Local Swifties on Taylor's Toronto stopsNewsDuration 2:51Ottawa's not on Taylor Swift's tour list, but local fans are still taking in the excitement. Celeste Decaire spoke to fans on their way to the Eras Tour.

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Joy, tears and deafening applause as Taylor Swift takes TorontoNewsDuration 3:59Tens of thousands of ecstatic Taylor Swift fans rejoiced as the pop superstar played an hours-long set at Toronto’s Roger Centre in the first of six sold-out concerts.

Check out Santa's new float for this weekend's paradeNewsDuration 3:47After 45 years, Santa is getting a new float for Saturday's K-W Santa Claus parade. Organizers with the Lions Club of Kitchener teamed up with Conestoga College's School of Trade and Apprenticeship to bring the festive float to life. CBC K-W's Karis Mapp reports.

MLA Daniel Qavvik’s resignation marks 6th departure from cabinet since 2021Nunavut’s Environment minister has resigned from cabinet. A new release issued Thursday evening said Daniel Qavvik resigned for personal reasons on Wednesday. Qavvik, who was appointed minister of Environment in September 2023, was also the minister of Culture and Heritage, and minister responsible for energy, and languages. Akeeagok will take over as minister of Culture and Heritage and minister responsible for languages. Minister David Joanasie will take over the Environment portfolio, and also become minister responsible for energy.

For years Trump has said free trade has been a disaster for American workers; a sentiment shared by many in his inner circle. In his book No Trade is Free, Trump's former trade representative Robert Lighthizer says what was once a nearly unanimous Washington consensus on free trade is now dead. Trump, from an American point of view, has been proven right, said trade lawyer Mark Warner, a principal at MAAW Law in Toronto. But he spends multiple chapters on China and what he sees as the lunacy of entering free trade deals with an adversary. Trade experts say upending decades of international trade deals comes with no small amount of risk.

Last night, CBC held the first Leaders Debate of the election. Our leader, Zach Churchill faced off against the PC and NDP leaders, and defended our plan to provide a Better Deal for Nova Scotians. The NDP leader presented their shortsighted plan full of pie in the sky ideas that aren’t thought out. The NDP leader showed her narrow focus on the issues that matter to her – but not to all Nova Scotians. The NDP and PC leaders had one thing in common: they’ve prepared a number of half-measures for Nova Scotians.

Hordes of giant rats are a problem, say Cape Breton residentsNewsDuration 2:05Rats are becoming bigger both in size and numbers, say some Sydney residents. And they want something done about the trash-eating critters. Erin Pottie has the story.

Boissonnault faces new scrutiny over his statements on family’s Indigeneity – CBCNov 15, 2024Employment minister says he’s not Indigenous — experts say past statements appear contradictoryEmployment Minister Randy Boissonnault is set to face a new round of questions over his business dealings and family history at a parliamentary committee in the wake of a report that his former company claimed to be “Indigenous owned” when bidding for federal contracts in 2020. The minister and Edmonton MP has been tied up in multiple probes into past business dealings for months. The medical supplies company he co-founded, Global Health Imports (GHI), became mired in lawsuits, scandal and probes into whether Boissonnault continued to work with the company after becoming a cabinet minister — which would be illegal. Boissonnault has denied all allegations and has claimed his former business partner, Stephen Anderson, was working without his consent to “advance his personal interests.”Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/boissonnault-metis-claims-1.7383775

What Canada does to monitor H5N1 avian flu – CBCWays to try to stay safe from bird flu virusNov 14, 2024A teenager diagnosed with bird flu in British Columbia is the first domestically acquired human case of H5N1 avian influenza, the Public Health Agency of Canada says. Since Influenza A or flu viruses are named after the animal where they are most commonly found, avian viruses are naturally found in birds. H5N1 is a highly transmissible and usually mild disease in geese, swans and seagulls as well as domestic birds such as chickens and turkeys. Scientists at the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg sequenced the genome of the virus from the infected B.C. The tests showed the version of the virus is related to the avian influenza viruses from the ongoing outbreak in poultry in B.C., the Public Health Agency of Canada said Wednesday.

Province says 6 more MDs joining Health P.E.I., including 4 associate physicians – CBCOncologist, internal medicine physician, physician assistant also being hiredNov 14, 2024The province said it has hired four associate physicians, one physician assistant and two specialists, most of them starting work next year, as it continues to recruit heavily to ease P.E.I.’s health-care crunch. Health Minister Mark McLane said the department has had some success over the past 12 months, with 37 physicians hired in a calendar year that saw about 14 retiring or otherwise leaving the P.E.I. In comparison, Health P.E.I. hired 24 physicians in 2023. For the first time ever, McLane said, associate physicians and physician assistants are joining the provincial health care system.

The Onion buys Alex Jones’s Infowars site at bankruptcy auctionNewsDuration 2:00Satirical news outlet The Onion has acquired conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’s Infowars website at a bankruptcy auction. The bid was backed by families of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that Jones called a hoax.

Vancouver police arrest 1 at home linked to terrorist groupNewsDuration 1:28People living in East Vancouver say they were surprised when police arrived in their neighbourhood in full tactical gear with an armoured vehicle. As Sohrab Sandhu reports, officers say it was part of a hate crime investigation at a home with links to a terrorist group.

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Irving-owned company taken off Wolastoqey title claim suit – CBCNov 15, 2024Strescon reaches deal with Wolastoqey Nation to fund scholarship program in tradesOne of the many industrial companies named in a large title claim from the Wolastoqey Nation in New Brunswick has been removed from the lawsuit. Chief Patricia Bernard of Madawaska First Nation says a deal has been reached with Strescon, a Saint John-based concrete company and a subsidiary of John Irving’s Ocean Capital. Bernard said the company offered to provide a bursary scholarship for Wolastoqey students in the trades through New Brunswick Community College. The scholarship has a value of $120,000, and two students annually would be able to receive a bursary of up to $5,000. Read More: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/strescon-taken-off-wolastoqey-title-claim-1.7384033