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[published_date] It's been seven years since Edmontonians last lined the city's downtown streets to celebrate with a Pride parade, and organizers say it's back. 2SLGBTQ+ community members and allies are set to turn out for the Saturday afternoon parade. Considered part of the biggest Pride event on the Prairies, the parade was cancelled in 2019…

[published_date] A grieving father from a northern Manitoba First Nation says he spent days phoning officials and filing paperwork before he was allowed to take the remains of his son back to his evacuated home community for burial. But even after fighting to get that approval, Andrew Colomb says he had less than three hours to fly and boat…

[published_date] Inevitably, but torturously, this unique moment in the history of this country has come to be understood primarily in hockey terms. "His elbows have mysteriously gone missing," Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said of Prime Minister Mark Carney on Friday. "He's not thrown one elbow since he took office." A few hours earlier, a reporter…

[published_date] Air Canada passengers whose travel plans were disrupted during the recent strike by flight attendants are set to get some relief for their out-of-pocket expenses. On Thursday, Air Canada announced it will cover "reasonable" expenses for hotels, meals and transport costs incurred by passengers who endured flight delays and cancellations between Aug. 15 and Aug. 23.  "We deeply apologize," Air…

[published_date] Like a 21st-century space race, the world's biggest economic powers are staking their claim in a little-known type of digital currency that could revolutionize — or severely disrupt — the way people, companies and countries exchange money. Stablecoins are a type of cryptocurrency pegged to a country's national currency, or to commodities like gold. The idea is that…

[published_date] Saskatchewan is forecasting a $349-million deficit in the first quarter of 2025-2026. The figure is a significant drop from the slim, $12.1-million surplus the province projected as part of the 2025-2026 budget. On Friday, Finance Minister Jim Reiter was unconcerned about the new figures as he spoke with media. "It's a $21-billion budget. So percentage wise, it's…

[published_date] Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says he leaves for China in two weeks to talk trade as his province grapples with punishing tariffs on canola. Moe's office says the six-day trip, starting Sept. 6, will be the first time in six years that a Canadian premier has led a trade mission to China. Moe has…

[published_date] Talks to explore a sustainable year-round shipping season at Canada's northernmost, deepwater port are set to get underway, following an agreement between the port's ownership group and a Montreal-based dry bulk shipping company. The Port of Churchill in northern Manitoba, which has a brief operational window each summer, is owned and operated by Arctic Gateway Group, a partnership…

[published_date] He won over 3,000 career races, but Ron Turcotte will forever be remembered for the three he registered aboard the legendary Secretariat 52 years ago. Turcotte guided Secretariat to an emphatic American Triple Crown sweep in 1973. So dominant was that performance that Secretariat still holds the records he set that year in the…

[published_date] Newly released court documents are shedding fresh light on the search for two missing Nova Scotia children and how police subsequently combed through bank records, phone data and GPS information to track the movements of their mother and stepfather leading up to their disappearance in May. The redacted records, which were released at the request of…

[published_date] British Columbia fishing guide Dean Werk says he was getting calls last week from keen anglers wondering if this would be their year. "Do you think there's going to be a salmon opening, Dean?" Now they have the answer. Amid bumper returns of millions of prized sockeye salmon, Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) issued…

[published_date] A man who avoided Canadian authorities for more than nine months after being accused of driving a semi-trailer truck through a stop sign, causing a crash that killed a Manitoba mother and daughter, was arrested at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on Thursday.   Navjeet Singh, 25, had been wanted since November for two counts of…