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Mohammad Akhtar spends his days watching over the store he bought in the Pleasant Hill neighbourhood four years ago. But he can no longer legally enter the property, a converted house with a confectionary/grocery store on the first floor and a space where Akhtar was living on the second floor of the structure that was originally built in 1912. Akhtar said in an interview this week that he has been living with friends since Court of King's Bench Justice Ron Mills granted a community safety order to close the store for 90 days under Saskatchewan's Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) Act. The order cites an "astonishing" level of activity at the property this year, including 95 police calls, 38 of which involved drug overdoses. Akhtar admitted he has struggled to control the activity on his property, but flatly denied the suggestion in the order that he is somehow involved in the illegal drug trade. "I'm seriously very upset [about] what to do, how to handle them, again, because they cannot be controlled," Akhtar said of the people who frequent his property, 7 Days Confectionery & Grocery on the 1500 block of 20th Street West.

A crash involving three vehicles on Hwy. 401 in Woodstock led to a lengthy closure of the eastbound lanes Friday morning. All eastbound lanes on the highway were closed from Hwy. 2 through to Oxford Road 29 shortly after the collision around 4 a.m.

A Montreal man who rescued an injured raccoon and nursed it back to health says he is now fighting charges and trying to prevent wildlife authorities from taking the animal. Louka Berman found the seven-month-old raccoon, which he named Pepper, injured at a construction site in May. He said the animal and its mother had been shot with a crossbow. “Someone shot her with a crossbow, and they shot her too. So they thought that they were both dead,” Berman said. Berman nursed Pepper back to health with the intention of eventually returning her to the wild, but the baby raccoon has other ideas. Attempts to release the raccoon have been unsuccessful, he said, because Pepper will stay in the wooded area where he leaves her and wait for him to return. Story continues below advertisement

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Nova ScotiaIn the last five years, many post-secondary institutions in Nova Scotia started offering tuition waivers. It’s an effort to change educational outcomes for a group that’s been disadvantaged for decades, but a researcher studying the program says much more needs to be done. Atlantic Tuition Waiver project examines how to raise education outcomes for former youth in careShaina Luck · CBC News · Posted: Oct 16, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: October 16Listen to this articleEstimated 6 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Jacquie Gahagan is the associate vice-president of research at Mount Saint Vincent University and the lead on the Atlantic Tuition Waiver project. (Galen McRae/CBC)This fall, at least 45 students started post-secondary programs across Nova Scotia funded by tuition waivers specifically for people who were in government care.

N. B. Power says it has applications from 10 data centre projects to connect to its electrical system. The utility confirmed the number in a recent email to CBC News after facing questions from the legislature's public accounts committee on Oct. 9. Spokesperson Elizabeth Fraser-McAllister said these applications in N. B. Power’s “connection queue” would require about 900 megawatts of power. But, Fraser-McAllister said, “this does not mean the data centres that applied to connect to our electrical system will be realized.”The comments come after the public learned of two potential data centre projects proposed for New Brunswick in recent weeks. Fredericton-based company FTL — or Faster Than Light — recently presented a plan for a project it hopes to bring to Miramichi. Opportunities New Brunswick confirmed another large-scale project, potentially for Saint John, is under discussion with the company Cross River Infrastructure Partners. A joint venture between Beacon AI Centers and VoltaGrid, is also under environmental review for the expanded Spruce Lake Industrial Park in Saint John. WATCH | Data centre developers are ‘shopping around,’ N. B.

Open this photo in gallery:Pro-separation flags on a home in Coutts, Alta., Oct. 14. In August, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith acknowledged the province’s referendum was being targeted by foreign influence campaigns. Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian PressResearchers tracking how online influence campaigns are targeting Monday’s referendum in Alberta have noticed an increase in activity from the United States in the final weeks before the vote. Online narratives pushing the idea that Alberta has no choice but to sever ties and join the U. S. have become the dominant message being pushed into Canada by American sources, according to the Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Data, and Conflict at the University of Regina. Since the project began in July, about 80 per cent of suspected foreign influence activity targeting the Alberta referendum – roughly 40,000 items a month – has been linked to Russian bots and content farms, which churn out memes, social-media messages and videos aimed at promoting pro-separatist messages in Canada. The remaining 20 per cent has been linked to U. S. sources, including influential podcasters, right-wing political pundits and social media influencers.

TORONTO — A recent pause on financial assistance payments to private post-secondary institutions in Ontario is affecting divinity schools, Canada’s National Ballet School and many others, with students feeling unfairly swept up in what they describe as a trawling net-like policy. Colleges and Universities Minister Nolan Quinn announced last week that the province had tasked KPMG with auditing Ontario Student Assistance Program usage at career colleges, and that preliminary findings were of such concern that he referred the matter to the Ontario Provincial Police.

