Toronto could become the first city in Canada to offer fully autonomous ride-hailing service after Waymo announced plans to begin laying the groundwork for a launch in the city by 2028. The California-based autonomous driving company says its vehicles will soon be seen on Toronto streets as it begins the first phase of operations under …
Drop by drop, Slovenia is losing its ice.
Here are the 10 questions Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is sending to a provincewide referendum on Monday.
Albertans vote Monday in a referendum asking whether they want the province to stay in Canada or to have a second, binding referendum on separating from Canada. Strains of western alienation go back decades.
Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, Oct. 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — EverWind will make a milestone announcement at its Point Tupper Industrial Site on Friday, October 16, 2026. This landmark investment will deliver major economic and community benefits to the Strait region and significantly advance our energy portfolio across Nova Scotia. EverWind CEO Trent Vichie will …
Prime Minister Mark Carney continues his pro-Canada campaign in Alberta as the clock ticks down to a referendum on whether the province should break up with Confederation.
TORONTO, Oct. 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — POET Technologies Inc. (“POET” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: POET) today announced that it will report its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2026, on Monday, November 16, 2026, at 7:00 a.m. ET, before the market opens. The results news release will be posted on the …
Members of the Royal Canadian Air Force Snowbirds aerial aerobatics team are set to perform their final air show on Friday in Moose Jaw, Sask., before their decades-old Tutor jets head into retirement.
MARKHAM, Ontario, Oct. 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pet Valu Holdings Ltd. (“Pet Valu” or the “Company”) (TSX: PET), the leading Canadian specialty retailer of pet food and pet-related supplies, will release its financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2026 on Tuesday, November 10, 2026 at approximately 6:30am ET, followed by a live …
Former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland says it's important for national security reasons that Canada do everything it can to diversify trade away from the United States.
TORONTO, Oct. 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Guardian Capital LP (the “Manager”) announces the following regular cash distributions for the period ending October 31, 2026, in respect of the ETF series of the Guardian Capital funds listed below (the “Guardian Capital ETFs”). In each case, the distribution will be paid on October 30, 2026 to …
Too late for me! One of the unintended consequences of Alberta remaining on summer hours all year is that some Flames games will now start at 9 p.m. As an old man, that is past my bedtime. LOL. JEFFREY ANDERSON (Fortunately, we’ve got you covered for the post-game wrap … calgarysun.com) Don’t like the new …
'It's not really part of the business model to build cash, so we think you will see a combination of ongoing share buybacks combined with organic growth next year, which is a bit of a shift versus the past couple of years'
Transaction in Own Shares October 15, 2026 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Shell plc (the ‘Company’) announces that on 15 October 2026 it purchased the following number of Shares for cancellation. Aggregated information on Shares purchased according to trading venue: Date of Purchase Number …
If UCP supporters had their way we would soon to be headed to an actual vote on leaving Canada — this is a problem for UCP Leader Premier Danielle Smith
Taxpayers can think of about 140 million problems that abolishing the Senate would solve. The unelected chamber is costing people more than $140 million to run this year and it’s cost more than $1 billion over the last decade.
Character.AI collected millions of users, making it a very appealing acquisition. Google took a unique route to "acquiring" it, hiring away its founders and licensing its technology. Now Character.AI is filing for bankruptcy. Here's what to know.
A couple of Osoyoos Rotarians are travelling to Liberia to provide sanitary kits for women and girls where a health clinic is going to be built on behalf of the local club. Sherry and Jim Chamberlain are taking off for their 10-day journey on Thursday, supporting the maternal health non-profit, I Ca...

Barnes Harley-Davidson will close its Kamloops location in January after a decade in business, blaming a shrinking market for heavy motorcycles. Barnes Harley-Davidson, located on Iron Mask Road, announced it will close permanently effective Jan. 16, 2027. The company is directing Kamloops-area cust...

After four tumultuous years at Kamloops city hall, candidates seeking seats around the council table say respect, restraint and a willingness to move on will be key to avoiding another dysfunctional term. Castanet asked mayoral and council candidates the same question: What will you do to ensure dys...

All four candidates for MLA in Penticton-Summerland argued their cases at a forum just ahead of advance voting. Today, Oct. 16, is the first day that voters in the provincial election can cast their ballots in the advance polling period, which runs through Oct. 21. The candidates for Penticton-Summe...

Vernon residents had their final chance to hear directly from the three candidates running for mayor during a live debate hosted by Castanet on Thursday night. Held at the Vernon Elks Lodge No. 45, the 90-minute event brought together incumbent mayor Victor Cumming, two-term councillor Kari Gares, a...

