Category Archives: SaskToday.ca: National News

Montreal's mayoral election is about affordability and the homeless -- and bike lanes
MONTREAL - In a recent debate on Radio-Canada, Soraya Martinez Ferrada, one of the leading candidates for mayor of Montreal, brought up comments made more than two years ago by a borough mayor compari...
Morgan Lowrie and Giuseppe Valiante, The Canadian Press Oct 27, 2025

Canada's status as a country without endemic measles can now be revoked
TORONTO - Canada is poised to lose its international status as a measles-free country now that an outbreak that began in New Brunswick and spread to other provinces has hit the one-year mark. The coun...
Nicole Ireland, The Canadian Press Oct 27, 2025
BR-Hunger-Report
TORONTO - A new Food Banks Canada report says Canada's hunger crisis is deepening. The organization's 2025 HungerCount report says monthly visits to food banks neared two-point-two million visits in M...
Canadian Press Oct 27, 2025

Food costs are spiralling. These Canadians are turning to food banks for help.
TORONTO - Sticker shock hit hard when single mom Kristina Kennedy saw the sausages she usually buys were $1.50 more than expected. As the sole caregiver to four children, the 40-year-old says price hi...
Cassandra Szklarski, The Canadian Press Oct 27, 2025

Bank of Canada expected to cut key rate despite mixed inflation, jobs data
OTTAWA - Most economists expect the Bank of Canada will look past strong jobs data and signs of stubbornness on the inflation front to deliver a second consecutive interest rate cut this week. BMO chi...
Craig Lord, The Canadian Press Oct 27, 2025

'Shocking' data shows more treatment needed for youth with opioid use disorder: doctors
TORONTO - An editorial published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Monday says more youth are using opioids and calls for urgent action to provide treatment when they become addicted. "Th...
Nicole Ireland, The Canadian Press Oct 26, 2025

Canadian War Museum's chief historian, Tim Cook, dies
OTTAWA - The Canadian War Museum says its chief historian and research director has died. The museum's CEO announced the death in a news release Sunday, saying Tim Cook was "instrumental in shaping th...
Canadian Press Oct 26, 2025

Was that Colonel Sanders behind home plate at the Blue Jays game?
No, your eyes weren't deceiving you, Jays fans. That was Colonel Sanders behind the plate. A man looking very much like founder of KFC, right down the white suit, hair, mustache and Van Dyke beard, wa...
Fatima Raza, The Canadian Press Oct 26, 2025

Residents say Port of Montreal expansion in Contrecoeur unnecessary, harmful
MONTREAL - Dozens of residents of a town northeast of Montreal where the Port of Montreal wants to expand capacity at a container facility say the project is unnecessary and harmful. Residents demonst...
Sébastien Auger, The Canadian Press Oct 26, 2025

B.C. public service union announces tentative deal to end strike after 8 weeks
BURNABY - The B.C. General Employees' Union says it will recommend that its members vote to accept a tentative deal reached with the provincial government to bring an end to strike action, while a uni...
Canadian Press Oct 26, 2025












