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OTTAWA — While Canada remains optimistic that progress is being made in trade talks with the United States, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic Leblanc warned Thursday that Canadians shouldn’t expect trade terms between the two neighbours to revert back to the patterns of recent decades.
“I do believe this is resolvable,” LeBlanc told the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, responding to a question from Nova Scotia’s John McNair. “(But) the relationship with the United States has fundamentally changed and it will not magically go back to what it may have been a...
October 2, 2025 - 15:50 | Simon Tuck | National Post
Nearly 900,000 hectares of forests burned during the peak of British Columbia’s wildfire season this year, making it one of the province’s worst fire years on record. And with more than 100 blazes still burning across the province, the cost of battling wildfires in 2025 is expected to be close to $500-million.
October 2, 2025 - 15:48 | Justine Hunter | The Globe and Mail
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A B.C. man will spend 28 months in prison for the “brutal and prolonged” rape of a woman who will suffer from life-long emotional and physical reminders of the horrific attack.
Brendan William John Sullivan, 29, who pleaded guilty in August, was sentenced in a Chilliwack provincial court room last week on one count of sexual assault against a victim who was 19 at the time.
In his written...
October 2, 2025 - 15:31 | Kenn Oliver | National Post
The Ottawa Senators are in one of the toughest divisions in the National Hockey League. Read More
October 2, 2025 - 15:28 | Bruce Garrioch | Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says if Prime Minister Mark Carney fails to include her new pipeline pitch on his list of nation-building projects within the next seven weeks, she will have to intensify her efforts to build north to south.
“Everybody wants to be Team Canada and find new markets. But if it means, let’s all work together to get our products to market, but not Alberta’s, well, then that would be the pathway I’d have to pursue,” she told National Post in an interview Thursday.
Diversifying Canada’s market access and trading relationships has been a major focus...
October 2, 2025 - 15:26 | Stephanie Taylor | National Post
A fresh look at data collected by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has uncovered more evidence that Saturn’s moon Enceladus may be able to support life, with additional complex organic molecules identified from the geyser-like jets of ice grains that spew into space from this small icy world’s subsurface ocean.Researchers re-examined in great detail data obtained when Cassini conducted its closest flyby of Enceladus in 2008, including when it flew directly through plumes of ice grains and gases erupting from the ice-encrusted moon’s surface through fractures near its south pole. In doing so,...
October 2, 2025 - 15:18 | Will Dunham | The Globe and Mail
