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Social Studies Grade 11: History of Canada

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A lone red dress symbolizing the cause of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls hangs from a tree on the Skye River Trail on National Indigenous Peoples Day in We'koqma'q First Nation, N.S. on Friday, June 21, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
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Indigenous women’s groups call for funding to limit risks to safety, prosperity

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Indigenous women’s groups call for funding to limit risks to safety, prosperity

Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press 5 minute read Thursday, Apr. 30, 2026

OTTAWA - Advocates are calling for long-term, stable federal funding to safeguard Indigenous women and girls and warning the federal government's major projects push could place them at higher risk.

Hilda Anderson-Pyrz, president of the National Family and Survivors Circle, said groups like hers still don't know if they'll receive continued funding from Ottawa. She said that uncertainty undermines their efforts to address the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls.

"When we're looking at the safety and human security of Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit and gender-diverse people, it's really critical that organizations who are doing this important work — and even through the lens of prevention and economic participation — that they receive long-term, sustainable and equitable funding," she said.

"They're severely underfunded. There's a real power imbalance."

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Thursday, Apr. 30, 2026
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Burdett Sisler, Canada’s oldest known living man, Second World War vet, dead at 110

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Burdett Sisler, Canada’s oldest known living man, Second World War vet, dead at 110

Kathryn Mannie and Aaron Sousa, The Canadian Press 5 minute read Friday, May. 1, 2026

Burdett Sisler, the oldest known living man in Canada and one of the oldest Second World War veterans in the world has died. He was 110.

Sisler’s son Norman says his father died with family members by his side after his health took a turn for the worse in recent weeks.

“It's bittersweet. You don't want to see him go, of course. But he had a long life,” Norman said. “It was a great life.”

A statement from Gov. Gen. Mary Simon's office says she and her husband were saddened to learn of Sisler's death and are sending condolences to his friends and family.

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Friday, May. 1, 2026
A person works on a spreadsheet in a photo illustration made in Toronto on Monday, Sept. 22, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sammy Kogan
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Federal privacy law changes would expand sharing of personal data across government

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Federal privacy law changes would expand sharing of personal data across government

Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Saturday, Apr. 25, 2026

OTTAWA - The Liberal government proposes making it easier for federal agencies to share and reuse the personal data of Canadians through a major overhaul of the Privacy Act.

The act governs how federal agencies collect, use and disclose personal information, and gives people the right to see and correct data about them the government holds. The law has not changed substantially since it took effect in 1983.

In a policy paper issued Thursday, the government says that in most cases, reusing personal data or sharing it with another program for an alternative purpose requires the person's consent or must meet one of the few legal exceptions.

"These rules were designed to protect privacy, but they make it harder to deliver modern, connected services that rely on secure data sharing," the paper says. "The goal is to make it easier for programs to share data responsibly, so Canadians only have to provide information once."

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Saturday, Apr. 25, 2026
Alberta and Canadian flags are seen behind the podium in a media room in Calgary, on Friday, Oct. 17, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Alberta separatists say they’ve collected enough signatures to trigger a referendum

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Alberta separatists say they’ve collected enough signatures to trigger a referendum

Fakiha Baig, The Canadian Press 5 minute read Tuesday, Apr. 28, 2026

EDMONTON - Two Alberta separatists say their group has collected enough signatures from citizens to trigger a referendum on the province quitting Canada.

Mitch Sylvestre says the group – named Stay Free Alberta -- has collected well over the approximate 178,000-signature threshold. And he says volunteers who have been keeping tally as the signatures come in are expecting that number to grow.

"We (have) more than the buffer that's required if they (Elections Alberta) refuse signatures as well," Sylvestre said in a phone interview Tuesday.

They still have another month to go before they must deliver the names to Elections Alberta for verification, but Jeffrey Rath, the general counsel for the group, says they want to announce their success now.

