian exports by U.S. President Donald Trump are unlawful. www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
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https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/tariffs-and-trump-and-appleton/article_b7248324-3c7f-571d-b344-464f6b3d9945.html
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 23h
EXCLUSIVE: Candidate countries will be offered unprecedented “gradual integration” into the EU’s single market, according to a draft European Commission proposal. But the benefits could be taken away if non-members backslide on democracy, the plan says. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/ursu...
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 22h
#Netherlands developing high-energy laser weapon to counter drone swarms—setting a goal to turn the current prototype into a fully operational military air defense system. english.nv.ua/nation/dutch...
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Netherlands developing high-energy laser weapon to counter drone swarms
The Netherlands is partnering with Australian defense technology company Electro Optic Systems (EOS) to develop a high-energy laser weapon designed to destroy drones and counter large-scale aerial att...
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Waterloo Region Record @therecord.com · 22h
The City of Cambridge and the developer have reached a settlement regarding the proposed development at 32, 36 and 38 Grand Ave., which the Ontario Land Tribunal will consider on Oct. 27. www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
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Grand Avenue development reduced from 28 to 22 storeys
Project has been before the OLT since September 2025.
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CTV News Kitchener @ctvnewskitchener.bsky.social · 22h
Mother speaks out after video shows fight at London school - A London mother says her two children were assaulted during recess at C.C. Carrothers Public School and is raising concerns about what she describes as ongoing bullying.
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Mother speaks out after video shows fight at London school
A London mother says her two children were assaulted during recess at C.C. Carrothers Public School and is raising concerns about what she describes as ongoing bullying.
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Darlene Jacques @darj9.bsky.social · 21h
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 'It's filling up my spirit': the search continues for residential school students who didn't make it home None of the search results at former residential schools in northern Ontario have been made public yet
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'It's filling up my spirit': the search continues for residential school students who didn't make it home | CBC News
Efforts to find unmarked graves at former residential schools in northern Ontario have been picking up in recent months. In the Chapleau area, ground-penetrating radar, drones and dogs trained to smel...
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Darlene Jacques @darj9.bsky.social · 21h
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Manitoba's purchase of site of unmarked residential school graves a historic moment: Sioux Valley chief Site that became campground contains remains of children who attended Brandon Residential School
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Manitoba's purchase of site of unmarked residential school graves a historic moment: Sioux Valley chief | CBC News
A First Nation community in southwestern Manitoba will be responsible for guiding decisions around the future of a Brandon campground that historical records indicate holds the graves of children who ...
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Darlene Jacques @darj9.bsky.social · 21h
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Northern Manitoba college offers new Cree-language degree program Students will study Ininimowin dialects native to The Pas, Thompson
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Northern Man. college begins degree program in Ininimowin | CBC News
A first-of-its-kind program will see University College of the North offer students the ability to earn a bachelor's degree in the Cree language. The college will offer one-, two- and three-year progr...
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Darlene Jacques @darj9.bsky.social · 21h
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Alberta independence campaigners go for soft sell, even if they want a hard exit Pro-separation organizers argue referendum vote is just about 'leverage' with Ottawa. Is that convincing?
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ANALYSIS | Alberta independence campaigners go for soft sell, even if they want a hard exit | CBC News
Pro-separation organizers argue referendum vote is just about 'leverage' with Ottawa. Are voters convinced by that pitch?
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Darlene Jacques @darj9.bsky.social · 21h
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... 'Real reconciliation': Medicine trail partners Mi’kmaw communities, N.S. landowners Trail is working with 9 landowners to secure sites to harvest medicinal plants
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'Real reconciliation': Medicine trail partners Mi’kmaw communities, N.S. landowners | CBC News
Trail is working with nine landowners to secure sites to harvest medicinal plants
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Darlene Jacques @darj9.bsky.social · 21h
www.cbc.ca/news/politic... G20 trade ministers are meeting in Wisconsin. Many will be discussing deals without their U.S. host Canada aims to advance its diversification strategy, while Americans will push for WTO changes
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G20 trade ministers are meeting in Wisconsin. Many will be discussing deals without their U.S. host | CBC News
Most of the officials attending the G20 trade ministers' meeting in Milwaukee, Wisc., find themselves in challenging positions, largely because of U.S. President Donald Trump's global tariff agenda. I...
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Darlene Jacques @darj9.bsky.social · 21h
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Almost 40K residential school records will be destroyed. Not all survivors think they should be 'That's my story,' survivor who testified as part of settlement process says
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Almost 40K residential school records will be destroyed. Not all survivors think they should be | CBC News
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 2017 that the almost 38,000 records of residential school testimony collected through the IAP will be destroyed in 2027, unless individual survivors request their ...
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Despite hosting the World Cup, travel to the U.S. was DOWN this summer. We're on pace for overseas visitors to drop by 2 million from last year — down 20% from our '19 peak “We're the only major country in the world losing visitation, he told me. It's mind-boggling” www.axios.com/2026/09/28/u...
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Axios C-Suite: Even the World Cup couldn't stop America's tourism slide
"It's mind-boggling."
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Incidentally, nobody is going to pay for this pipeline other than Ontario. Nobody wants to turn Line 5 into a stranded asset.
