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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
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Carney announces $1.2 billion for oceans ahead of expected pipeline decision
The major projects will mean there are more ships on the water and more pressure on habitats, 'so we must scale up our systems to protect marine life in the event that something goes wrong,' Carney said.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
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Carney says he has no plans to apply further trade pressure as US midterms approach
Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday he has no plans to apply new trade pressure on the U.S. as Americans prepare for crucial midterm elections that could end Republican control of Congress.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
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Saskatchewan to pursue two large nuclear reactors: premier
Scott Moe said Tuesday his government is looking at building the reactors somewhere in the province's northwest — and the first could be online in 2042.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
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Medical professionals urge Ford to reconsider Toronto bike lane removal
More than 600 healthcare workers have signed an open letter demanding the Ontario premier stop his plan to remove three major bike lanes in Toronto.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
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LNG Canada export expansion project gets green light amid economic and climate warnings
The $33-billion project to double processing capacity at the Shell-led BC terminal would generate economic development thousands of construction jobs. But analysts and sustainability campaigners warn of problematic financial and environmental question marks.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
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Toronto: Chow promises $5.6M for seniors as Bradford says he will cut land transfer tax
Chow said 28,000 seniors would be supported by the measures, with 5,000 gaining access to free home support.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
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Brad Bradford owes us an apology
Given the opportunity to take responsibility for a blunder, Bradford instead channeled his inner Rob Ford, the city’s late, headline-generating, controversial mayor — and attacked the messenger.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
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LNG Canada to go ahead with Phase 2 expansion project in Kitimat
The project will double LNG Canada's capacity to 28 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas a year. It is one of five initial projects referred to Ottawa's major projects office last year.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
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Carney in Vancouver for announcements on energy and ocean protection
Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Vancouver today, where he's set to make a major announcement related to the energy industry.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
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Carney's moves on labour and environment could create an opening for political opponents
The Liberals may be riding high in the polls now, but their opponents say Prime Minister Mark Carney's strategy for boosting growth offers them unexpected opportunities for political gain.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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Minister won't commit to criminalizing residential school denialism
Roseanne Casimir, chief of Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, said on Sunday a group of masked individuals dropped a banner from an overpass in Kamloops, BC. The banner appeared to be questioning reports of human burials at the former sites of residential schools.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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Trump says he expects Canada trade deal within weeks as import ban looms
Just hours before import bans on certain Canadian goods were set to take effect, U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he thinks he can make a trade deal with Canada in the coming weeks. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump said he thinks the Canadian side will contact him in the next three or four weeks and the United States will "win everything."
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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Doug Ford says he'll spend public money on east-west oil pipeline
Ontario’s premier sees no reason why it should take more than four years to build a 3,300 kilometre pipeline between Alberta and his province. “We just believe that it can get done,” he said.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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Bradford vows to slash water bills; Chow and Alexander say it's a bad plan
Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford has committed to reducing Torontonians’ water bills by 25 per cent if elected.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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Bradford calls CNO reporting of AI app rewards ‘inaccurate.’ Here’s the recording proving our reporting.
Canada’s National Observer has decided to publish the segment of the Zoom call that corroborates its reporting.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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Poilievre urges tax cuts to make diesel fuel more affordable and ensure future supplies
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is pitching a plan to cut federal taxes on diesel fuel and help ensure Canada has affordable supplies of the fuel in the future.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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Premiers keep cards close on constitutional changes pitched in Alberta referendum
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's counterparts across the country are keeping their cards close to their chest on where they stand on the major constitutional reforms Smith is sending to a provincewide vote next month.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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Alberta, Ontario premiers are set to share stage in Calgary to talk energy policy
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Ontario Premier Doug Ford are set to share the stage in Calgary today to talk energy.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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BC election campaigns enter its second week with candidate, policy announcements
The campaigns for the upcoming British Columbia election enter their second week, with major parties gearing up policy announcements and candidate nominations.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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Quebec election campaign enters its final week as voters start to cast early ballots
The Quebec election campaign is entering its final stretch.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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Anand hosts conference today on returning Ukrainian children from Russian abduction
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is co-hosting a global meeting in Toronto today aimed at advancing work to return Ukrainian children abducted by Russian officials.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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Toronto mayoral candidate Bradford’s campaign appears to have breached its own privacy policy
Its campaign tool, called the Victory App, was the subject of a CNO investigation last week for its use of AI to locate online discussions about Bradford. But another aspect of the app also raises questions: specifically, its lack of safeguards for voter data.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
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Starter Pack: Climate Change
It doesn't cause every wildfire, flood or storm. But a warmer climate can make some events more likely — and more damaging when they happen.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
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CSIS contacted as US interference claims swirl in Quebec election
Allegations of political interference from the United States dominated the 30th day of Quebec's election campaign on Friday as Coalition Avenir Québec Leader Christine Fréchette expressed concerns that Americans were trying to help sovereignists take control of the province.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
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BC attorney general seeks Criminal Code change after Tumbler Ridge AI chat report
Niki Sharma said Friday that she had not received a response because of the “rapidly evolving” situation, but the changes need to "ensure a clearer pathway for human and corporate accountability for the actions of AI."
