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Jews this week will be celebrating Sukkot, a seven-day holiday intended as a time of joy

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Sukkot, a week-long Jewish holiday celebrating the traditional gathering of the harvest, starts at sundown Monday and continues through Monday, Oct. 13.

Sukkot is considered one of the most joyful festivals on the Jewish calendar — distinctive in that it explicitly encourages Jews to rejoice and discourages public mourning.

Descriptions of these holy days are available here from two of the major branches of U.S. Judaism:

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Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week

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Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week

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TORONTO - Five things to watch for in the Canadian business world in the coming week:

Carney in Washington

Prime Minister Mark Carney will head to Washington this week to meet with U.S. President Donald Trump. Carney is planning to travel to the U.S. capital on Monday before meeting with Trump on Tuesday. The two countries launched consultations last month ahead of the upcoming review of the trade agreement between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.  

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Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump engage in a meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 6, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump engage in a meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 6, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

NEW YORK (AP) — Chicken product maker Foster Poultry Farms is recalling more than 3.8 million pounds of chicken corn dog products after wood was found in the batter, resulting in injuries.

According to a notice posted Saturday on the Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service site, the company, based in Livingston, California, received numerous complaints about finding wood in the batter of the products, including reports of at least five injuries.

The chicken corn dog products were made between July 30, 2024, and Aug. 4, 2025, and sold under a variety of names, including Chicken Corn Dogs Batter Wrapped Chicken Frankfurters on a Stick, Corn Dogs Chicken Franks Dipped in Honey Batter, and other names. All names and labels of the contaminated products can be found on the FSIS site. The products subject to recall have the number “P-6137B” printed either inside the USDA mark of inspection or printed on the packaging.

Consumers and institutions who purchased these products should not consume them. They should be thrown away or returned to the place of purchase.

Quebec law to promote the sustainability of goods come into force

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Quebec law to promote the sustainability of goods come into force

Sidhartha Banerjee, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Updated: 4:46 PM CDT

MONTREAL - A new Quebec law came into effect Sunday aimed at protecting consumers against products intentionally designed with shorter lifespans while ensuring they have the information needed to repair and maintain goods they buy.

Quebec's so-called "right-to-repair" law, part of the province's amendments to its consumer protection law, will require retailers and manufacturers to disclose whether replacement parts and repair services are available and maintenance information is made clear ahead of a sale.

The provisions were passed unanimously by the provincial legislature on Oct. 3, 2023, as part of an act to protect consumers against planned obsolescence -- the deliberate shortening of the lifespan of a product -- and to promote durability, repairability and maintenance of goods.

While Quebec's existing laws, since 1978, required retailers and manufacturers to make information on replacement parts and repair services available, now consumers will have information to fix items themselves.

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Ovens are on display at a Lowe's store in Atlanta. Photo AP archives/David Goldman

Ovens are on display at a Lowe's store in Atlanta. Photo AP archives/David Goldman

AI helps Ont. researcher discover breakthrough antibiotic treatment for bowel disease

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AI helps Ont. researcher discover breakthrough antibiotic treatment for bowel disease

Emily Baron Cadloff, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Updated: 3:27 PM CDT

HAMILTON - Jon Stokes’s research lab has discovered what could be a breakthrough treatment for Crohn’s and inflammatory bowel disease in about 100 seconds. 

Rather, his AI sequencing tool discovered it in 100 seconds. Then, as Stokes said, his team spent about six months testing the results to confirm they were true. 

Still that’s six months of testing, rather than years. And only $60,000, rather than millions. 

As far as new drug discoveries go, Stokes said this use case of AI could be a game changer for Canadian patients. 

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McMaster University researcher Jon Stokes, right, and graduate student Denise Catacutan are seen at the Centre for Microbial Chemical Biology, a core lab at McMaster's Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, in this undated handout photo, in Hamilton, Ont. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Blake Dillon, McMaster University (Mandatory Credit)

McMaster University researcher Jon Stokes, right, and graduate student Denise Catacutan are seen at the Centre for Microbial Chemical Biology, a core lab at McMaster's Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, in this undated handout photo, in Hamilton, Ont. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Blake Dillon, McMaster University (Mandatory Credit)

Chloe says it with printed flowers in Paris show

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Chloe says it with printed flowers in Paris show

Thomas Adamson, The Associated Press 2 minute read Updated: 4:58 PM CDT

PARIS (AP) — Chemena Kamali said it with flower prints. A good old-style collection that set a few themes on the table and spent the rest of the Paris Fashion Week Sunday show refining them — proof that focus can still feel new.