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Tuesday, Apr. 28, 2026
Dominic LeBlanc, minister responsible for Canada-U.S. Trade, Intergovernmental Affairs, Internal Trade and One Canadian Economy speaks after the conclusion of a Committee on Internal Trade meeting in Ottawa, Monday, March 30, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Canada not worried U.S.-Mexico trade talks will upend trilateral deal, LeBlanc says

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Canada not worried U.S.-Mexico trade talks will upend trilateral deal, LeBlanc says

Catherine Morrison and Sarah Ritchie, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Friday, May. 1, 2026

OTTAWA - Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said on Monday he isn't worried Mexico will sign a trade agreement with the Americans that excludes Canada.

LeBlanc told reporters at a news conference that the Mexicans are also committed to a trilateral deal as the countries work to renew the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade, better known as CUSMA.

"We've also said all along that there will be a bilateral element to these discussions and there will also be a trilateral element," he said.

"The American administration and our government and the Mexicans have also been clear that there are bilateral issues that properly will be worked on together by two countries and it will necessarily form part of the discussion around the trilateral review of CUSMA as well."

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Friday, May. 1, 2026
Air Canada Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft sit parked at Vancouver International Airport, in Richmond, B.C., on Monday, Aug. 18, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Air Canada CEO to step down later this year after backlash over lack of French

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Air Canada CEO to step down later this year after backlash over lack of French

Christopher Reynolds, The Canadian Press 7 minute read Friday, May. 1, 2026

MONTREAL - Air Canada chief executive Michael Rousseau will leave the company later this year after coming under fire last week for his failure to deliver a video condolence message in French following a plane crash that killed two Air Canada Express pilots.

Rousseau has told the board he will step down before October, the airline said Monday. He is expected to continue to lead Canada's largest carrier and serve on its board of directors until they part ways.

The announcement leaves Air Canada scrambling to find a replacement amid the challenge of soaring fuel prices and depressed cross-border travel, and follows a half-decade marked by both COVID-19 hurdles and profit wins under the watch of a CEO known more for his financial finesse than fine-tuned community relations.

Rousseau, 68, was widely criticized for his lack of French in the four-minute condolence video posted online that included only two words in the language — "bonjour" and "merci."

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Friday, May. 1, 2026
A man is silhouetted as buildings cast their shadows in front of the Peace tower on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Liberals dismiss call for law to ensure political fibs and flubs don’t eclipse facts

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Liberals dismiss call for law to ensure political fibs and flubs don’t eclipse facts

Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Friday, May. 1, 2026

OTTAWA - The Liberal government has dismissed a Toronto man's proposal to keep politicians honest in an age of misinformation, saying there are already several ways to fight falsehoods.

Federico Sanchez initiated an electronic petition to the House of Commons to propose legislation that would help correct the record when members of Parliament stray from the truth intentionally or simply because they are ill-informed.

Sanchez said he was "very upset" by the lack of federal interest in his pitch.

"It made me feel like they didn't take it seriously," he said in an interview. "If they don't think that there's a problem, then I think we're going to have a lot worse days ahead."

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Friday, May. 1, 2026
The Bekevar Wind Facility near Kipling, Sask., is pictured in this undated photo. The project was built in November 2024 and received some complaints from community members. Another wind farm, called the Seven Stars Energy Project, is proposed to be built near Weyburn, Sask., and has received intense pushback. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - SaskPower (Mandatory Credit)
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‘Neighbours hating each other’: Proposed Saskatchewan wind farm divides community

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‘Neighbours hating each other’: Proposed Saskatchewan wind farm divides community

Jeremy Simes, The Canadian Press 6 minute read Friday, May. 1, 2026

Don Bourassa says a proposed wind farm near his home in southeast Saskatchewan has ruined relationships in his community — to the point where he feels he has been bullied.

A resident of the Rural Municipality of Weyburn, Bourassa said one of his neighbours approached him about buying his property to keep him quiet on Enbridge's Seven Stars Energy Project.

"He wants me out of there, to shut up," Bourassa said in an interview. "That's bullying and I'm not falling for that.

“It’s neighbours hating each other."

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Friday, May. 1, 2026
Leaders like former AFN chief Phil Fontaine were followed, watched, and documented.(Tijana Martin / The Canadian Press files)

Spying on Indigenous peoples fuels mistrust, threatens Canada’s economy and society

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Spying on Indigenous peoples fuels mistrust, threatens Canada’s economy and society

Niigaan Sinclair 5 minute read Saturday, Mar. 28, 2026

The British Columbia Civil Liberties Association published thousands of pages in 2019 that it had fought for years to be released by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.

