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Canadian News

CBC News
Canadian Forces struggling with a training bottleneck, CDS tells MPs

CBC News
Minister says veterans on Canada's Invictus team will get health coverage by 2025

CBC News
Chinese students in Canada say they've been targeted by Beijing's campaign of fear

CBC News
Dreams of studying in Canada fade for students in India

Global News
International student asylum claims surged in 2023, data show

CBC News
CRTC criticized for offering assigned office space as fundraiser prize

CBC News
A nine-year push to increase P.E.I.'s population has radically changed the Island

Reuters News Agency
Air Canada fined by U.S. for flights over prohibited Iraqi airspace

Global News
Charge your phone overnight? Here’s why Montreal fire officials say to stop.

CBC News
OceanGate submersible implosion hearings cast CEO as greedy, reckless

Radio-Canada
Le marché des véhicules électriques au ralenti

La Presse canadienne
Sentence reportée pour trois des meneurs du blocage de Coutts

Canadian Commentary

Shannon Proudfoot | The Globe and Mail
Hope, history and hubris: Why it’s hard to walk away in politics – even from a dumpster fire

Amina Zafar | CBC News
Superbugs could kill 39 million people by 2050. Here's what Canadian survivors, doctors say should change.

Elizabeth Renzetti | The Globe and Mail
Men benefit from our world of ‘greedy work’

Alexander Panetta | CBC News
Gunshots, threats ... and bureaucracy? The latest menace to the U.S. election.

John Rapley | The Globe and Mail
Donald Trump’s fate is written in the falling stars of Trump Media

Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail
Doug Ford’s proposed tunnel under Highway 401 is transparently political - Video

Brodie Fenlon | CBC News
What's real? How CBC News verifies video and images.

International News

The Associated Press
Dozens dead and millions without power after Helene’s deadly march - More - More

The Guardian
Trump vows to resolve Ukraine-Russia war ‘very quickly’ - More - More

The Guardian
Trump vows to seek criminal charges against Google if re-elected president

The Associated Press
Glock pistols are popular among criminals because they’re easily modified

Reuters News Agency
Boris Johnson says he planned raid on Dutch factory to get COVID vaccines - More

The Guardian
Anti-immigration mood sweeping EU threatens its new asylum strategy

Reuters News Agency
Ukraine says it downed 69 drones, two missiles in overnight Russian attack

Reuters News Agency
Kyiv says Russian attacks on medical centre in Ukraine's Sumy kill eight, injure 11 - More

The Observer
Putin regime will collapse without warning, says freed gulag dissident

Reuters News Agency
Lusikisiki: Seventeen killed in mass shootings at two homes in South African village

Reuters News Agency
Lebanon blocks Iranian plane from entering airspace after Israeli threats

Reuters News Agency
Israeli military says it has killed Hezbollah chief Nasrallah - More

Reuters News Agency
Israel on alert after saying it killed Hezbollah's Nasrallah - More

Reuters News Agency
US to 'adjust' force posture in Middle East

Reuters News Agency
Iran's Supreme Leader moved to secure location under heightened security

Reuters News Agency
Nepal rains bring floods, landslides that kill 10, with seven missing

Reuters News Agency
Vietnam estimates damage of $3.31 bln from Typhoon Yagi - More

Reuters News Agency
China holds military exercise in South China Sea after talks with U.S.

Reuters News Agency
Philippines, US, Australia, Japan, New Zealand to hold joint maritime activity in South China Sea

Reuters News Agency
EU to vote on Oct 4 to finalize tariffs for China-made EVs

The Guardian
Archaeologists use AI to discover 303 unknown geoglyphs near Nazca Lines

Radio-Canada
La coalition chancelante du chancelier allemand Olaf Scholz

Radio-Canada
Les tensions entre Israël et le Liban en cinq dates clés

International Commentary

Jonathan Freedland | The Guardian
It’s not just Trump v Harris: America’s men and women are also locked in battle now

David Smith | The Observer
Why Trump and Vance’s strategy is ‘say anything, make up anything’

Ahilan Kadirgamar | The Guardian
Sri Lanka’s new president faces a problem shared by too many developing countries

John Jenkins | The Guardian
To understand the escalation in Lebanon, we must confront what Israelis are thinking

Peter Beaumont | The Guardian
Israel’s strike on Hezbollah leader is an alarming escalation in conflict

Justine Roberts | The Guardian
AI could be an existential threat to publishers – that’s why Mumsnet is fighting back