A Kelowna man who recently served a significant jail sentence for masturbating in public on a number of occasions was arrested again, just two weeks after his release from custody. David Brass, 32, made a brief appearance in Kelowna court Wednesday, following his arrest in the early morning hours of...

From changing how students are taught to spending untapped provincial funding, SD73 trustee candidates have a wide range of ideas for improving literacy and numeracy. The district's latest student-outcomes report showed strong transition and completion rates in older grades, as well as persistent eq...

Ellie Croft of Kelowna is $1,000 richer thanks to Castanet Classifieds - and she already knows what she'll spend the money on. Croft, who has been using Castanet Classifieds for the past 12 years, was randomly selected as the winner of the September giveaway. 'I thought my luck has changed,' she sai...

There are 6 days of advance voting, final voting day is Oct. 24
Shuswap Recreation Society says the Blackburn Park concession stand lost money in its inaugural year of operations, but staff believe its financial performance could improve in future years. At the Oct. 13 Salmon Arm council meeting, Darin Gerow, general manager of the Shuswap Recreation Society, pr...

As Kelowna voters head to the polls, addiction, homelessness and treatment are top of mind, and one local organization says it's already doing much of the work candidates are talking about. Freedom's Door has spent more than 20 years helping men move out of addiction and into long-term recovery. The...

The City of Penticton and BC Transit have partnered to offer free transit within the city for General Voting Day. On Saturday, Oct. 17, residents will have their last chance to hit the polls at the Penticton Trade and Convention Centre from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., or Skaha Lake Elementary School during th...

A deadly torrent of mud that swept through an underground tunnel at Kamloops' New Afton mine, killing one worker and injuring two others, has resulted in a $460,000 penalty against its former operator, New Gold. The record-setting penalty was imposed Thursday in Kamloops provincial court after the c...

World Food Day will fall on Friday, Oct. 16. For Canada, the occasion exposes an uncomfortable contradiction. We are an agricultural powerhouse, with productive farms, extensive trade networks and internationally respected research. Yet millions of Canadians struggle to afford the food our economy h...

With social disorder getting attention during both the municipal and provincial election campaigns, Kelowna's Uptown Rutland Business Association is pushing for action. URBA president Justin Bullock has sent a letter to the minister of Social Development and Poverty Reduction laying out what the bus...

In an election with dozens of candidates from a variety of backgrounds vying for seats on council, figuring out who to vote for can be a challenge. That's why voters often turn to endorsements, particularly at the municipal level, where candidates may be less familiar than those who are running prov...

Historic O'Keefe Ranch & Interior Heritage Society president Douglas MacGregor is pushing back on financial figures cited by Mayor Victor Cumming, calling them "inflated" and questioning the accuracy of the information being presented to the public. The society says it was informed by ...

Senate committee recently tabled eight recommendations to improve “the backbone of the Canadian economy.” The post Q&A: Senator Daryl Fridhandler on why Canada needs to better support its smaller businesses first appeared on BetaKit.
Prime Minister Mark Carney told thousands rallying in Calgary on Thursday night that Albertans should vote to keep the province in Canada, arguing that failing to do so would cause "deep division and great uncertainty."
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has lifted the suspension of the country's national police chief Fannie Masemola, his office announced on Friday.

With just days before Alberta’s vote on an independence referendum, longtime Quebec sovereigntists are distancing themselves from the western province's separatists.
ALTADENA, Calif. (AP) — Throughout the arduous process to rebuild the Altadena home where she lived for nearly 50 years, Mary Landau has sometimes felt like giving up. Much of what has sustained her is the encouragement she receives from…

NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO UNITED STATES NEWSWIRE SERVICES OR FOR DISSEMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES CALGARY, Alberta, Oct. 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — San Lorenzo Gold Corp. (“San Lorenzo” or the “Company”) (TSXV: SLG; OTC: SNLGF) is pleased to announce a best-efforts private placement of up to 7,547,200 common shares of the Company (the “Offered …
The first two confirmed Ebola cases in Kenya have raised urgent questions about the country's public health preparedness and border controls. But the health ministry says there is no need for panic.
India host West Indies in the final match of the tour on Saturday with an all-time classic T20 series level at 2-2.
Citing problems with the data transmission network, Italian authorities have drastically reduced the volume of flights in their airspace. The ENAV authority ruled out malicious activity and said flights remained safe.
A GOP loss in Texas would be a major blow for the US president and the Republicans Hello and welcome to the US politics live blog. Donald Trump has accused fellow Republicans of “doing everything possible to make it hard” for Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee in the Texas Senate race. Katie Zacharia, the White House’s new press secretary, has stated that it is “unknown” how much she will engage with the press or hold briefings with reporters, as questions about her legal credentials continue to
Key Permitting Milestones Advancing Under FAST-41Dr. Anne Duncan Hired as GM, Coosa Graphite MinePreliminary Mine Planning and Design Work Underway Westwater Resources, Inc. (NYSE American: WWR), an energy technology and battery-grade natural graphite company (“Westwater” or the “Company”), today announced continued progress related to the Coosa Graphite Mine (“Coosa”) in Coosa County, Alabama. Coosa is …
Turin, 16th October 2026. Iveco Group N.V. (EXM: IVG) (the “Company”) announces that its Shareholders approved all the resolutions proposed by the Board of Directors (the “Board”) to the Extraordinary General Meeting (the “EGM”) held today in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The EGM was held to discuss and adopt resolutions in connection with the voluntary public …
It is Palestine’s olive harvest, but settlers have set their trees and vehicles on fire.
NEW DELHI (AP) — Indian authorities increased security in the capital and closed a central New Delhi park on Friday ahead of a flag-waving protest called by the youth “Cockroach” movement demanding the resignation of India’s election chief.

BANGKOK (AP) — Guardrails are urgently needed to contain potential risks from the boom in artificial intelligence, the head of the International Monetary Fund said Friday, likening the technology to a Formula 1 race car that might go off the…

It is the first time the president has addressed nuclear weapons, but he didn't deny US could use 'mother of all bombs'.
The UN is warning that nearly one million displaced Palestinians face flooding risks as winter approaches.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian attacks on nine regions of Ukraine caused emergency power outages for hundreds of thousands of households and damaged numerous homes, wounding at least 15 people, officials said Friday, as civilian casualties from Moscow’s invasion climb…

Images from New Zealand aerial survey of Nikumaroro in 1938 offer new clues over aviator’s disappearance A New Zealand museum has released nearly 50 photos from a 1938 aerial survey of the island where Amelia Earhart is believed to have crash-landed, offering amateur sleuths new evidence to scour for traces of the pioneering aviator and her plane. The black-and-white images were published by the Air Force Museum of New Zealand after renewed interest in one of the biggest mysteries of the 20th ce
Joshua Foster pleaded guilty over death of toddler who fell from fourth-floor window of hotel during family holiday A British man has been handed a €3,000 (£2,500) fine after his two-year-old son fell nearly 12 metres (40ft) to his death from the fourth floor window of a hotel in Cyprus. Joshua Foster thought the window was closed when he placed the boy on a sill to show him the view of a waterpark and “lost control” of him, the court previously heard. Continue reading...
Legend of Canadianism includes role as tell at the border
The Utah Mammoth have not had much success against Edmonton in their brief existence.

From: Will Falk To: Canadian Healthcare Observers Date: October 16, 2026 Re:Digital Health, Clinical AI and the Trade War The reality of digital healthcare in Canada has long been that three largest hospital EMR vendors have almost no Canadian presence. Epic and MEDITECH have zero Canadian employees, and the Cerner part of Oracle only a handful, even as …
Those in positions of public trust ought to be worthy of them
U.S. steel CEO wants PM Carney to join ‘Fortress North America’
While it’s a relief that government will no longer approve MAID for mental illness, it is unconscionable that they will add advance requests
Author Steven Galloway was cross-examined by one of the women he's suing because she is not using a lawyer. Bad call on her part
Navi Pillay has spent her career obsessed with Israel, while ignoring the atrocities of Hamas
FP Answers: Unless he is named specifically in the will as a beneficiary, he may not have inheritance rights if there is a will
Unfortunately for Canada ...
Stop the Datacentre, a grassroots advocacy group, is looking for more signatories before the municipal elections are held later this month.