The heavily redacted documents, the association said, show Canada’s spy agency spent years illegally conducting surveillance and documenting peaceful Indigenous protesters and community environmental organizations that opposed the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project. They include the Dogwood Initiative, ForestEthics (now Stand.earth), Sierra Club BC, Leadnow.ca, and the #IdleNoMore movement.

This discovery followed a report by two researchers in 2016, who found that from 2014 to 2015, the RCMP operated project SITKA, which involved a list of more than 300 political activists in the country — most of whom were Indigenous — with 89 marked as “threats” to national security.

If this wasn’t enough, access to information requests by activists found that from 2009 to 2011, Gitxsan professor and child advocate Cindy Blackstock was monitored by officials at Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada and the justice department – an act that Canada’s privacy commissioner later called a violation of her privacy rights.

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Saturday, Mar. 28, 2026
A sign directs a voter to a polling station in Calgary on Monday, April 28, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Election bill takes aim at deepfakes, long ballots, threats to nomination contests

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Election bill takes aim at deepfakes, long ballots, threats to nomination contests

Jim Bronskill and Sarah Ritchie, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Wednesday, Apr. 29, 2026

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is proposing new legislation to strengthen election integrity by banning digital deepfakes of candidates, cracking down on unduly long ballots and protecting nomination and leadership contests.

The bill, introduced Thursday, would extend existing election protections beyond the campaign period itself, making them effective year-round.

The government says this would include the extension of rules forbidding foreign people or organizations from improperly influencing someone's vote, as well as bans on offering or accepting bribes to influence a vote.

Government House leader Steven MacKinnon said the changes follow recommendations made by the chief electoral officer, the commissioner of elections and the public inquiry into foreign interference.

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Wednesday, Apr. 29, 2026
Minister of Indigenous Services Mandy Gull-Masty rises during question period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
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Indigenous services minister questioned about fire that killed toddler

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Indigenous services minister questioned about fire that killed toddler

Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press 5 minute read Wednesday, Apr. 29, 2026

OTTAWA - First Nations chiefs from northern Ontario demanded answers Thursday from Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty after they linked the death of a three-year-old boy to a lack of federal funding for fire services in their communities.

On Monday, a house fire in a northwestern Ontario community took the life of Chief Donny Morris's three-year-old grandson and left two others with serious injuries.

The Independent First Nations Alliance, a group of five First Nations that includes Morris's own community of Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug, filed a Canadian Human Rights Commission complaint in August 2025 alleging Indigenous Services Canada was systemically discriminating against their communities by underfunding on-reserve fire services.

Chief Carla Duncan of Muskrat Dam Lake First Nation — a member community of that alliance — told Gull-Masty during a Nishnawbe Aski Nation meeting in Toronto Thursday the community is still searching for the child's remains.

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Wednesday, Apr. 29, 2026
An Air Canada Express jet taxis past the wreckage of an Air Canada Express jet, Wednesday, March 25, 2026, as maintenance crews prepare to move the plane from the runway where it had collided with a Port Authority fire truck Sunday night at LaGuardia Airport, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Air Canada CEO apologizes for inability to express himself adequately in French

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Air Canada CEO apologizes for inability to express himself adequately in French

The Canadian Press 3 minute read Wednesday, Apr. 29, 2026

MONTREAL - The chief executive of Air Canada has apologized for not being able to express himself adequately in French after releasing a video message of condolence on the deadly plane crash in New York on Sunday.

Michael Rousseau has been criticized for the four-minute video posted online that only included two French words — "bonjour" and "merci."

"I am deeply saddened that my inability to speak French has diverted attention from the profound grief of the families and the great resilience of Air Canada’s employees," he said in a statement Thursday.

"Despite many lessons over several years, unfortunately, I am still unable to express myself adequately in French. I sincerely apologize for this, but I am continuing my efforts to improve."

