Source Feed: CBC News - Ottawa
Publication Date: November 16, 2025 - 04:00
Is Quebec serious about climate change? New government bill raises questions
November 16, 2025
A new government bill aimed at reducing bureaucracy and increasing state efficiency could take a bite out of Quebec's ability to fight climate change. Under the proposed legislation, the finance minister will be allowed to divert surpluses from the province's Green Fund to other unrelated government programs.
Timothy Rohan headed out from his home in Holyoke, Mass., eight years ago on an unlikely mission.
The construction worker planned to shoplift supermarket bags of shrimp, then sell the purloined shellfish to bodegas in the city’s gritty downtown. The cash proceeds would feed his desperate need for fentanyl.
The scheme ended abruptly when two police cruisers pulled up beside him, the officers ordering the young man onto the pavement and locking him in handcuffs. A few hours later, guards hauled Rohan from a cell in the local courthouse and brought him before a judge – though he had stolen...
November 16, 2025 - 07:00 | Tom Blackwell | National Post
Kingsville is discontinuing boat rescues to cut costs, prompting concern from safety advocates who say reducing local response capacity puts boaters at risk.
November 16, 2025 - 06:00 | Prisha Dev | Global News - Ottawa
WASHINGTON, D.C. — “Coke is it” was a popular TV ad for the famed soda back in 1982, featuring teens singing Coca-Cola’s praises around a piano. It was around that same time when the company started using high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) instead of cane sugar in their main product — and would soon launch the flop known as “New Coke” — so a better catchphrase might have been, “Which Coke is it?”
Fast forward 43 years, and for U.S. and Canadian consumers of Coke, it’s primarily the fresh taste of HFCS that they’re enjoying, unless they’ve paid a premium for Mexican Coke, which is made with...
November 16, 2025 - 06:00 | Tracy Moran | National Post



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