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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.

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.

Stories about those who lost their homes in last weekend's Woodsmere Close fire continue to pour in. 

Among the six families and people who lost their homes was Greg Brunsgaard, an active-duty officer with the Canadian military. 

Brunsgaard was out of the country on duty when he got the news.

"I was overseas, and in the UK," said Brunsgaard. "I got a phone call from my neighbour and he told me that there was a fire and that I might have a bit of smoke damage." 

Kochia is becoming more of an issue for farmers as it continues to build herbicide resistance.

Dr. Charles Geddes is a Research Scientist in Weed Ecology and Cropping Systems with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - Lethbridge.

He says it's now safe to assume all kochia is Group 2 resistant, with Glyphosate resistance (Group 9) building as well.

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According to Environment Canada, smoke in the area is coming from several forest fires in Alberta and British Columbia. 

The majority of the smoke in Fort Saskatchewan is coming from our neighbouring province.

Danielle Desjardins, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, says the smoke may not be around much longer.

"We do have this change in the weather patterns, so it's going to become a little bit more unstable, which should ventilate some of that haze in the next coming days."

A Morinville man has been arrested after being caught with stolen catalytic converters on St. Albert Trail. 

Early Wednesday (Oct. 19) morning, St. Albert RCMP conducted a late-night patrol and noticed a blue GMC SUV with its license plate covered with a piece of cardboard.

According to police, they stopped the SUV and identified the driver as Terry Pitts, a 49-year-old resident of Morinville. Pitts was on multiple conditions from previous release orders, including not being allowed to drive a vehicle. 

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.