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Wednesday, Apr. 29, 2026
SUPPLIED Pte. Albert Henry Detmold died at the Battle of Hill 70 in France in 1917.
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First World War soldier’s remains traced to Manitoba

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First World War soldier’s remains traced to Manitoba

Kevin Rollason 6 minute read Tuesday, Mar. 24, 2026

More than a century after he was killed by an enemy shell during the First World War in France, the remains of Roblin-area farmer Albert (Bert) Henry Detmold have been identified.

The 33-year-old private, who served with the 107th Overseas Battalion, was killed while digging a trench on the first day of the Battle of Hill 70 on Aug. 15, 1917.

Despite the efforts of the surviving members of the unit to find the dead and wounded, in the midst of enemy attacks that involved mustard gas, Detmold’s remains could not be found.

It wasn’t until August 2020 that a construction crew, doing excavation of a site intended for a new hospital, discovered his remains.

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Tuesday, Mar. 24, 2026
People congregate outside the Supreme Court of Canada as the court hears appeals regarding Quebec’s secularism law (Bill 21) in Ottawa on Monday, March 23, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
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Lawyers for Quebec government tell Supreme Court that Bill 21 is legitimate

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Lawyers for Quebec government tell Supreme Court that Bill 21 is legitimate

The Canadian Press 4 minute read Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2026

OTTAWA - The Quebec government is urging the Supreme Court of Canada to uphold a controversial secularism law, arguing that the Constitution allows the province to override the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

The case revolves around the law, adopted in 2019, that banned some public sector workers from wearing religious symbols on the job, including judges, police officers and teachers.

Quebec pre-emptively used its powers to override the Charter when it adopted the law, and the court challenge could have implications for how other provinces handle similar cases.

The federal and provincial governments can override the Charter if they invoke what is known as the notwithstanding clause of the Constitution.

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Wednesday, Mar. 25, 2026
Capital Pride Parade attendees representing the Ottawa Carleton District School Board (OCDSB) hold a large rainbow flag near Parliament Hill during the Capital Pride Parade in Ottawa, on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
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Pride festivals seek federal $3M as corporations pull back support amid DEI backlash

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Pride festivals seek federal $3M as corporations pull back support amid DEI backlash

Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Friday, Apr. 24, 2026

OTTAWA - Pride festivals are seeking $3 million annually from Ottawa to fill a funding gap left by corporations pulling back funding amid a backlash to diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

"We are seeing corporate sponsors pull back their investment into Pride. This can be for a multitude of reasons — DEI pullbacks, the tariffs," said Joseph Hoang, a director with Vancouver Pride.

"They are not coming to the table at the level that they used to be. This is why we are asking the federal government for this new funding."

He was speaking Tuesday on Parliament Hill, joined by other executives who are seeking $9 million over three years to help 200 festivals maintain their operations. They are asking for funding to pay artists and logistics costs, separate from rising security expenditures.

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Friday, Apr. 24, 2026
File photo — A photographer walks through the room ahead of the Liberal leadership announcement, Sunday, March 9, 2025 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Liberals to debate age restrictions on social media, AI chatbots

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Liberals to debate age restrictions on social media, AI chatbots

Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press 5 minute read Friday, Apr. 24, 2026

OTTAWA - Age restrictions on using social media accounts and AI chatbots are among the topics up for debate when Liberal party grassroots gather next month for their national convention.

There are 24 different policy resolutions that are on the agenda when party rank-and-file meet in Montreal for their convention April 9 through 11.

Two of them try to tackle ongoing concerns about the impact of social media and artificial intelligence on children and youth.

One resolution from Quebec calls for anyone under the age of 16 to be banned from accessing "all AI chatbots and other potentially harmful forms of AI interaction," such as ChatGPT.

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Friday, Apr. 24, 2026
The Supreme Court of Canada is shown in Ottawa, on Friday, March 13, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Quebec’s Bill 21 lands in the Supreme Court, with notwithstanding clause in spotlight

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Quebec’s Bill 21 lands in the Supreme Court, with notwithstanding clause in spotlight

Pierre Saint-Arnaud, The Canadian Press 6 minute read Tuesday, Mar. 24, 2026

MONTREAL - A legal challenge to Quebec's secularism law, known as Bill 21, will be heard at the Supreme Court of Canada beginning Monday, and legal experts say whatever the eventual ruling, it will have a profound effect on constitutional law in Canada.

