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Galen Weston arrives for a meeting on the growing cost of food in Ottawa, Sept. 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Grocery bosses pledge help addressing skyrocketing food prices

Grocery CEOs meet with Canada’s federal ministers, agree to work to stabilize food prices

Galen Weston arrives for a meeting on the growing cost of food in Ottawa, Sept. 18, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Small spot fires continued to flare up alongside Northwest Territories highways leading into Hay River, Fort Smith and Yellowknife, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Bill Braden

Hay River wildfire evacuees return home after month away

Changed landscape made drive home an emotional one for displaced Northwest Territories residents

Small spot fires continued to flare up alongside Northwest Territories highways leading into Hay River, Fort Smith and Yellowknife, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Bill Braden
Jenn Clamen, national coordinator for the Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform, speaks during a rally outside the Ontario Superior Court after the launch of their constitutional challenge to Canada’s sex work laws, on Monday, October 3, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin

Sex work laws constitutional, Ontario court rules after charter challenge

Challenge targeted the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act

Jenn Clamen, national coordinator for the Canadian Alliance for Sex Work Law Reform, speaks during a rally outside the Ontario Superior Court after the launch of their constitutional challenge to Canada’s sex work laws, on Monday, October 3, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin
Girls attend school on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 25, 2023. Two years after the Taliban banned girls from school beyond sixth grade, Afghanistan is the only country in the world with restrictions on female education. Now, the rights of Afghan women and children are on the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

The Taliban have banned girls from school for 2 years. It’s a worsening crisis for all Afghans

Two years after the Taliban banned girls from school beyond sixth grade,…

Girls attend school on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 25, 2023. Two years after the Taliban banned girls from school beyond sixth grade, Afghanistan is the only country in the world with restrictions on female education. Now, the rights of Afghan women and children are on the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
Relatives of Maurice “Mo” Miller, Mary Miller-Duffy, his sister, center left, and Sue Duffy, her wife, embrace after seeing his body at NYU Langone Health in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. For a history-making 61 days and despite a brief rejection blip, a pig’s kidney worked normally inside his brain-dead body. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)

Pig kidney works a record 2 months in donated body, raising hope for animal-human transplants

Dozens of doctors and nurses silently lined the hospital hallway in tribute:…

Relatives of Maurice “Mo” Miller, Mary Miller-Duffy, his sister, center left, and Sue Duffy, her wife, embrace after seeing his body at NYU Langone Health in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023. For a history-making 61 days and despite a brief rejection blip, a pig’s kidney worked normally inside his brain-dead body. (AP Photo/Shelby Lum)
Parliament buildings in Ottawa. (Black Press file photo)

Canada’s MPs return with cost of food, housing taking centre stage

House of Commons resumes sessions today with debate focused on the cost of living

Parliament buildings in Ottawa. (Black Press file photo)
Sarah and Dave Roy are seen during their wedding in a still image made from video shot at the Garcelon Civic Centre in St. Stephen, N.B., Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. Post-tropical storm Lee may have thrown a wrench into the Roy’s wedding plans, but the newlyweds feel the upheaval it caused on their big day is nothing but a positive sign for their future life together. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Hina Alam

N.B. couple proceeds with wedding amid onslaught from post-tropical storm Lee

Couple says they’re now confident they can handle whatever else married life throws their way

Sarah and Dave Roy are seen during their wedding in a still image made from video shot at the Garcelon Civic Centre in St. Stephen, N.B., Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. Post-tropical storm Lee may have thrown a wrench into the Roy’s wedding plans, but the newlyweds feel the upheaval it caused on their big day is nothing but a positive sign for their future life together. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Hina Alam
<div>Members of Parliament will return to their seats in the House of Commons tomorrow as the governing Liberals lay out major new housing and cost-of-living initiatives hoping to end the beating their party is taking in the polls. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to reporters in the foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, June 21, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick</div>

Parliament resuming with focus on cost of living, housing fixes

Heads of grocery store chains set to appear Monday to discuss food inflation

<div>Members of Parliament will return to their seats in the House of Commons tomorrow as the governing Liberals lay out major new housing and cost-of-living initiatives hoping to end the beating their party is taking in the polls. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks to reporters in the foyer of the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Wednesday, June 21, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick</div>
Waves crash against a breakwater in Port Maitland, N.S. as post-tropical cyclone Lee approaches on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Bill Curry

Now a post-tropical storm, Lee moves into Gulf of St. Lawrence

Thousands still without power on Canada’s east coast Sunday

Waves crash against a breakwater in Port Maitland, N.S. as post-tropical cyclone Lee approaches on Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Bill Curry
Pierre Blouin sits inside the Cyclorama de Jerusalem, in Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré, Que., on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. The last cyclorama in Canada has been hidden from public view since it shuttered in 2018, but a small group of people are hoping to revive the once popular attraction. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot

Group aims to resurrect 128-year-old Cyclorama of Jerusalem, near Quebec City

The 360-degree painting has been closed to the public for 5 years

Pierre Blouin sits inside the Cyclorama de Jerusalem, in Ste-Anne-de-Beaupré, Que., on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023. The last cyclorama in Canada has been hidden from public view since it shuttered in 2018, but a small group of people are hoping to revive the once popular attraction. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot
Economists are forecasting inflation reaccelerated to around four per cent last month, reversing previous progress made as gasoline prices push inflation higher. A person is silhouetted as people shop for produce at the Granville Island Market in Vancouver, on Wednesday, July 20, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Inflation likely gained pace in August, economists expect, reversing progress

