First Snowfall Of The Season To Happen This Weekend

British Columbia's interim Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson says his party's projection of 3.2 per cent economic growth by 2029 represents about one per cent "more optimism" than the New Democrats had previously budgeted.

The Conservatives' figure, which is more than 50 per cent higher than the forecast in the last provincial budget, is also considerably higher than recent projections by the Bank of Canada and International Monetary Fund at the national level.

The Calgary Opera has replaced a performer who unfurled a Palestinian flag during the curtain call of the political opera “Tosca.”

On Friday, the bass singer Gabriel Sanchez-Ortega held up the flag at the end of Giacomo Puccini’s drama about love and betrayal during political upheaval in Napoleonic Rome.

A Hermes 900 Starliner surveillance drone was disassembled and shipped from Greenwood, N.S., to Iqaluit in early October, and its capacity for flying in Arctic conditions will be tested until spring 2027, according to the Canadian Coast Guard.

The drone is currently being housed in Iqaluit’s Transport Canada hangar and is the Canadian Coast Guard’s only large remotely-operated piloted aircraft, but micro drones are also in the fleet.