Author: The Canadian Post

After nearly a decade away, raccoon rabies in Quebec has returned, and provincial teams are vaccinating wild animals by the hundreds of thousands to keep the virus from reaching Montreal. The province counts 313 confirmed cases in 2026, most in Montérégie. Here is how the disease spreads, what officials are doing, and what residents should do. How raccoon rabies in Quebec came back Rabies is a viral disease that attacks the nervous system of mammals, including humans, and is usually transmitted when infected saliva gets into a wound or a mucous membrane, according to the Quebec government’s rabies page. Once…

One week after EverWind announced a proposed data centre campus at Point Tupper worth more than $10 billion, the Nova Scotia data centre debate has become a contest between two sets of numbers: the company’s promised jobs and tax revenue, and the project’s projected draws on provincial power and water. What EverWind is proposing at Point Tupper EverWind, a Nova Scotia energy company that owns the Point Tupper terminal near Port Hawkesbury, announced the plan on Friday, Oct. 16. More than $8 billion would build a data centre campus at its Point Tupper site, and a further $2 billion would…

The Korchinski-Paquet inquest was set to resume Friday in Toronto after an unexpected allegation from the dead woman’s mother halted testimony a day earlier. Claudette Beals told jurors she saw police officers push her daughter toward her 24th-floor balcony shortly before the 29-year-old fell to her death in 2020. What Beals told the Korchinski-Paquet inquest on Thursday Beals was describing her memories of May 27, 2020, when she told the inquest she saw officers push her daughter toward the balcony, then shortly afterward heard her call out for help. Korchinski-Paquet fell from the balcony of the west-end apartment she shared…

Six Canadians have filed a West Bank real estate complaint with the Competition Bureau, alleging four Israeli companies and one Canadian marketing firm promoted homes in West Bank settlements at events in Toronto and Montreal as if the properties were located inside Israel, misleading Canadian buyers about where the land actually is. What the West Bank real estate complaint alleges The complaint was filed in Ottawa on Wednesday, Oct. 21, on behalf of six Canadians, described by their lawyers as primarily from Palestinian and Jewish communities. It was brought by the Global Echo Litigation Center and Canadian Lawyers for International…

Canada’s first new national security strategy in more than two decades will be public within a few weeks, a senior adviser to Prime Minister Mark Carney has told MPs. David Morrison said the strategy will strengthen Canada’s defences against a wide array of threats, ending a wait that stretches back to 2004. A few weeks away, adviser tells committee Morrison, the prime minister’s senior diplomatic and international affairs adviser, told MPs on the House of Commons public safety and national security committee this week that he hopes the strategy will be public within a few weeks. He said it will…

Alberta’s new school flag rules will require every school in the province to fly the Canadian and Alberta flags and will restrict nearly every other flag on school property when they take effect on Jan. 4, 2027, the provincial government announced Friday. What the Alberta school flag rules allow at any time The Flag Display Regulation, signed by Education and Childcare Minister Demetrios Nicolaides as Ministerial Order 026/2026, requires school boards to fly the Canadian and Alberta flags outside school buildings during the school year. It applies to public, separate, francophone, charter and accredited independent schools. Only a short list…

Canada and the European Union are closing in on a Canada-EU digital trade agreement, International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu said Thursday, as negotiators push to finish the talks before next week’s Canada-EU summit in Montréal. The deal would set shared rules for online commerce between the two markets. What the Canada-EU digital trade agreement would cover Sidhu said the two sides are “closing in on an agreement” that would create less friction for businesses buying and selling online across the Atlantic. In a statement issued during his trip to Ireland, the minister pointed to electronic signatures and electronic contracts, paperless…

Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday that the Candu bid for Turkish nuclear plants, led by Montreal-based AtkinsRéalis, now has “good chances” of success, a sharp change from a year ago, as Canada and Türkiye deepen energy ties under a new strategic partnership signed in Ankara. The Candu bid for Turkish nuclear plants Speaking to reporters in Istanbul on Friday, after meetings with Turkish business leaders in sectors including energy, aerospace and critical minerals, Carney said the AtkinsRéalis bid has moved from long shot to serious contender in the span of a year. “If you would have asked us a…

The federal government says it is disappointed after the Public Service Alliance of Canada announced nationwide PSAC strike votes for 120,000 public service workers, a move the union says was forced by a wage offer averaging less than one per cent a year and a push for concessions at the bargaining table. What the PSAC strike votes will decide The votes cover members of three Treasury Board bargaining groups: Program and Administrative Services (PA), Technical Services (TC), and Education and Library Science (EB). Voting runs from November 16, 2026, to January 22, 2027, and PSAC says the dates, locations and…

British Columbia’s party leaders spent Friday, the final day of the B.C. campaign, trading their sharpest attacks of the snap election, as NDP Leader David Eby branded interim Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson a “Trojan horse” for extremists and Doerkson fired back in Eby’s own Vancouver riding. Eby closes with warning about who stands behind Doerkson Eby’s closing argument asked voters to look past Doerkson, a former B.C. Liberal first elected in Cariboo-Chilcotin, to the party standing behind him. The New Democrats pointed throughout the campaign to Conservative candidates dropped over online remarks, including one who said a car that drove…