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OTTAWA — The Carney government is proposing to grant the Crown corporation behind the high-speed railway between Toronto and Quebec City sweeping new powers to accelerate the acquisition or expropriation of land for the project.
A new High-Speed Rail Network Act also proposes to exclude the massive railway project from review by the Canadian Transportation Agency by deeming it de facto approved and barring the agency from rescinding the approval.
The proposed act is tucked away in the hundreds of pages of the Liberals’ bill to implement the 2025 budget tabled Tuesday.
The...
November 21, 2025 - 04:00 | Christopher Nardi | National Post
OTTAWA — The federal government’s plans to resume a compensation program for retailers for inventories of formerly legal guns that were subsequently banned by the Liberals have been delayed from this fall until an unspecified date.
The change comes as Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government intends to move ahead with the launch of a national
“buyback” program by the end of the year for individual gun owners...
November 21, 2025 - 04:00 | Stephanie Taylor | National Post
On Thursday afternoon, in the heart of diversity-rich Vanier, the community came together to launch the reimagined Hub — a vibrant outdoor space coming to life in what was once a parking lot. They celebrated — cotton candy and all — on National Child Day, no less. Read More
November 21, 2025 - 04:00 | Gary Dimmock | Ottawa Citizen
After stints working in Ottawa and Toronto, Dr. Emmanuelle Britton returned to her home province of Quebec in 2017 to join a family medicine practice in Wakefield. Read More
November 21, 2025 - 04:00 | Elizabeth Payne | Ottawa Citizen
For the first time, Quebec elementary and secondary school students will be required to read the works of Indigenous authors.
November 21, 2025 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
A growing number of minors are being recruited by adults to carry out smash-and-grab jewelry store robberies in Ontario and are told that if they are caught, as youths, they would face little or no time in custody, an investigation by CBC's the fifth estate has found.
November 21, 2025 - 04:00 | | CBC News - Ottawa
