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Teck's $20B Frontier oilsands project heads to joint review hearing
If it's true that the era of mega oilsands projects is coming to an end, one proposed project stands as an outlier. On the heels of the grand opening this month of Suncor's $17-billion Fort Hills facility, another proposed mega-mine promises to employ thousands, invest billions and challenge prevailing views that the big mine is dead. Teck Resources Ltd.'s Frontier mine project undergoes its first day of public hearings in Fort McMurray on Tuesday before a joint review panel established by the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency and the Alberta Energy Regulator.
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Canada's capital region reeling after intense tornado rips through communities
Parts of Canada's national capital were still reeling Saturday after a powerful tornado carved paths of destruction through residential neighbourhoods — snapping huge trees, tossing cars and obliterating homes along its way. The tornado inflicted heavy damage late Friday as it churned across pockets of Ottawa's west and south ends, as well as densely populated sections of the neighbouring Quebec city of Gatineau. Hydro Ottawa CEO Bryce Conrad compared the magnitude of the damage to the power grid to the debilitating ice storm of 1998.
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Corporate welfare, the Koch brothers and being 'authentic': Maxime Bernier in conversation
Maxime Bernier is hoping his new People's Party will usher in a conservative revolution in Canada. For years, Bernier has been championing the cause of smaller government, lower taxes and reduced immigration — but now the Quebec MP who finished a close second to Andrew Scheer in the last Conservative Party leadership race thinks these ideas can win the next Canadian election. A recent Nanos survey found that 17 per cent of Canadians would be open to supporting Bernier's new party, something he credits to his principled policies.
NewsReutersIsrael sets October deadline to evacuate Bedouin village in West Bank
KHAN AL-AHMAR, West Bank (Reuters) - Israel on Sunday told residents of Khan al-Ahmar, a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank slated for demolition, to clear their houses by Oct. 1. Israel plans to demolish the village and relocate its 180 residents - Bedouins who scrape a living by raising sheep and goats - to a site 12 kilometers (7 miles) away, near the Palestinian village of Abu Dis and adjacent to a landfill site. The move has drawn criticism from Palestinians and some European states, who cite the impact on the community and prospects for peace.
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Young Indigenous artists paint their stories on big paper heads
Matthew Cardinal's big papier mâché head represents an Indigenous warrior, with a traditional Pendleton pattern on one side of his face and red stripes on the other. "Any form of artistry, I believe, should spark emotion," Cardinal told CBC in an interview this week.
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'Anaana's Tent' passes Inuit songs, legends, language to a new generation
In Pangnirtung, Nunavut, on the eastern tip of Baffin Island, Rita Claire Mike-Murphy's two-year-old niece is watching Treehouse TV. Mike-Murphy hosts the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network series "Anaana's Tent," an educational children's show aimed at preschoolers that teaches Inuit culture and language through puppets, music, and animation. After premiering in Inuktitut in May, the English version of the series premiered Sept. 15.
NewsReutersCosby sentencing is new milestone for #MeToo movement
When the comedian, once known as "America's Dad," is sentenced to what could be up to 10 years in prison this week for drugging and sexually assaulting a woman in 2004, it will be perhaps the starkest evidence yet that the #MeToo movement has permanently altered the way the country reckons with sexual misconduct by powerful men. "I'm hoping that's a permanent change – that there isn't the idea that you get to a point of success that you can do whatever you want," said Aviva Orenstein, a law professor at Indiana University who has studied sexual assault cases. Sexual favors are expected, and genius is recognized as an exception to decency." Cosby, once the beloved star of the 1980s television comedy "The Cosby Show," eventually faced accusations from some 60 women stretching back decades, some of which had long been known but previously failed to gain traction.
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Calgary Veterans Food Bank shuts down 4 months early
The Calgary Veterans Food Bank has shut its doors four months earlier than planned. The local Poppy Fund's board of directors said it would close the food bank in January 2019 in order to reallocate resources to other veterans' services. Melanie Mitra, with the Canadian Legacy Project, said the early closure is unfortunate.
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Hudson jogger struck by car in 2015 finds her stride doing CrossFit
For Tina Adams, the phrase, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger" is no cliché. Adams is living proof that not giving up is half the battle. "I kept my head up high the whole time and look where I am today," she told CBC Montreal's Daybreak.
NewsReutersFerragamo brings Tuscan countryside to Milan with new collection
(This refiled version of the story adds dropped word 'men's' to second paragraph.) By Giulia Segreti MILAN (Reuters) - The Tuscan countryside sprung in the heart of Milan on Saturday as Italian fashion designer Salvatore Ferragamo showed its spring-summer 2019 collection, full of soft hues and rich leather. Creative director of women's collections, Paul Andrew, and Guillame Meilland, head of the group's men's ready-to-wear, said the collection was inspired by the colour palette of Tuscany's rolling hills, vineyards and olive groves. It was a continuation of the Florence-based maison's autumn-winter collection, which was also created by the two designers.
NewsReutersAsian firms shuffle production around the region as China tariffs hit
Companies including SK Hynix of South Korea and Mitsubishi Electric, Toshiba Machine Co. and Komatsu of Japan began plotting production moves since July, when the first tariffs hit, and the shifts are now under way, company representatives and others with knowledge of the plans told Reuters. Others, such as Taiwanese computer-maker Compal Electronics and South Korea's LG Electronics, are making contingency plans in case the trade war continues or deepens. The quick reactions to the U.S. tariffs are possible because many large manufacturers have facilities in multiple countries and can move at least small amounts of production without building new factories.
