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By Fakiha Baig The Canadian Press Posted March 29, 2026 4:39 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Alberta’s premier says she welcomes diverse opinions in her caucus after a legislature member of her United Conservative Party opined a referendum on separation is good for the province. Danielle Smith reiterated on her provincewide radio show Saturday her government supports a sovereign Alberta within a united Canada despite the views Red Deer-South MLA Jason Stephan expressed a day before in an op-ed published on an online conservative media outlet’s website. Get daily National news Get daily…
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 29, 2026 4:53 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Montreal police say they are suspending the search for a young man who fell through the ice of the des Prairies river in the city’s West Island on Thursday. Jean-Pierre Brabant says police divers as well as officers in boats and on foot have searched the river and its banks in recent days without locating the missing 18-year-old. Get daily National news Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you’ll never miss the day’s top stories.…
Avi Lewis is the new federal leader of the NDP, but the leaders of provincial counterparts in Alberta and Saskatchewan are making it clear they want no part of his policies. Lewis won the leadership on the first ballot Sunday with 56 per cent of the vote, a decisive victory over four competitors.But as Lewis begins his role, Saskatchewan NDP Leader Carla Beck says she’s turning down his invitation to meet.“The positions that you have taken when it comes to natural resource development are ideological and unrealistic,” Beck said in a letter released slightly more than an hour after Lewis’…
Bitcoin Everlight opens Phase 3 presale as stablecoin adoption draws broader retail attention to digital asset participation SAN FRANCISCO, March 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitcoin Everlight, a transaction routing and validation network operating alongside the Bitcoin blockchain, has opened Phase 3 of its public presale with BTCL priced at $0.0012 per token. The launch coincides with a period of growing mainstream interest in digital assets, driven partly by the rapid expansion of stablecoin infrastructure across traditional financial platforms. Broader Adoption Creates New Entry Points Stablecoins have moved well beyond early crypto adopters. Major payment processors, regional banks, and consumer…
By Staff The Canadian Press Posted March 29, 2026 12:18 pm Updated March 29, 2026 12:19 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size Police says one person is dead after a helicopter crash in southern New Brunswick. Sgt. Pierre-Luc Haché with the RCMP says the Robinson R-44 helicopter was travelling from Fredericton to the airport in Sussex, N.B., which is about 80 kilometres northeast of Saint John.He says police in Sussex got a call just before 7 p.m. on Saturday from the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre in Halifax about a missing helicopter with one person…
Avi Lewis has been named the new leader of the federal NDP, drawing to a close a six month leadership campaign. The new leader won on the first ballot, receiving 56 per cent of the total votes cast during the election, or 39,734 out of a possible 70,930. Get breaking National news Get breaking Canada news delivered to your inbox as it happens so you won’t miss a trending story. It’s also a clear victory for Lewis as the party uses a ranked ballot system, meaning voters rank the candidates in order of preference, often leading to multiple rounds. The…
The $50 Epilogue GB Operator has a brand-new trick up its sleeve. In addition to backing up Game Boy, Game Boy Color and Game Boy Advance cartridges and saves to a PC, it can now plug into your phone with a brand-new Retrace app for Android and iOS. The idea: check if cartridges are legit, and how much they’re worth, before you buy or sell them.Is it reliable? I plugged around 50 cartridges into the app, and… it could use some work. While most of my English and Japanese library was detected without a hitch, it also called a few…
New York City, NY, March 29, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The debate on oral health has in recent years gone past the conventional hygiene. Although, in the process of brushing, flossing, and frequent check-ups, the mechanisms of dental health are not being overlooked, the importance of microorganisms in the process of ensuring stability in the mouth is getting more and more recognition. This has brought about the awareness of the oral microbiome and its association with common dental conditions, with products such as ProDentim being part of this growing discussion. The oral microbiome is a multifaceted ecosystem of bacteria that…
Apple’s most legendary computer has two legacies: there’s the computer itself, and there’s the commercial. That commercial. Only a couple of days before Steve Jobs debuted the computer that would both help cement his legacy and contribute to his unceremonious exile from Apple, the company dropped a Super Bowl ad that is still one of the most iconic commercials of all time. It raised both the hype and the stakes for the Macintosh in a big way.The Macintosh wasn’t a great computer, at least at first. It didn’t have enough memory; there wasn’t enough software that supported it; it wasn’t…
Jenni Gibbons was always drawn to the stars. Now, the Calgary-born astronaut is set to take part in NASA’s Artemis II mission, which will send humans to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. “So much of our life is enabled by space,” Gibbons said in an interview with The Canadian Press.Gibbons is Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen’s backup. If all goes to plan, she won’t be on the rocket — but she will still perform a critical role in its launch and voyage through space.NASA has targeted an April 1 launch for Artemis II, with a…