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Montreal Anti-Insult Bylaw 2026: $350-$1,000 fines for insulting police or city workers. Yet the bylaw never defines what an insult is. Full story.

Cineplex Strategic Review: new CEO Bill Walker takes over as Canada’s biggest theatre chain explores a potential sale. What happens next.

Commit to Kids Newfoundland gets $200K to train 1,000 more K–12 school staff in child-abuse prevention. 1,140 already trained since 2024.

Grifols Winnipeg Plasma centre licence suspended by Health Canada over quality-management failures after two donor deaths at 693 Taylor Ave.

Métis Tiny Homes Saskatchewan: 12 rentals coming to La Loche, Cumberland House and Buffalo Narrows in a $3.26M project led by Métis Nation–Saskatchewan.

Moncton overdose calls have stabilized after a late-spring spike, the fire chief told council — 983 overdose calls so far in 2026, up from 470.

Construction has begun on a 90-bed NSCC Kingstec residence in Kentville, adding affordable on-campus housing and easing pressure on the local rental market.

P.E.I. minimum wage rises to $17.30/hr on Oct. 1, 2026 — highest in Atlantic Canada. But $5.47 below the living wage: is it enough for Islanders?

The Winnipeg Mayoral Ballot is set: 12 candidates, Gillingham ahead, but 51% of voters undecided. Key dates, platforms and what comes next.

Manitoba paid $250,000 each to Richard Beauvais and Eddy Ambrose, the two men switched at birth in 1955 at an Arborg hospital. The province’s new financial disclosures reveal the settlement, two years after Premier Wab Kinew’s formal apology.