The highly anticipated high court challenge to Bill 21 has been years in the making, but legal debate is likely to focus primarily on Section 33 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the provision known as the “notwithstanding clause," which shields legislation from most court challenges over violations of fundamental rights.

François Legault’s Coalition Avenir Québec government pre-emptively invoked the provision into the law passed in June 2019.

The Quebec law, known as Act respecting the laicity of the state, sets out the principles of secularism in the province. Among its most controversial measures is the prohibition of civil servants who are considered in positions of power — such as police officers, teachers and judges — from wearing religious symbols at work.

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Tuesday, Mar. 24, 2026
Andrea Davis, left, the executive director of the Black Loyalist Heritage Centre, and Sheila Hartley-Scott, president of the Black Loyalist Heritage Society's volunteer board are shown at the Nova Scotia Archives in Halifax on Saturday, March 21, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Lyndsay Armstrong
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Maritime historical groups earn UNESCO recognition for Black Loyalist archive

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Maritime historical groups earn UNESCO recognition for Black Loyalist archive

Lyndsay Armstrong, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Friday, Apr. 24, 2026

HALIFAX - Detailed ledgers, business receipts and church records from Black Loyalists in the 1780s and onward are more than just rich historical texts to Andrea Davis.

“This is a part of my history… it means so much to us as a community,” she said in an interview Saturday.

Davis is an eighth generation descendant of Black people who left the United States for Nova Scotia at the end of the American Revolution, siding with the British. The Black Loyalists were offered land, protection and freedom, but they were not given the rations, assistance or fertile land they were promised.

“My ancestors, they are a group of people that were not meant to survive, but they did. And so to be here to represent the Black Loyalists and my ancestors is extremely rewarding,” she said.

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Friday, Apr. 24, 2026
Mikaela MacKenzie / Free Press Files Premier Wab Kinew on the legislation to create the Manitoba Crown-Indigenous Corp.: “I think it’s most important that we get it right rather than trying to rush it.”

Province still working on Crown corporation legislation to get Port of Churchill expansion going, Kinew says

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Province still working on Crown corporation legislation to get Port of Churchill expansion going, Kinew says

Carol Sanders 4 minute read Friday, Apr. 10, 2026

Legislation needed to begin the work of turning the Port of Churchill into a national export hub with the potential to transform Manitoba’s economy is still being hammered out, says Premier Wab Kinew.

The act, to create the Manitoba Crown-Indigenous Corp., is still being written, which meant it was not among the more than 40 bills introduced by the NDP before Wednesday’s deadline for passage before the legislative session’s summer recess.

The government promised the legislation in November’s throne speech.

“The corporation has been set up,” the premier said Thursday at an unrelated event.

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Friday, Apr. 10, 2026
Glen Simard, the minister responsible for francophone affairs (Abiola Odutola / The Brandon Sun files)

‘Give ourselves the means to achieve our ambitions’: province gets feedback on French plan

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‘Give ourselves the means to achieve our ambitions’: province gets feedback on French plan

Nicole Buffie 4 minute read Friday, Mar. 20, 2026

Hiring more bilingual employees for the province’s public service, providing more services in French and making the history of the Francophonie a part of school curriculum could help make Manitoba a “truly” bilingual province.

That was the consensus from a survey taken by Manitobans aimed at shaping the NDP government’s francophone strategy. The results of the survey, which polled 1,600 Manitobans, was released Friday with a timeline for the government’s planned strategy.

Asked what a “truly bilingual province” means to them, 50 per cent of respondents answered “services.”

Bilingualism in the classroom was the top priority among respondents, followed by bilingualism in the health-care and social services systems and government bilingualism.

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Friday, Mar. 20, 2026
joe raedle / getty images FILE A Canadian flag flies next to the American one at the Lewiston-Queenston border crossing bridge connecting Ontario and New York. A Canadian flag flies next to the American one at the Lewiston-Queenston border crossing bridge on Feb. 4, 2025, in Niagara Falls, Canada. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images/TNS)

More than 20 per cent of Manitobans think the U.S. could invade Canada in the next two years, poll conducted for the Free Press reveals

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More than 20 per cent of Manitobans think the U.S. could invade Canada in the next two years, poll conducted for the Free Press reveals

Tyler Searle 6 minute read Friday, Mar. 20, 2026

It has been more than two centuries since American troops crossed the international border in 1812 and invaded what was then the British colony of Canada — but that feeling of everlasting peace is fading.