PoliticsAn internal memo told Justin Trudeau's government that it was expected to pursue the arrests of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his then defence minister and Hamas leaders if the International Criminal Court were to issue the warrants being prepared by one of its prosecutors. Adviser wrote in June 2024 that Canada has international obligations to ICCRaffy Boudjikanian · CBC News · Posted: Oct 16, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour agoListen to this articleEstimated 5 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Palestinians inspect the wreckage of a car after it was hit by an Israeli strike in Gaza City on Tuesday. The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants in 2024 related to the war, including for crimes against humanity allegedly committed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Over the past few months, the candidates vying to be Ottawa's next mayor have been laying out their campaign platforms. This week, we get to know the people behind the policies. Today: Neil Saravanamuttoo. Economist and former public servant Neil Saravanamuttoo is in his "happy place" combing through financial spreadsheets, but this mayoral candidate is anything but a timid number cruncher who wants to stay in the background. Despite spending most of his career in government, he’s branded himself as an outsider: an anti-establishment candidate who rails against "special interests" taking over Ottawa city hall. People who know him describe him as a creative thinker, and he’s framed his campaign around finding out-of-the-box solutions. Unlike the other contenders, he doesn’t surround himself with party backroomers. He often shows up for media interviews with a tripod and a phone to shoot his own videos for social media.

Students in McGill University’s law faculty say they are concerned about the presence of a convicted murderer on campus and at faculty events. The man, Jeffrey George Ewert, was convicted of second-degree murder and attempted murder for two attacks committed in B. C., in 1984: he sexually assaulted and killed one woman and, less than six weeks later, beat and choked a 15-year-old so severely that she was paralyzed and disabled for life, according to a summary of his case in his parole board file. Ewert is serving a life sentence and was granted day parole in 2025. He’s been attending law classes at McGill and going to faculty events since August. His parole was extended for another six months in June 2026. While various clinical assessments ranked Ewert’s risk of reoffending as moderate to high, official parole documents say with close supervision at a halfway house and clinical follow-up, that risk “seems to fall more into the moderate risk category.”Although Ewert’s case management team did not believe he posed an undue risk to society, the parole board did express concern about his interactions with and attitudes toward women.

My first morning at the Folk Canada conference feels somewhat discombobulating, and the discombobulation starts before I even arrive at the conference. I’m staying in one of the overflow hotels a mere seven-minute walk away from the conference hotel.

TORONTO, Canada — Many Canadians expect to support their parents or other aging relatives as they grow older, but a new survey suggests few households have made comprehensive plans for what that care could involve. Only 19% of Canadians surveyed reported having a comprehensive plan to care for an aging or ill family member, according to research commissioned by Sun Life and conducted by Earnscliffe. The finding points to a significant gap between the care families may eventually need to provide and their preparation for it.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Filipino-Canadians preparing to participate in British Columbia’s 2026 general local elections have until Saturday, October 17, to get ready to cast their ballots, with voters across the province set to choose representatives who will make decisions affecting their cities, neighbourhoods, and public schools. The elections will determine municipal mayors, councillors, school board trustees, and other local representatives, depending on the jurisdiction. Voting will take place from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. local time on October 17, according to the British Columbia government.

An incoming fall storm is bringing rain and strong winds to Ontario on Friday, followed by a sharp drop in temperatures that could deliver the season’s first lake-effect snowflakes to parts of southern Ontario. Temperatures will fall sharply behind the departing system, with the coldest conditions expected overnight Friday into Saturday. DON'T MISS: Winter snowfall across Canada may fall victim to El NiñoRain eases as cold air moves inRain will gradually ease across much of Ontario through Friday, although scattered showers are expected to linger. Rainfall totals could reach 20-30 mm in parts of eastern Ontario, with locally higher amounts possible. Behind the storm, strong northerly winds will usher in much colder air, with gusts near 50 km/h. The winds will also generate higher-than-normal waves along the Great Lakes shorelines. Temperatures will drop rapidly overnight, with some inland areas potentially reaching or falling below the freezing mark.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney warned the people of oil-rich Alberta against looming threats, suggesting that the United States was trying to "break" Canada so it could "own us. " Carney was speaking at a pro-Canada rally in Calgary, ahead of a vote which will decide if the disgruntled western province will begin a legal process toward separation from Canada. "The world has become more dangerous and divided. Some outside our borders are working to break us so they can own us," he said, without naming the US or its president, Donald Trump. This is not the first time Carney has made such a claim. His warning comes as Washington and Ottawa are in the middle of a trade war and Trump has threatened to make Canada the 51st US state. Meanwhile, Carney's push toward making Canada less dependent on the US has irked Trump. How could Trump react to Canada-EU association plan?11:28This browser does not support the video element. What is Alberta voting for? Monday's vote in Alberta is not a direct referendum on independence.