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Coaches, players on Alberta university rugby team buckle up for Humboldt Broncos
The head coach of the University of Lethbridge Pronghorns women's rugby team says he's making it a habit to wear his seatbelt on the team's bus. Other coaches and at least half of the players on his team at the southern Alberta school are also buckling up. "We haven't made it policy so we haven't forced anybody," said Neil Langevin, who took his second-ever selfie and posted it on Twitter to set an example.
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Double-headed snake surprises homeowner
Scientists hope to find a new home for a rare copperhead snake found in Virginia. The double-headed creature was discovered in a garden and is unlikely to survive in the wild.
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Tracking scammers behind fake CRA calls: CBC's Marketplace consumer cheat sheet
It might be because the world's largest box office has been recruiting professional scalpers. CBC News and the Toronto Star went undercover and found Ticketmaster allows scalpers to defy ticket-buying limits and use fake identities to resell at inflated prices (with a cut for Ticketmaster). Ticketmaster issued a statement to CBC News saying it was "categorically untrue that Ticketmaster has any program in place to enable resellers to acquire large volumes of tickets." It also said it had already begun an internal review of professional reseller accounts and employee practices before the CBC News story came out.
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Federal workers cited 3,075 times for lapses in document security
Office workers at Public Services and Procurement Canada were cited 3,075 times last year for failing to lock up documents, USB keys and other storage devices containing sensitive information, says a new security report. "In 2017, we identified six employees who exceeded maximum offences and we are doing review for cause interviews," says a June 2018 briefing note, obtained by CBC News under the Access to Information Act. The results of the sweep, which included after-hours inspections of workers' desks and filing cabinets for sensitive documents and for storage devices left unsecured, are the first since the program was tightened and standardized on April 1, 2017.
NewsReutersPM May, EU leaders need to look at room for movement on Brexit: UK lawmaker
Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit proposals seem to have no life left in them and the government and European leaders need to look at what room for movement there is in negotiations, a senior pro-EU lawmaker from her Conservatives said on Sunday. "I am not sure there is life left in Chequers ...," Nicky Morgan, chair of parliament's Treasury Select Committee and a former government minister, told Sky News.
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Hay River councillor on why he's stepping away, and why so few people are running for office
Municipal elections are taking place in several communities across the N.W.T. on Oct. 15, but a few familiar faces will be missing from the race for council in Hay River. Current town councillor Kandis Jameson was acclaimed as mayor after no other candidates stepped up to the plate. Vince McKay, who serves on council now, isn't one of them.
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Ontario researchers use 3D-printing tech to replace part of dog's skull
Researchers at an Ontario university have used 3D-printing technology to replace the majority of a dog's cancer-ridden skull, a novel procedure they say marks a major advancement in veterinary medicine. Michelle Oblak, a veterinary surgical oncologist with the University of Guelph's Ontario Veterinary College, said she believes the procedure is the first of its kind in North America and a substantive leap from one other known case. "Our hope is this is something that could be more widely available on a broad scale," Oblak said.
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Body of missing fisherman Glen DesRoches found
The body of Capt. Glen DesRoches has been recovered, but his family members say they won't rest until the body of Moe Getson, the other fisherman lost at sea when their boat capsized off North Cape, P.E.I., has also been found. A vigil was held Sunday afternoon in Tignish for the DesRoches family. Desroches's body was found earlier in the morning about half a kilometre west of the North Cape Lighthouse.
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Lumsden corn maze honours 'heroes' that saved family business
A wildfire almost destroyed their home and took a bite out of their business, but the owners of Happy Hollow corn maze say the maze is back, with a special design that honours those that helped them when they needed it. In April, a massive grass fire swept through the Lumsden valley, burning across five hundred hectares and requiring fire crews from Lumsden, Craven and Regina to respond. "We were lucky," said Tiffany Schaefer, explaining despite the damage, they soon could see the most important assets of their business had been saved from the blaze.
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Calgary MLA Michael Connolly doesn't plan to seek re-election
NDP MLA MIchael Connolly announced Saturday that he does not plan to seek re-election in 2019. Connolly, who represents the riding of Calgary-Hawkwood, was one of the first three openly gay MLAs to be elected in the province, alongside Ricardo Miranda and Estefania Cortes-Vargas, and one of the first two to be elected in Calgary. Connolly was also the second-youngest elected MLA, at 21.
NewsReutersTanzania ferry death toll rises to 224, ship's managers detained
Tanzanian authorities said on Sunday the number of people who died in a ferry that capsized in Lake Victoria had risen to 224 and the vessel's managers had been detained for questioning. The ferry, MV Nyerere, sank on Thursday evening just a few meters from the dock on Ukerewe, the lake's biggest island. Works, Transport and Communication Minister Isack Kamwelwe told state broadcaster TBC the death toll had risen to 224 as of Sunday afternoon.
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Rental program brings Art Gallery of Alberta into your home
Imagine visiting an art gallery and taking home the pieces you love. You can actually do that at the Art Gallery of Alberta — for as low as $9 a month. For more than 60 years, the gallery has run an art sales and rentals program for homes and offices at an affordable cost.
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Out of Cambodian jail, filmmaker strolls on beach back home
Australian filmmaker James Ricketson took a stroll on a Sydney beach at dawn Monday while recuperating from more than a year in a Cambodian prison, his nephew said. The filmmaker had been arrested after flying a drone to photograph an opposition party rally in June 2017. Ricketson's arrest came during a severe crackdown on political opponents and media in Cambodia before its general elections this year that were widely considered neither free nor fair and resulted in a sweeping victory by long-ruling Prime Minister Hun Sen and his party.
