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OTTAWA — When Mark Carney was first campaigning for the job of Liberal leader and, ultimately, prime minister, he cast himself as a political outsider.
After winning the job, Carney recruited another political outsider to join his ranks: Energy Minister Tim Hodgson.
Hodgson and Carney go way back. The prime minister tapped Hodgson to serve as his special advisor when he was appointed governor of the Bank of Canada. A former investment banker, Hodgson joined the Liberals as a political newbie and was soon handed the file of natural resources. It comes at a time when the prime...
October 29, 2025 - 04:00 | Stephanie Taylor | National Post
A basketball packed with contraband, drug packets camouflaged to blend in with the environment, cellphones the size of your thumb: These are just some of the items smugglers are sneaking into prisons in Kingston, Ont., with the help of drones. A special task force is trying to stop them.
October 29, 2025 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Canada
A Montreal doctor convicted of sexual assault — and accused of sexually assaulting another seven women — attempted to shield his assets from his victims before dying by suicide, according to two lawsuits.
October 29, 2025 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Canada
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is embarking on a mass campaign of inspections after last year’s deadly listeria outbreak in plant-based milks, and will examine more than 2,400 food-production facilities that are licensed to operate but have not yet been inspected. The blitz, which the CFIA is calling the largest co-ordinated inspection effort ever undertaken in the manufactured-food sector, comes after an outbreak at a facility in Pickering, Ont., that killed three people in the summer of 2024, and sickened dozens more. The factory was never scrutinized for listeria protocols...
October 29, 2025 - 04:00 | Grant Robertson, Kathryn Blaze Baum | The Globe and Mail
Eight days before his death, L.L. was checked by his family doctor in Burlington, Ont. The 12-year-old weighed less than he did when he was six years old and had stopped growing, but the doctor didn’t send him to hospital.
October 29, 2025 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
A joint task force in Kingston has been targeting drones delivering contraband into prisons.
October 29, 2025 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