Kamali, now in her third stint at Chloé, knows the house from the inside. German-born like Karl Lagerfeld, she worked here under both Phoebe Philo and Clare Waight Keller before returning as creative director last year.

Chloé was founded in 1952 by Gaby Aghion and is widely credited with inventing Parisian ready-to-wear — a freer, more feminine alternative to couture. Kamali’s vision taps that core: the romantic lightness and movement Aghion set in motion; Lagerfeld’s ’70s capes and lace; the 2000s “Chloé girl” ease; flashes of Stella McCartney’s wit. The project remains clothes by women, for women — “intuitive” dressing that evolves like life itself.

Prints, pastels and fabulous dropped hems

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A model wears a creation as part of the Chloe Spring/Summer 2026 collection presented in Paris, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

A model wears a creation as part of the Chloe Spring/Summer 2026 collection presented in Paris, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Gaza flotilla activists allege mistreatment while being detained in Israel

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Gaza flotilla activists allege mistreatment while being detained in Israel

Veronica Andrea Sauchelli And Andrew Wilks, The Associated Press 4 minute read Updated: 11:13 AM CDT

ROME (AP) — Some of the activists detained while trying to reach Gaza by sea have returned to their home countries to describe mistreatment at the hands of Israeli guards, claims that Israel denies.

Some 450 activists were arrested as Israeli forces intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla, a fleet of 42 boats seeking to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza and deliver a symbolic amount of aid to the famine-stricken territory. Those detained between Wednesday and Friday were brought to Israel, where many remain in prison.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said it offered voluntary deportation to all of the activists and those that remain in detention chose to stay there in order to go through a legal deportation process.

On his return at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport late Saturday, Italian journalist Saverio Tommasi said Israeli soldiers withheld medicines and treated prisoners “like monkeys.”

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This combination of images released by the Israeli Foreign Ministry shows Greta Thunberg, second from right, with other flotilla activists after the Israeli navy intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. (Israeli Foreign Ministry via AP)

This combination of images released by the Israeli Foreign Ministry shows Greta Thunberg, second from right, with other flotilla activists after the Israeli navy intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2025. (Israeli Foreign Ministry via AP)

Typhoon Matmo strengthens, prompting China to evacuate 347,000 people ahead of landfall

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Typhoon Matmo strengthens, prompting China to evacuate 347,000 people ahead of landfall

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BANGKOK (AP) — Typhoon Matmo strengthened ahead of making landfall Sunday in China, prompting the government to evacuate some 347,000 people from the southern provinces of Guangdong and Hainan.

The typhoon had maximum sustained wind speeds of 151 kph (94 mph) on Sunday morning, according to China’s National Meteorological Center. It hit Zhanjiang in Guangdong around mid-afternoon Sunday. The weather authority issued a red-level typhoon warning, the highest in its system.

Hainan, which is also in the pathway of the storm, canceled flights and shut down public transport and businesses starting Saturday in preparation for the storm. The province also preemptively evacuated 197,856 people, according to state media, The Paper.

Matmo directly hit the southwestern parts of Guangdong, where 151,000 people evacuated, The Paper reported. Meanwhile, local media aired footage showing large waves washing seawater onto roads in villages by the coast in Guangdong's Zhanjiang.

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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, strong waves are seen ahead of Typhoon Matmo near the coastal downtown area of Haikou, in southern China's Hainan Province on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. (Guo Cheng/Xinhua via AP)

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, strong waves are seen ahead of Typhoon Matmo near the coastal downtown area of Haikou, in southern China's Hainan Province on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. (Guo Cheng/Xinhua via AP)

Hurricane Priscilla forms in the Pacific Ocean off the southwestern coast of Mexico

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Hurricane Priscilla forms in the Pacific Ocean off the southwestern coast of Mexico

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MIAMI (AP) — Hurricane Priscilla has formed in the Pacific Ocean off the southwestern coast of Mexico, with heavy rain and gusty winds affecting coastal areas.

The Miami-based National Hurricane Center said Sunday that Priscilla’s maximum sustained winds were 75 mph (120 kph) and that the storm was located about 285 miles (460 kilometers) south-southwest of Cabo Corrientes. It was headed north-northwest at 3 mph (6 kph).