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Doug Ford says Ontario taxpayers will invest in proposed pipeline from Alberta to Sarnia
A Liberal MPP on Tuesday compared the project to the Ontario premier's proposal for a tunnel under Highway 401.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/09/2026
Tern turnaround: colonies in England show signs of recovery after decline
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Tern turnaround: colonies in England show signs of recovery after decline
National Trust says latest figures encouraging – with numbers of birds on the rise – but work still to be done England’s most important tern colonies are showing signs of recovery after being hit by years of bird flu, flooding and increasingly unpredictable weather, new figures from the National Trust reveal. The trust reported record numbers of little terns at Long Nanny in Northumberland, one of the UK’s most important breeding sites for what is the country’s second-rarest breeding seabird. Continue reading...
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 30/09/2026
State Department employees were falsely accused of "censoring" Americans. When do they get justice? thehill.com/opinion/nati...
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We need accountability for federal employee purges made on false pretenses
I was grilling chicken on a sweltering summer night in the Washington, D.C. suburbs, when I peeked at my phone and saw that a senior official in the administration had just accused me of lying to C…
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Unofficial CP24 Mirror @cp24-mirror.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump launched a ‘damn good’ AI chatbot. It debunks many of his false claims
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Trump launched a ‘damn good’ AI chatbot. It debunks many of his false claims
U.S. President Donald Trump launched a new artificial intelligence chatbot on Tuesday, calling it “damn good.” Turns out that one of the things it’s reasonably good at is debunking Trump’s own lies.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/09/2026
World’s seas heated by a record 23 zettajoules last year
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World’s seas heated by a record 23 zettajoules last year
The injection of thermal energy, 40 times that used by humanity in total, comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification A record-breaking 23 zettajoules of heat was sunk into the world’s seas last year, leaving ocean waters hotter, higher and less hospitable, a report has found. The explosive addition of thermal energy, which was almost 40 times greater than all the energy humanity used that year, comes amid far-reaching changes to the deep water bodies fundamental to life on Earth. Continue reading...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/09/2026
Half a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says government
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Half a million trees to be planted in England in three years, says government
Exclusive: Environment secretary Angela Eagle to make pledge as part of efforts to protect against extreme weather Half a million trees will be planted across England in the next three years to protect against extreme weather, the environment secretary, Angela Eagle, will pledge on Wednesday morning. Mayors, local authorities, charities and grassroots groups will be given new funding and responsibilities for restoring natural landscapes such as wetlands, river edges and meadows, which can provide natural flood management and reduce the damage done by droughts. Continue reading...
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
1/ Ukraine's drone strike campaign has been partly responsible for cutting Russia's oil and gas revenues by 18%, leading to a shortfall of 1.6 trillion rubles ($19 billion) in the Russian treasury. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/noel...
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 30/09/2026
Unveiled in March, the EU’s Industrial Accelerator Act aims to steer public spending toward European companies. Six months on, the difficulty of translating that ambition into workable law is becoming clear.
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5 battles that will decide EU’s ‘Made in Europe’ push
Europe wants to favor domestic industry. Defining what counts as European — and who should bear the cost — is much harder.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 30/09/2026
Russian strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure caused new power outages in Kyiv and the Kyiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv and Sumy regions, Ukrenergo says. Emergency restoration work has begun wherever security conditions allow. #Ukraine
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CNN @cnn.com · 30/09/2026
Nearly 93% of known plastic chemicals used to wrap food and make clothes, toys, and other common household and personal care products pose a high risk to human health, according to a new investigation provided exclusively to CNN. cnn.it/46TldUc
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The Moscow Times @themoscowtimes.com · 30/09/2026
The government repeatedly imposed curbs on gasoline and diesel exports to rein in rising fuel prices and tackle shortages triggered by Ukrainian drone attacks on oil refineries.
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Russia Extends Diesel Export Ban Until End of October - The Moscow Times
Russia has extended its ban on diesel exports for fuel producers until Oct. 31, the government said on Wednesday, adding further strain to a global energy market already rattled by the wars in Ukraine...
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The Globe and Mail @theglobeandmail.com · 30/09/2026
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CAQ Leader Christine Fréchette’s fresh start withers in the end
François Legault’s successor tried to set herself apart, and it seemed to be paying off. But she and the Coalition Avenir Québec are now fighting for survival in Monday’s election
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Unofficial CTV News Mirror @ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
‘Created in Canada’: How a leading cosmetics brand leans into its roots
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‘Created in Canada’: How a leading cosmetics brand leans into its roots
U.S. tariffs have reshaped Canadian consumer habits, including a dose of patriotism at the cosmetics counter, according to Groupe Marcelle.
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The Independent @the-independent.com · 30/09/2026
Burnham has just delivered the most revolutionary vision of any PM since Thatcher
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Burnham has just delivered the most revolutionary vision of any PM since Thatcher
When Andy Burnham said he wanted to tear up the last 40 years of political consensus he meant it, says political editor David Maddox
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Unofficial CTV News Mirror @ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mark Carney is banking on economic reconciliation but critics say he's not on track
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Mark Carney is banking on economic reconciliation but critics say he's not on track
When Wilton Littlechild was co-chairing the landmark Truth and Reconciliation Commission more than a decade ago, he thought a lot about the idea of economic reconciliation and how it could help transform Indigenous communities.
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