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Politics

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  Labour Day train delay isolated incident, Via Rail CEO tells MPs

  The head of Via Rail repeatedly told MPs a train delay over the Labour Day long weekend was an isolated incident, despite a similar event two years ago.

• Tensions flare between Poilievre and Singh in the House after NDP says it will back Trudeau Liberals

  Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh got into a heated exchange in the House of Commons on Thursday, just minutes after Singh announced his party would not be supporting the Conservatives' first non-confidence motion against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government.

• PM Trudeau names Anita Anand transport minister after Pablo Rodriguez quits cabinet

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tapped Treasury Board President Anita Anand to take on additional duties as Canada's minister of transport on Thursday.

Health

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  Ontario minister and ex-CFL player Neil Lumsden will donate his brain for concussion research

  Ontario’s Minister of Sport, Neil Lumsden, will donate his brain to research.

• Manitobans are getting another reminder of how long wait times are for diagnostic images.

• A gold mining town in Congo has become an mpox hot spot as a new strain spreads

  A new strain of the virus is spreading, largely through skin-to-skin contact, including but not limited to sex. A lack of funds, vaccines and information is making it difficult to stem the spread, according to alarmed disease experts.

Sci-Tech

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  Boeing Starliner astronauts are unexpectedly spending Election Day in space. Here's how they will cast votes

  Thanks to a special Texas law, NASA's Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, the two veteran astronauts, will still be able to perform their civic duty, voting absentee from low-Earth orbit for the U.S. election in November.

• Lebanon bans pagers, walkie-talkies from flights

  Lebanese authorities on Thursday banned walkie-talkies and pagers from being taken on flights from Beirut airport, the National News Agency reported, after thousands of such devices exploded during a deadly attack on Hezbollah this week.

• NASA replicates Mars 'spiders' in lab in groundbreaking experiment

  NASA scientists have successfully replicated spider-like shapes found on the surface of Mars in a laboratory setting for the first time.

Entertainment

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  Lawyers representing the producers of 'Russians at War' say they may pursue legal action against Ontario's public broadcaster for pulling support for the controversial documentary amid outcry from the Ukrainian community and some Canadian politicians.

• Viewers of Jeopardy got a chance to test their knowledge of trivia about B.C.'s biggest city Wednesday night.

• Florence Pugh says her body 'went into a bit of trauma' after shaving her head for movie role

  British actress Florence Pugh has revealed that shaving her head for her latest movie role was a 'really bizarre' experience that sent her body 'into a bit of trauma.'

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  B.C.'s police watchdog is investigating the death of a woman who was shot by the RCMP after allegedly barricading herself in a room with a toddler early Thursday morning.

• Since she was a young girl growing up in Vancouver, Ginny Lam says her mom Yat Hei Law made it very clear she favoured her son William, because he was her male heir.

• The 'Namgis First Nation says a fish farm it owns near Port McNeill shows the potential of land-based aquaculture in B.C.

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  Toronto police are asking for the public's help in identifying one of the suspected shooters in Tuesday's fatal double shooting in North York.

• A pedestrian has been seriously injured after being struck by a vehicle in North York.

• Students across York Region will once again see uniformed officers at school, however police and board officials say they will only be stopping by for the occasional safety presentation.

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  We've produced a special webcast edition of CTV News Calgary for Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024.

• The Parole Board of Canada says a man who assaulted a young pregnant woman and left her for dead remains too dangerous to be released into the community.

• A Vulcan, Alta., man has been charged with a Lethbridge woman's murder after her body was found in the Oyen area.

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  Police say a man who was taken to hospital in critical condition after being shot Thursday night has died.

• A byelection was called for the Bay of Quinte riding less than a week after Progressive Conservative MPP Todd Smith, Ontario's education minister at the time, resigned his seat in August.

• CTVNewsOttawa.ca looks at things to do in Ottawa and eastern Ontario this weekend.

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  Quebec Premier Francois Legault is calling on the Bloc Quebecois to topple the Trudeau government next Wednesday and trigger a federal election.

• A harrowing video has been presented to a jury at the trial of three men facing first-degree murder charges.

• The province's public security minister said he was "shocked" Thursday amid reports that a body believed to be that of a 14-year-old boy was found this week near a Hells Angels hideout near Quebec City.

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  Five bison are dead at Elk Island National Park east of Edmonton following an early Thursday morning collision.

• An Edmonton man who is charged with sexually assaulting a teen boy is a member of the Alberta sheriffs, CTV News Edmonton has confirmed.

• The mayor of Fort Saskatchewan apologized on Thursday for comments she made earlier this week about killing feral cats.

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  New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs has called for a provincial election. Voters will go to the polls on Oct. 21, as prescribed by the province's fixed-date election law.

• Police are asking people to avoid the Dartmouth Commons area in Dartmouth, N.S., as they assist with a wildlife call for a bear.

• An 83-year-old man is facing sexual interference charges following a Nova Scotia RCMP investigation.

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  Manitobans are continuing to mop up after a deluge of rain hit southern Manitoba earlier in the week.