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
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Support for Alberta’s UCP weakens ahead of October referendum
Support for the UCP has dropped to 41 per cent — the same as the NDP — as the party wrestles with its increasingly unpopular separatist stance.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
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Labour bill will test limits of Ottawa's power to quash strikes, say experts
Labour experts say the Liberal government's latest major legislative push will test the limits of Ottawa's power to intervene in collective bargaining when economic interests are at stake.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
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Quebec party leaders wrapping up another week of the election campaign
Quebec political party leaders are out campaigning on the 30th day of the provincial election campaign.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
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Europe uses subsidies, taxes and policy pauses to offset the pain of high fuel prices
Wars in the Middle East and Ukraine are driving governments across Europe to craft subsidies, taxes and policy revisions that might shield their economies, companies and increasingly aggrieved citizens from record gasoline and diesel prices.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
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Report on Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT conversations shocks BC's attorney general
British Columbia's attorney general says she's shocked by an article describing alleged interactions between the Tumbler Ridge mass shooter and ChatGPT, in which the AI chatbot vividly describes the effectiveness of a shotgun in a classroom.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
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Defence minister downplays the PM's comments on prospect of US military action
A day after Prime Minister Mark Carney told a US media outlet his government has studied the possibility of US-led military action in Canada, Defence Minister David McGuinty said all militaries consider such risks.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
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NDP's David Eby says some Conservatives want BC to be an 'American protectorate'
New Democrat Leader David Eby says some members of the British Columbia Conservative Opposition have a vision of BC as a protectorate of the United States, and the party's leader isn't doing enough to rein them in.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
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Netanyahu crosses Canadian airspace with an arrest warrant in effect
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu travelled through Canadian airspace on Thursday, despite facing an international arrest warrant.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
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Nepal's leader, at UN, says recent floods should serve as a 'warning to the world' about climate change
Nepal's prime minister scolded fellow world leaders on Thursday, saying the nation's recent deadly flood reminds a warming world that climate change keeps hurting people who didn't cause the crisis but now need help.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
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Citizens must stand firm against new group touting mass deportation, supremacy of ‘Heritage Canadians’
Free speech? Sure. People are free to put up posters on utility poles expressing their views and promoting their causes — and other people offended by the vile messaging and the polarizing mission behind it are free to remove them in response.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
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US diplomats ordered to say ‘super intelligence’ - not ‘artificial intelligence' - after Trump's call
The State Department is ordering diplomats in its international organizations bureau to use the term “super intelligence” instead of “artificial intelligence” in all communications following President Donald Trump’s attempt to rebrand the technology in his address to the U.N. General Assembly this week.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
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Former candidate asks Conservatives to 'plug' their noses and accept their leader
A former British Columbia Conservative candidate has urged members of the party to "plug" their noses and accept Lorne Doerkson as their permanent leader if he's successful in the province's snap election on Oct. 24 and build from there.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
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'God cleaned the slate': Ashes pave road to recovery after BC wildfires
Joel Patan says his "life is ashes" now, as he sifts the ruins of his home that was incinerated last month, along with most structures in the small community of Faulder outside Summerland, BC.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
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Vietnam's leader To Lam visits Ottawa as Carney pushes to deepen ties with middle powers
Vietnam's most powerful politician is in Ottawa for a state visit Thursday aimed at deepening trade and diplomatic ties as middle powers confront American and Chinese coercion.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
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More than two in three Canadians back EU associate membership, says poll
Canadians overwhelmingly support Canada becoming an associate member of the European Union, a new poll suggests — even though the details of that arrangement haven't been finalized.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
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AFN regional chiefs to represent First Nations at meeting with Carney and premiers
Assembly of First Nations regional chiefs will join premiers and Prime Minister Mark Carney for a rare meeting in late October — the first such meeting between chiefs and first ministers in decades.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
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Employer groups encouraged by Ottawa's labour law changes, but some want even bigger steps
Employer groups say Ottawa's proposed labour law changes are encouraging but some want the Liberal government to go even further to ensure industrial peace.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
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Five takeaways from the final debate of Quebec election campaign
After being greeted by a raucous crowd of supporters and protesters, the leaders of Quebec's five major political parties dove into their third and final debate of the election campaign, hosted by Radio-Canada on Wednesday evening.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
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How lower taxes could increase revenue in Quebec
Several parties currently campaigning in Quebec are promising to reduce the tax burden on businesses, with some claiming the loss of revenue would be offset by increased economic activity resulting from the cuts.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
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Carney's sweeping new bill sparks backlash over environmental rollbacks
The Liberal government’s proposed Building Canada Strong Act is facing pushback from political, environmental and labour groups. The bill aims to amend several laws to fast-track projects deemed in 'the national interest.'
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
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AI's dangers 'real and imminent,' Canadian AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio tells UN
Canadian AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio and the heads of two major American AI companies pleaded with the United Nations on Wednesday to set controls on the burgeoning technology. Bengio told the UN Security Council Wednesday that AI poses an "unprecedented threat."
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
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Toronto mayoral candidates debate housing, transit and data centres
Incumbent Mayor Olivia Chow defended her record on housing and fiscal policy against challenger Brad Bradford, while Chris Alexander questioned Bradford on potential privatization plans.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
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No, cyborg propaganda is not 'inevitable.' None of this is.
After Rory White revealed a Toronto mayoral campaign is putting AI-written comments in its supporters' mouths, political insiders were quick to dismiss it as run-of-the-mill politicking. So why does it make everyone else want to throw up?
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
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Labour law changes would bring 'sunlight' to collective bargaining, says jobs minister
Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says the Liberals' proposed changes to the Canada Labour Code would bring some much-needed "sunlight" to collective bargaining in federally regulated sectors.
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Canada's National Observer: Climate News @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy · 23/09/2026
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Health minister says she has ruled out looser regulations on nicotine pouches
Federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel says she's not considering changes to regulations that restrict the sale of nicotine pouches, while tobacco control groups say the government needs to do more to tamp out the illicit market.
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