Against the backdrop of the U.S. war with Iran, its forced removal of Venezuela’s president and President Donald Trump’s musing about annexing Greenland and making Canada the 51st state, some Manitobans are beginning to fear the spectre of armed conflict between this country and its neighbour to the south.

More than one out of five Manitobans believe an American invasion of Canada is possible in the next two years, according to a new Probe Research poll commissioned by the Free Press. Of those, 18 per cent of respondents said the prospect was somewhat likely, and four per cent felt it was very likely.

“The idea of the U.S. invading, for a long time, seemed preposterous. This certainly isn’t a question that we would’ve expected to ask people even a couple of years ago, but we wanted to understand with all of the things that have been happening in the last few months… if this is something that people think is a possibility,” said Curtis Brown, principal of Probe Research.

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Friday, Mar. 20, 2026
The Meta logo is seen at the Vivatech show in Paris, France on Wednesday, June 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
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Local TV stations ask regulator to force Meta to pay for posting some news content

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Local TV stations ask regulator to force Meta to pay for posting some news content

Anja Karadeglija, The Canadian Press 3 minute read Friday, Apr. 24, 2026

OTTAWA - Some local and independent TV stations are asking the federal broadcast regulator to start a process to force Meta to pay for allowing some news content on Facebook and Instagram.

They say that despite Meta’s move in 2023 to pull news from its platforms in response to the Online News Act, some content remains available.

The Online News Act requires Meta and Google to compensate media outlets for displaying their content. While Meta pulled news from its platforms in response and has not been required to pay news outlets, Google has been making payments under the act.

In a submission to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, the stations cite examples of online posts that included news content, such as text and screenshots of stories and video clips.

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Friday, Apr. 24, 2026
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is joined by local members of Parliament Harb Gill, obscured, and Chris Lewis during a press conference outside the Windsor Club in Windsor, Ont., on Friday, March 13, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dax Melmer

Poilievre pitches Canadian kindness on ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ podcast

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Poilievre pitches Canadian kindness on ‘The Joe Rogan Experience’ podcast

David Baxter and Sarah Ritchie, The Canadian Press 6 minute read Friday, Mar. 20, 2026

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre laughed off a conspiracy theory about Justin Trudeau in the opening minutes of his 2.5-hour sit-down with podcaster Joe Rogan, where he made a case for Canadians being America's nice-guy neighbours.

While talking about his early interest in politics, Poilievre mentioned that he read a biography of Fidel Castro.

"Justin's dad!" Rogan interjected.

The Conservative leader shook his head and laughed, "No, no, not Justin's dad," adding later that it's "a hell of a (conspiracy theory). I don't think it's a true one though."

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Friday, Mar. 20, 2026
Local youth skate with a large Canadian flag on the Rideau Canal to launch celebrations for the 60th Anniversary of the National Flag of Canada Day, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025 in Ottawa. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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Canada drops down to 25th place in world happiness rankings: report

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Canada drops down to 25th place in world happiness rankings: report

Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press 3 minute read Friday, Apr. 24, 2026

TORONTO - Canada's happiness ranking slipped again last year, continuing a decade-long trend that's seen the country plummet from the 5th happiest in the world in 2014 to 25th in 2026.

The annual World Happiness Report from the Wellbeing Research Centre at the University of Oxford looked at how social media use might be affecting happiness on a population level, and found in some cases it was having an impact.

"There's probably no simple explanation as to why Canadians' view of happiness has been dropping. What this report suggests is that social media could be one part of this puzzle, but it doesn't seem like it's the full picture," said Felix Cheung, a happiness researcher at the University of Toronto, who reviewed two chapters in the report but did not write it.

Between 2023 and 2025, the timeframe the researchers used for this report, Canadians' life evaluations averaged at 6.741 out of 10. In Finland, the happiest country in the world for nine years running, the average was 7.764.

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Friday, Apr. 24, 2026