Latest consumer price index report to be released Tuesday

Economists are forecasting inflation reaccelerated to around four per cent last month, reversing previous progress made as gasoline prices push inflation higher. A person is silhouetted as people shop for produce at the Granville Island Market in Vancouver, on Wednesday, July 20, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, front left, and the Italy’s Premier Giorgia Meloni, front right, visit the island of Lampedusa, in Italy, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Sunday toured a migrant center on Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa that was overwhelmed with nearly 7,000 arrivals in a 24-hour period this week. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

EU pledges crackdown on ‘brutal’ migrant smuggling

Leaders visiting Italian island where thousands of migrants can arrive on a single day

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, front left, and the Italy’s Premier Giorgia Meloni, front right, visit the island of Lampedusa, in Italy, Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023. EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Sunday toured a migrant center on Italy’s southernmost island of Lampedusa that was overwhelmed with nearly 7,000 arrivals in a 24-hour period this week. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)
Workers hold signs at a picket line outside a Metro grocery store in Toronto as workers rejected a tentative deal triggering a strike of nearly 3,700 grocery store workers in the Greater Toronto Area, Saturday, July 29, 2023. It was Samantha Henry’s first time on strike, and one that made headlines across the country. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston

Canadians more supportive of striking workers amid inflation, corporate profits

Union support not tracked in Canada, but experts noticing more public sympathy

Workers hold signs at a picket line outside a Metro grocery store in Toronto as workers rejected a tentative deal triggering a strike of nearly 3,700 grocery store workers in the Greater Toronto Area, Saturday, July 29, 2023. It was Samantha Henry’s first time on strike, and one that made headlines across the country. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Cole Burston
Former President Donald Trump speaks during the Pray Vote Stand Summit, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Trump refuses to say how he watched the Jan. 6 attack unfold at the US Capitol

Former president said he would “tell people later at an appropriate time,” in a Sunday interview

Former President Donald Trump speaks during the Pray Vote Stand Summit, Friday, Sept. 15, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
An archive image of Smiths Falls is seen on the wallpaper behind Mayor Shawn Pankow as he participates in an interview at the Town Hall in Smiths Falls, Ont., on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

The economic roller-coaster of an Ontario town fuelled by chocolate and cannabis

Hershey’s returning to Smiths Falls to reopen its chocolate factory

An archive image of Smiths Falls is seen on the wallpaper behind Mayor Shawn Pankow as he participates in an interview at the Town Hall in Smiths Falls, Ont., on Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Politicians and others who support policies that would require parental permission for teachers to use a student’s preferred pronouns at school say they are about including parents in the lives of their children. Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah, the executive director of the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity. Owusu-Akyeeah, in her role as a commissioner for the Ottawa People’s Commission on the Convoy Occupation, speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby

Debate over pronouns pits parental rights against children’s, experts say

New Brunswick, Saskatchewan making it requirement for schools to get parental consent for name change

Politicians and others who support policies that would require parental permission for teachers to use a student’s preferred pronouns at school say they are about including parents in the lives of their children. Debbie Owusu-Akyeeah, the executive director of the Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity. Owusu-Akyeeah, in her role as a commissioner for the Ottawa People’s Commission on the Convoy Occupation, speaks during a news conference in Ottawa, on Tuesday, April 4, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
In this photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, center, and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, foreground right, arrive to inspect Russian warplanes at the Vladivostok International airport in Vladivostok, Russian Far East Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on his way home after trip to Russia

Talks believed to be centred around possible weapons transfer

In this photo released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service, North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un, center, and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, foreground right, arrive to inspect Russian warplanes at the Vladivostok International airport in Vladivostok, Russian Far East Saturday, Sept. 16, 2023. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
Modern architecture stands above the medieval ritual bath (mikveh) discovered in 2007, in Erfurt, Germany, Monday Sept. 11, 2023. A U.N. committee voted Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023, to name a group of medieval-era Jewish sites in the eastern German city of Erfurt as a World Heritage Site, the second time Jewish heritage has been added to the list in Germany in recent years. (Martin Schutt/dpa via AP)

UNESCO names medieval Jewish buildings in Germany a World Heritage Site

Buildings include a synagogue and ritual bath

Modern architecture stands above the medieval ritual bath (mikveh) discovered in 2007, in Erfurt, Germany, Monday Sept. 11, 2023. A U.N. committee voted Sunday, Sept. 17, 2023, to name a group of medieval-era Jewish sites in the eastern German city of Erfurt as a World Heritage Site, the second time Jewish heritage has been added to the list in Germany in recent years. (Martin Schutt/dpa via AP)
FILE - An NYPD vehicle responds, Feb. 20, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

NYC day care owner, neighbor arrested after toddler dies from opioid exposure

Three other children sickened

FILE - An NYPD vehicle responds, Feb. 20, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
FILE - Designer Olivier Rousteing accepts applause after the conclusion of the Balmain Fall/Winter 2023-2024 ready-to-wear collection presented Wednesday, March 1, 2023 in Paris. Balmain artistic director Olivier Rousteing says robbers have made off with more than 50 pieces of the new collection that his Paris house intends to show at Fashion Week later this month. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP, file)

Designer says robbers stole 50 items from upcoming Paris Fashion Week show

Group allegedly hijacked delivery driver, made off with clothes

FILE - Designer Olivier Rousteing accepts applause after the conclusion of the Balmain Fall/Winter 2023-2024 ready-to-wear collection presented Wednesday, March 1, 2023 in Paris. Balmain artistic director Olivier Rousteing says robbers have made off with more than 50 pieces of the new collection that his Paris house intends to show at Fashion Week later this month. (Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP, file)