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Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney says a global recession is likely, making it challenging for Canada to avoid a similar economic downturn. 

While testifying before the Senate banking committee on Thursday, Carney said Canada may fare better than others because of mitigating factors such as the country's ties to the U.S. as well as the strong labour market recovery after the pandemic.

A senior Ontario Provincial Police officer is expected to be cross-examined this morning at the federal government's inquiry into the use of the Emergencies Act.

Supt. Craig Abrams told the commission yesterday that his officers saw dysfunction in the ranks of the Ottawa Police Service even from the early days of the protest. 

He said Ottawa police failed to come up with an operational plan and were not properly deploying OPP officers sent to Ottawa to help patrol the "Freedom Convoy" protests in February.

A study suggests lower-income and younger people may be more at risk of developing lung cancer long-term because they can't afford to remove radon gas from their homes.

The study, from a multidisciplinary team of cancer researchers at the University of Calgary and University of British Columbia, was published Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports at Nature.com.

The researchers interviewed those living in nearly 3,000 households across Canada who had tested for and found radon in their homes.

Sachigo Lake First Nation community members can now enjoy clean water from their taps after construction wrapped up at their water treatment plant – ending their long-term boil water advisory.

Indigenous Services Canada says the boil water advisory was lifted on October 12 after an upgrade to the community’s water treatment system and expansion of the wastewater lagoon. The advisory had affected nearly 200 homes and 5 community buildings.

The Canadian Pacific Holiday Train will be spreading cheer across Canada once again this year!

The CP Holiday Train shifted to a virtual concert event for the previous two years due to COVID-19, with CP making donations to food banks on behalf of communities.

But CP Spokesperson Salem Woodrow says the annual holiday train will be returning to make its way through Canada this holiday season, as staff hope to collect as much food and raise as much money as they can for food banks across the country.

Parents across northwestern Ontario who have been sending their kids to childcare services in 2022 could be eligible for thousands of dollars in rebates.

The federal Minister of Families, Children and Social Development, Karina Gould, says parents with children under the age of six that are attending eligible childcare services will see their childcare fees reduced by 25 per cent retroactive to April 1, 2022 – saving families an average of $2,200 per child.

The "Freedom Convoy" had gridlocked Canada's capital city for more than two weeks before the "floundering" Ottawa police force approved a detailed plan to handle it, senior police officers have told the public inquiry into the Liberal government's use of the Emergencies Act.

Patricia Ferguson, the acting deputy chief of the Ottawa police, said Thursday that the force assumed protesters would not stay longer than a weekend and relied at first on a boilerplate plan that had been used for other downtown events involving big crowds, such as Canada Day celebrations.

The Kenora Under 18 AAA Thistles are getting back into the swing of things as they earned their third and second consecutive win last night in Beausejour.

They took the game 4-1 over the Eastman Selects. Eastman scored in the first, but Carter Peters evened it up late in the period. Emerson Evans added one in the second, while Andon Lowes and Nickolas Fagnili put two in the back of the net in the third. James Sinclair stopped 42 shots.

The Thistles will have the week off before heading back to Beausejour next Wednesday.

An RCMP officer who was fatally stabbed Tuesday in a park in Burnaby, B.C., was there to notify the occupant of a lone tent that he wasn't allowed to live there, police said Wednesday. 

Sgt. Timothy Pierotti of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team told a press conference that Const. Shaelyn Yang, 31, volunteered to work on a mental health and homeless outreach team and she was helping a city worker deliver the news to the man, he said. 

Staff say the new Kenora Jail could be the first step towards a transformation and revitalization of Ontario’s correctional system.

The new 50-unit facility is a major expansion to the Kenora District Jail, which was first built in 1926, and offers a wide range of new services and supports for both inmates and staff operating the building. It's a model that could spread throughout Ontario, if successful.