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The Beaches will receive 2025 Billboard Canada Women of the Year honour

[published_date] Montreal pop singer Charlotte Cardin won Billboard Canada's inaugural Woman of the Year Award in 2024, and she has just announced Toronto rock band the Beaches as this year's winner. While Billboard has held its Women in Music event annually since 2007, Billboard Canada launched its Toronto event last year and honourees included Alanis Morissette, Jully…

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‘Queen of Canada’ arrested on livestream after RCMP deploy to village where cult has lived for 2 years

[published_date] RCMP officers have arrested Romana Didulo, the leader of a cult that has been living in a Saskatchewan village for two years, according to a livestream posted by Didulo on Wednesday morning. The video, shared to Didulo's followers on Telegram at 5:51 a.m. CST on Wednesday, shows two officers wearing tactical gear burst into a room…

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Death of 7-year-old Granby, Que., girl a ‘particularly heinous tragedy,’ coroner says

[published_date] WARNING: This story contains graphic descriptions of a child's death.  A coroner looking into the death of a seven-year-old girl in Granby, Que., has concluded that the youth protection system as well as the school and health-care networks failed to protect her and by working in silos, everyone involved was ''forgetting the most important person.''…

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France to Scotland to Romania all in a week’s work for Canadian soccer player Derek Cornelius

[published_date] Chris Jones is in Bucharest with Canada's men's soccer team ahead of Friday's game vs. Romania as it continues preparations for next year's FIFA World Cup. Derek Cornelius knew he was in Bucharest. How he got there, exactly, took some remembering. The end of Europe's summer transfer period ran hard against the opening of FIFA's September window for…

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Google can keep Chrome but needs to give up some data, judge rules in antitrust case

[published_date] A federal judge on Tuesday ordered a shakeup of Google's search engine in an attempt to curb the power of an illegal monopoly, but spared it from orders to break up the company and other restraints. The 226-page decision made by U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington, D.C., will likely ripple across the technological landscape…

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Halifax mayor under investigation for allegedly breaching municipal code of conduct

[published_date] The mayor of Halifax is being investigated for possibly breaking the city's code of conduct, after an independent consultant decided complaints he had misled the public about governance at city hall had merit. On July 22, Mayor Andy Fillmore told CBC's Maritime Noon he would welcome so-called "strong mayor powers" if granted by the province. Fillmore…

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Back to school looks different for displaced families, communities hit by Sask. wildfires

[published_date] Creighton Community School would typically expect close to 200 students from Denare Beach to make the daily trip for classes in the border town, but this year is different. Some of those Denare Beach students are returning after their family homes were destroyed when a wildfire tore through the northern village earlier this summer.…

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Parts shortages, snarled supply chains are sidelining Canadian vehicles and troops in Latvia: documents

[published_date] Prime Minister Mark Carney recently walked a gauntlet of parked military gear while visiting Canadian and allied troops in Latvia. All of it was spit and polish, some draped in camouflage and looking showroom ready, if not somewhat menacing. It was an impressive, seemingly substantive, display of combat power. If only he'd known what…

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