The center says heavy rainfall and gusty winds are affecting coastal southwestern Mexico with flash flooding possible. Swells generated by Priscilla are affecting parts of the coast in the region and will reach some coastal areas in southwestern and western Mexico and southern Baja California by Monday. The swells are expected to create life-threatening surf and rip currents.

A tropical storm watch was issued for part of the coast of southwestern Mexico, from Punta San Telmo to Punta Mita, with tropical storm conditions in the area Sunday and Monday. Rainfall of up to 6 inches (15 centimeters) was possible in areas of the states of Guerrero, Michoacán, Colima and Jalisco.

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This NOAA satellite image taken at 5:20 p.m. EST on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025, shows Tropical Storm Priscilla in the East Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico. (NOAA via AP)

This NOAA satellite image taken at 5:20 p.m. EST on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025, shows Tropical Storm Priscilla in the East Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico. (NOAA via AP)

Celine’s Rider finds his thread in Paris with flower power and foulards

Thomas Adamson, The Associated Press 2 minute read Updated: 8:05 AM CDT

PARIS (AP) — Michael Rider’s second collection for Celine, shown Sunday in the Parc de Saint-Cloud, confirmed that his reset of the house is less rupture than weaving together its many pasts.

Where his July debut toyed with former Celine designer Phoebe Philo’s minimalism and Hedi Slimane’s bourgeois tailoring, at Paris Fashion Week Rider took a single motif — the foulard — and spun it into the season’s grammar.

Scarves were no longer accessories. They became structure: stitched into long, fluid dresses as if pieced from a dozen vintage squares; reshaped as silky tops; or peeking from the lining of an otherwise plain trench. Even handbags carried scarf fragments as decoration.

Around that anchor, Rider played with contrasts. Seventies flower power re-emerged in psychedelic A-line minis with clean silhouettes, their retro exuberance tempered by modern restraint. Oversize men’s suiting — black, double-breasted, cut with assurance — grounded the collection in sharp tailoring. A maxi skirt, buttoned and unbuttoned to reveal another layer beneath, nodded to both history and invention, elegant and forward at once.

Western Canada Marine Response Corporation exercised off Vancouver Island last month

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Western Canada Marine Response Corporation exercised off Vancouver Island last month

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VICTORIA - Engineer Jashan Bains is the first to spot a black dorsal fin cutting through the water.

"Whale, one o'clock," he says.

It's a September morning on board the Hecate Sentinel, a 20-metre long skimming vessel, one of eight ships the Western Canada Marine Response Corp. maintains in Sidney, B.C., and one of eight bases along the B.C. coast. 

Captain Dylan Adams, safety co-ordinator Lauren Walker and the rest of the bridge crew turned to see a second, then a third fin appear. They belong to a trio of killer whales. 

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Crew prepare to deploy an offshore containment boom while aboard the skimming vessel the Hecate Sentinel during a Western Canada Marine Response Corporation joint training exercise off the coast Moresby Island, B.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

Crew prepare to deploy an offshore containment boom while aboard the skimming vessel the Hecate Sentinel during a Western Canada Marine Response Corporation joint training exercise off the coast Moresby Island, B.C., on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

‘Listen’: Winnipeg care home residents offer advice on love, life, moose hunting

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‘Listen’: Winnipeg care home residents offer advice on love, life, moose hunting

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WINNIPEG - Press 0 to hear Cheryl's advice about being true to yourself. For Randy's perspective on growing in new ways, press 3.

To hear moose calls and Maurice's wisdom on hunting, press 6. 

This is how callers are greeted when they dial into the life advice line at Misericordia Place.

The project, launched last month at the Winnipeg-based personal care home, features 10 recorded messages from residents.

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Cheryl Towers, a resident at Misericordia Place Personal Care Home, talks to artists Francesca Carella Arfinengo and Toby Gillies about her art in her care home room in Winnipeg, on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods

Cheryl Towers, a resident at Misericordia Place Personal Care Home, talks to artists Francesca Carella Arfinengo and Toby Gillies about her art in her care home room in Winnipeg, on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025.  THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods

Alessandro Michele’s Valentino collection puts 70s silhouettes in the Paris spotlight

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Alessandro Michele’s Valentino collection puts 70s silhouettes in the Paris spotlight

Thomas Adamson, The Associated Press 3 minute read Updated: 12:43 PM CDT

PARIS (AP) — Against strobe lights that suggested seedy allure more than spectacle, Alessandro Michele's Valentino collection Sunday showed restraint where once there was riot. Prim ’70s silhouettes — bows, ruching, velvet skirts — set a mood at Paris Fashion Week of controlled nostalgia.