Executing people isn’t barbaric, but showing people being executed would be? How does that make sense?
Data from a recent Bank of Canada survey showed that AI adoption and use by business remains at an early stage
Last year, more than one-third of Canadian businesses had trouble finding candidates with the skills they needed
Two years ago, I could go to my local pharmacy, a five-minute drive away, to get flu and COVID shots at the same time. Since changes made last year by Danielle Smith, I have to travel much farther away to get a COVID shot, to an AHS clinic. I’m a senior and just lucky that …
Our effective tax rates are competitive but our system is too complex and tilts too much toward exploration and development, not processing
As violent spirits are unleashed in Sky’s Possession, observers see confident creatives reclaiming the island’s narratives in a form of ‘cultural reparation’ A woman opens a 300‑year‑old box, unleashing a violent spirit – it is the spirit of colonialism and oppression roaring back to life. It is a pivotal scene in Sky’s supernatural series Possession and symbolises a wider shift in Jamaica’s film industry, where directors are increasingly using the landscape to tell Jamaican stories – includi
The SIR is disenfranchising marginalised communities and advancing the Hindu nationalist project.
Toronto’s Aerium has set out to build “the next Siemens of the world.” The post McKinsey alumni raise $2.5 million USD to build AI for industrial manufacturers first appeared on BetaKit.
Matija Renčelj on why space is the natural starting place for Canada and the EU to build on existing ties. The post Why space is Canada’s gateway to European collaboration first appeared on BetaKit.
Mansour Abbas, a dentist-turned-lawmaker, helped oust Benjamin Netanyahu once before. Now, he and a Jewish ex-police commander have teamed up to try to do it again.
Sanae Takaichi said she has a busier schedule than her male predecessors, a nod to the disproportionate share of household tasks in Japan that fall to women.
The former Senate candidate has endorsed her former primary foe — but not pushing hard for former backers to do the same
The prime minister is expected to announce plans on devolving decision-making powers away from both Westminster and Holyrood towards regions and towns Good morning and welcome to our UK politics live blog. Prime minister Andy Burnham is in Scotland today where he is expected to invite Scotland’s first minister, John Swinney, to collaborate on devolving decision-making powers away from both Westminster and Holyrood and pushing control further down to Scottish regions and towns. The newswires have
Joshua Foster will have to pay 3,000 euro (£2,500), a judge in Paphos rules.
Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians in towns across the occupied West Bank during the olive harvest on Friday and set fire to cars and trees.

As the Toronto Maple Leafs watched another multi-goal lead disintegrate, as they could have used a play or two to reset a rink that was increasingly tilting toward Sergei Bobrovsky’s crease, and as 3-on-3 overtime begged for a hero, Gavin McKenna sat upright in the middle of the bench. Toes cold and brow dry, McKenna …
Owen Power had the overtime winner as the Buffalo Sabres reeled off three unanswered goals to rally past the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-4 on Thursday. Jack Quinn had a pair of goals for Buffalo (4-3-1) before Dennis Gilbert and Mattias Samuelsson scored in the third to tie it 4-4. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped 26 shots in …
Sanctions and a North Korean leadership that prioritises security dim prospects for trade, analysts say.
Lisandro Martinez apologises for his criticism after on-field spotlight shifts to Manchester United from City.
Cockroach Janta Party standoff with government extended as youth-led movement calls protest over jailing of activists.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. and his government on Friday protested remarks by China’s ambassador to Manila, calling them “a thinly veiled threat of the use of force” in the latest flare up in the two Asian…
Le patron de Tesla Elon Musk a dévoilé jeudi soir une voiture qui sera capable de voler, dans une séquence évoquant un film de science-fiction.
Eight games is a small sample size but there's no denying the Ottawa Senators are playing with confidence.

OTTAWA, Ontario, Oct. 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) has updated its 2026 and 2027 forecasts for home sales activity and average home prices via the Multiple Listing Service® (MLS®) Systems of Canadian real estate boards and associations. It’s been another roller-coaster year for many of the factors that have …
OTTAWA, Ontario, Oct. 16, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The number of home sales recorded over Canadian MLS® Systems fell by 2.3% month-over-month in September 2026. “After a four-month run of modestly positive progress on demand, supply, and prices, many of Canada’s housing markets took a step back in September. This was hardly surprising given the …
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV’s recovery from lung surgery has progressed so normally that the Vatican on Friday stopped providing morning updates confirming he had woken up and had breakfast, even as questions continued about what his cancer means…

Even on one of the most memorable nights of his NHL career, Kirill Marchenko was his own harshest critic.

Randall Denley: He has a knack for identifying things that irritate the public and proposing simple solutions. If only he weren't running for mayor.
National benchmark home price down 3.5% from a year earlier as month-over-month sales slow, CREA report finds
LJUBLJANA, Slovenia (AP) — Drop by drop, Slovenia is losing its ice.

Montreal's Louka Berman found the seven-month-old raccoon, which he named Pepper, injured by a crossbow bolt at a construction site in May and nursed the baby back to health.

Crime plunged after police raids killed thousands. Venezuela is now withdrawing from the International Criminal Court as it investigates this blood-soaked campaign.
Crime plunged after police raids killed thousands. Venezuela is now withdrawing from the International Criminal Court as it investigates this blood-soaked campaign.
The Canadian Real Estate Association has downgraded its forecast for home sales activity in 2026 for the third straight quarter.

The Canadian Real Estate Association has downgraded its forecast for home sales activity in 2026 for the third straight quarter.