• Shamattawa RCMP are searching for a missing six-year-old boy who hasn’t been seen since Wednesday morning.

• A Winnipeg pet rescue is putting out a warning to dog owners across the city about a possible parvovirus in the province.

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  A social media post of purple apples “growing” in Saskatchewan has sparked a lot of attention. However, garden experts say there's no such thing.

• A case involving stolen funds from a Saskatchewan business being used to purchase cryptocurrency will be heading back to the courts, thanks to a new decision by Saskatchewan's Court of Appeal.

• Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) has confirmed a tornado touched down Wednesday evening near Langbank, Sask.

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  Amber and Adam Brueckner have a pool-shaped hole in their backyard – and their wallets.

• New details have been shared about a missing family that was last seen on Sept. 1 in Kitchener, Ont.

• Police are trying to identify a man who approached a woman and child in Wellesley.

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  A gym teacher at a private Christian school in Saskatoon has been charged. Terra MacEwan, 44, is charged with assault with a weapon. A Saskatoon mother who spoke with CTV News says her autistic son was MacEwan's victim.

• Thomas Hamp says he believed secret police were out to kidnap, torture, and kill him when he fatally stabbed his girlfriend Emily Sanche in February of 2022.

• A social media post of purple apples “growing” in Saskatchewan has sparked a lot of attention. However, garden experts say there's no such thing.

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  They say a dog is a man’s best friend. In the case of Darren Cropper, from Bonfield, Ont., his three-year-old Siberian husky and golden retriever mix named Bear literally saved his life.

• As northern Ontario gets ready to welcome autumn this weekend, it’s still feeling a lot like summer as provincial forest fire crews continue to battle blazes.

• James Bay Ontario Provincial Police have charged four commercial vehicle drivers with impaired, including one who was hauling 36,000 kilograms of ammonia hydrate.

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  A Woodstock homeowner says she’s at her wit’s end over a homeless encampment situated alongside her backyard. She’s calling on the city to do more to help those living rough, so she can live in peace.

• Police were focusing their attention on the northeast corner of Richmond and Horton, with members of the emergency response unit taking up positions at the scene.

• A union representative says someone driving a pick-up truck with heavily tinted windows rammed a member on Western Road, near Elborn College.

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  Two men from Barrie have been charged after a deadly shooting at a park in Keswick on Wednesday.

• A growing group of brides and wedding photographers from across the province say they have been taken for tens of thousands of dollars by a Barrie, Ont. wedding photographer.

• A 32-year-old man is facing charges after police say his vehicle struck a child in an Owen Sound intersection.

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  The Windsor Police Service (WPS) has seized over $56,000 in drugs and have arrested one suspect.

• SERVEONE Canada, a global procurement solution company, has begun Canadian operations in Tecumseh.

• Enrolment may be down at St. Clair College, but President Mike Silvaggi isn’t bothered.

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  In a rare move, the Greater Victoria School District Board of Education has been slapped with a ministerial order from the province requiring it to update a student safety plan – drawing concern around political posturing leading up to an election.

• The Union of B.C. Municipalities is asking the provincial government to make transit free for teenagers.

• To appreciate why Mimi Vandermolen is so pleased to notice one particular vehicle she’s walking past, you need to know that seeing this many cars in one place would have been unimaginable when she was growing-up in the post-war Netherlands.

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  A pair of runaway pigs are in the custody of an animal sanctuary in the Okanagan after evading police and volunteers for hours earlier this week.

• The Red Bridge, a historic landmark in Kamloops, B.C., was completely destroyed by fire early Thursday morning.

• Animal protection officers in British Columbia have rescued three pit bulls – including one that gave birth to 10 puppies – from a rat-infested home in Kelowna.

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  A Vulcan, Alta., man has been charged with a Lethbridge woman's murder after her body was found in the Oyen area.

• A Lethbridge couple got a good reminder as to why you should keep your vehicle doors locked at all times.

• Lethbridge residents who live near the police range can expect to hear plenty of shots fired Wednesday and Thursday.

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  A new community health profile in the Algoma District shows the area is significantly below provincial averages in a number of health metrics.

• North Bay Police Service says one person has died following an industrial accident at the Ontario Northland Transportation Commission Rail Yard on Tuesday.

• Three northern Ontario residents are charged with drug trafficking after the vehicle they were in got stuck along a bush road off Highway 17 on Monday.

N.L.

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  Newfoundland and Labrador monitoring rise in whooping cough cases: medical officer

  Newfoundland and Labrador's chief medical officer is monitoring the rise of whooping cough infections across the province as cases of the highly contagious disease continue to grow across Canada.

• Dispute over unrecognized Inuit group halts major conference for Canadian North

  A 16-year-old biennial event aimed at fostering business in the country's eastern Arctic and northern regions has been cancelled indefinitely as a dispute unfolds between Inuit in Canada and a Labrador group claiming to share their heritage.

• Cow cuddling: Why a Newfoundland farm is offering quality time with these 'gentle creatures'

  Jim Lester’s farm hopped on the cow-cuddling trend in early August, and his time slots have been pretty well sold out ever since.