The high point was a draped gold gown with a feathered white collar, evoking myth and Valentino’s Roman past. A polka-dot shirt, satin skirts split with bright yellow panels, and occasional colorblocking kept the eclectic spirit alive, though without the exuberant force Michele has deployed before.

That was the story of the show: less spectacle, more editing. Where Michele’s early collections for the house, and his Gucci tenure before that, thrived on sheer overload — tassels, turbans, ruffles, references piled high — here he cut cleaner lines and pared styling back. The result felt more wearable, but also less astonishing.

A storied past

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Models wear creations as part of the Valentino Spring/Summer 2026 collection presented in Paris, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

Models wear creations as part of the Valentino Spring/Summer 2026 collection presented in Paris, Sunday, Oct. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

CFIA confirms death of ostrich with ‘pre-existing condition’ at B.C. farm

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CFIA confirms death of ostrich with ‘pre-existing condition’ at B.C. farm

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EDGEWOOD, B.C. - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says an ostrich that was part of a B.C. flock that was recently issued a last-minute stay of a cull order by the Supreme Court of Canada has died. 

The agency says the bird at Universal Ostrich Farm in Edgewood, B.C., had a previous injury and a pre-existing condition that impacted its left leg and mobility, and was being treated by the owners for some time. 

It says the bird's health "significantly declined" over a two-day period before dying Saturday. 

Farm spokeswoman Katie Pasitney posted a video to Facebook also confirming the news of the death before she accused the CFIA of animal cruelty, saying they had been "dumping the electrolytes out."

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Karen Espersen, centre, the co-owner of Universal Ostrich Farms, speaks with supporters with her daughter, Katie Pasitney, at the farm in Edgewood, B.C., on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, as the Canadian Food Agency prepares to cull 400 of the farm’s ostriches this week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Hemens

Karen Espersen, centre, the co-owner of Universal Ostrich Farms, speaks with supporters with her daughter, Katie Pasitney, at the farm in Edgewood, B.C., on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025, as the Canadian Food Agency prepares to cull 400 of the farm’s ostriches this week. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Aaron Hemens

Montrealers gather to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls

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Montrealers gather to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls

Miriam Lafontaine, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Updated: 8:30 AM CDT

MONTREAL - Shirley Pien spends a lot of time in Cabot Square, a park in downtown Montreal where many homeless people gather. 

The woman works as health navigator for an Indigenous-led health clinic in the city and makes it a priority to come to gathering spot on weekly basis. It's a site many missing Indigenous women she knows used to frequent — until they disappeared.

"In the last few months, there's women we used to see regularly that we don't see anymore. Nobody knows where they are," said Pien, who hails from Naskapi Nation in northern Quebec. 

She was among many that turned out to the march held in Montreal on Saturday in recognition of the overrepresentation of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in the country.

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The Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal in partnership with Southern Quebec Inuit Association (SQIA) March for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Trans and Two-Spirit People in Montreal, on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Peter McCabe

The Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal in partnership with Southern Quebec Inuit Association (SQIA) March for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, Trans and Two-Spirit People in Montreal, on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Peter McCabe

Doctor staffing shortage in Delta Hospital emergency room leads to temporary closure

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Doctor staffing shortage in Delta Hospital emergency room leads to temporary closure

The Canadian Press 2 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 7:34 PM CDT

DELTA - Fraser Health is warning that the emergency room at the Delta Hospital will temporarily close for more than 12 hours this weekend due to a doctor staffing shortage.

It says in a news release that the interruption will begin at 6 p.m. Saturday to ensure that all patients already in the emergency room can been seen by a physician before they end their shift at 1:30 a.m.

It says that emergency-trained nurses will remain on site during the interruption to help walk-in patients with basic care and to help redirect or transfer patients to neighbouring hospitals.

Fraser Health says in a news release that the disruption will end at 6 a.m. on Sunday and only impacts the emergency department, and all other services at the hospital will remain available overnight. 

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Ambulances are seen parked at the central reporting station in Victoria, on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

Ambulances are seen parked at the central reporting station in Victoria, on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

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