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Inspired Features
Inspired Albertans: Darrel Janz
For dedicating himself for so long to telling the story of our city and its people, Darrel Janz is this week's Inspired Albertan.
Canada
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CTV News in Italy
CTV News in Italy Stolen Winston Churchill 'Roaring Lion' portrait returned after ceremony in Italy
World
Politics
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PM Justin Trudeau to adjust cabinet roles today, as Pablo Rodriguez quits
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be making adjustments to his cabinet today, CTV News has confirmed. The small shuffle is the result of longtime cabinet minister Pablo Rodriguez quitting.
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BREAKING
BREAKING François Legault wants the Trudeau government to fall
Quebec Premier François Legault is calling on the Bloc Québécois to topple the Trudeau government next Wednesday and trigger a federal election.
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Federal foreign interference inquiry to hear from political party officials today
A federal inquiry into foreign interference is scheduled to hear today from Bloc Quebecois, Green and New Democratic Party officials.
Health
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Ontario minister and ex-CFL player Neil Lumsden will donate his brain for concussion research
Ontario’s Minister of Sport, Neil Lumsden, will donate his brain to research.
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American companies advertising MRI services to Manitoba patients
Manitobans are getting another reminder of how long wait times are for diagnostic images.
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New indoor supervised drug inhalation site to open in Vancouver
Supervised injection sites are saving the lives of drug users everyday, but the same support is not being offered to people who inhale illicit drugs, the head of the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS says.
Sci-Tech
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Lebanon bans pagers, walkie-talkies from flights
Lebanese authorities on Thursday banned walkie-talkies and pagers from being taken on flights from Beirut airport, the National News Agency reported, after thousands of such devices exploded during a deadly attack on Hezbollah this week.
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NASA replicates Mars 'spiders' in lab in groundbreaking experiment
NASA scientists have successfully replicated spider-like shapes found on the surface of Mars in a laboratory setting for the first time.
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Ontario minister and ex-CFL player Neil Lumsden will donate his brain for concussion research
Ontario’s Minister of Sport, Neil Lumsden, will donate his brain to research.
Entertainment
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Florence Pugh says her body 'went into a bit of trauma' after shaving her head for movie role
British actress Florence Pugh has revealed that shaving her head for her latest movie role was a 'really bizarre' experience that sent her body 'into a bit of trauma.'
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MrBeast and Amazon sued by competitors from his US$5M reality show over alleged 'unsafe' conditions
MrBeast is accused of creating 'unsafe' employment conditions, including sexual harassment, and misrepresenting contestants' odds at winning his new Amazon reality show's US$5 million grand prize in a lawsuit filed Tuesday by five unnamed participants.
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Sean 'Diddy' Combs will stay in jail after bail is denied for a second time
Lawyers for Sean "Diddy Combs asked a judge Wednesday to let him await his sex trafficking trial at his luxury home on an island near Miami Beach, rather than a grim federal jail in Brooklyn.
Business
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Maple Leaf refutes bread price-fixing claims ahead of attempt to add it to lawsuit
Maple Leaf Foods asserted its innocence in an alleged bread price-fixing scheme ahead of a hearing to determine whether it will be added to an ongoing class-action lawsuit.
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TD CEO to retire next year, takes responsibility for money laundering failures
TD Bank Group, which is mired in a money laundering scandal in the U.S., says chief executive Bharat Masrani will retire next year.
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Canada Goose to get into eyewear through deal with Marchon
Canada Goose Holdings Inc. says it has signed a deal that will result in the creation of its first eyewear collection.
Lifestyle
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Influencer couple denies leaving kids alone on cruise
For most people, dinner on a cruise ship is a time to relax. But when influencer couple Abby and Matt Howard decided to kick back with a dinner à deux, they ended up kicking up a storm.
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How to recoup costs when you travel to an event that gets cancelled
Trips can make lifelong memories when they go off without a hitch, but cancellations and rescheduled events are common because of artist illnesses, poor ticket sales, security threats, unruly weather and natural disasters.
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Thailand's adorable pygmy hippo Moo Deng has the kind of face that launches a thousand memes
Only a month after Thailand's adorable baby hippo Moo Deng was unveiled on Facebook, her fame became unstoppable.
Sports
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Matthew Tkachuk opens up about the death of his friend Johnny Gaudreau
Matthew Tkachuk estimated that he tells a story about Johnny Gaudreau's exploits, both the on-ice and off-ice variety, to somebody at least once a week.
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Former Arsenal soccer player arrested for alleged US$800,000 drug smuggling from Thailand
A soccer player who once appeared for Arsenal in the Champions League has been charged in connection with trying to smuggle cannabis worth 600,000 pounds (US$800,000) through a British airport.
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Ontario minister and ex-CFL player Neil Lumsden will donate his brain for concussion research
Ontario’s Minister of Sport, Neil Lumsden, will donate his brain to research.
Autos
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Woman steals Porsche, runs over owner after responding to Mississauga Auto Trader ad
Video of a brazen daylight auto theft which shows a suspect running over a victim in a stolen luxury SUV has been released by police west of Toronto.
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Some Ontario EV plants are hitting the brakes. Does that mean Canada's ambitions are under threat?
The plant was expected to produce batteries for a million electric vehicles a year. Once up and running, it was supposed to create hundreds of permanent jobs in a small southeastern Ontario municipality. But two years later, spending on the construction of the Umicore plant has been delayed in what the company calls a "significant worsening of the EV market context."
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Classic car in the family since 1958 stolen from Winnipeg garage
A Winnipeg man is asking for help after a classic car that has been a part of his family since the 1950s was stolen from his garage.