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NDP forges ahead with leadership race despite dissent

Former NDP MP Peter Julian said the party should take six months to talk to members across the country, take stock of what led to the disastrous 2025 election result and build a stronger foundation to move forward before jumping into a leadership race.
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  • Natasha Bulowski
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  • Ottawa Insider
July 10th 2025

Protestors prompt Hydro-Québec to suspend work at proposed plant in Labrador

Protesters have blockaded a Hydro-Québec work site at a proposed hydroelectric project in traditional Innu territory in Labrador, prompting the utility to suspend its operations in the area.
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  • Sarah Smellie
  • News
July 10th 2025

Pope prays for world to recognize urgency of climate crisis as he celebrates Mass' using new rite

Pope Leo XIV prayed on Wednesday for the world to recognize the urgency of the climate crisis and “hear the cry of the poor,” as he celebrated the first papal Mass using a new set of prayers and readings inspired by Pope Francis' environmental legacy.
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  • Nicole Winfield
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July 10th 2025

Vancouver council lowers speed limit to 30km/h on local streets to reduce collisions

Vancouver's city council has voted unanimously to reduce the speed limit on local streets to 30 kilometres per hour, down from the provincially mandated 50 kilometres per hour.
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  • Chuck Chiang
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  • Politics
July 10th 2025

US copper tariffs threat are met with shrugs, skepticism, though risks remain

US threats to impose 50 per cent tariffs on copper imports have been met with shrugs by Canadian mining companies and skepticism by analysts, though long-term risks remain.
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  • Ian Bickis
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  • US News
  • Politics
July 10th 2025

Report says BC events should get risk review, in wake of festival tragedy

Terry Yung says that when he attends Vancouver's Chinatown Festival this weekend, he'll enjoy himself knowing that the work has been done to make him and other attendees feel safe.
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  • Chuck Chiang
  • News
July 10th 2025

First Nations demand Ontario environment minister's resignation

Several dozen First Nations in Ontario called for the resignation of the province's environment minister on Wednesday after he asked the federal government to not reintroduce a bill that would enshrine clean drinking water rights in law.
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  • Liam Casey
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  • Politics
July 10th 2025

Canadian pharmaceutical industry alarmed after Trump hints at a 200 per cent tariff

Canada likely isn't the main target of US President Donald Trump's threat to impose a 200 per cent tariff on pharmaceutical imports, an industry representative said Wednesday — but his plan could still put parts of the Canadian sector in peril.
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  • Kelly Geraldine Malone
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  • US News
  • Politics
July 10th 2025

Extreme heat is killing more seniors. Cities aren’t ready

A report released on Wednesday by the United Nations Environment Programme, which details the impact of extreme heat on older people, found that worldwide, heat-related deaths in that group have gone up by 85 per cent since the 1990s, and that heat-related efforts that target that age demographic are needed imminently.
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  • Cloe Logan
  • News
July 10th 2025

‘Yuck factor’: eating insects rather than meat to help the planet is failing, study finds

People are disgusted by the idea of eating bugs despite their lighter planetary cost compared to traditional livestock.
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  • Oliver Milman
  • News
July 10th 2025

Trump allies fume Canadian smoke is ruining summer – and offer misinfo as the solution

Smoke from Canadian wildfires that have forced about a quarter of a million Canadians to evacuate since 2023 are preventing Americans in Trump-voting districts from "spend[ing] time outdoors recreating, enjoying time with family, and creating new memories," six Republican House representatives complained in an official letter. 
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  • Marc Fawcett-Atkinson
  • News
July 9th 2025

Ontario court halts Ford’s plan to tear out Toronto bike lanes

Protected bike lanes in Toronto must remain in place for now, an Ontario judge said on Tuesday. The Ford government had appealed a previous ruling that ordered the bike lanes to remain, but failed.
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  • Abdul Matin Sarfraz
  • News
  • Ottawa Insider
July 9th 2025

Burning of fossil fuels caused 1,500 deaths in the recent European heat wave, study estimates

Human-caused climate change is responsible for killing about 1,500 people in last week's European heat wave, a first-of-its-kind rapid study found.
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  • Seth Borenstein
  • News
July 9th 2025

Texas flooding, and politics around it, highlight the challenges Trump faces in replacing FEMA

Just weeks ago, President Donald Trump said he wanted to begin “phasing out” the Federal Emergency Management Agency after this hurricane season to “wean off of FEMA” and “bring it down to the state level.”
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  • Gabriela Aoun Angueira
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  • US News
  • Politics
July 9th 2025

Vaccination rates among children in Maritimes too low to stop spread of measles

At least three out of the four Atlantic provinces have released data revealing their measles vaccination rates in children are below levels recommended by scientists to prevent the disease from spreading.
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  • The Canadian Press
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July 9th 2025

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