Alanis Morissette blasts documentary Jagged as 'salacious'

Just hours before the HBO documentary Jagged was to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Tuesday, Alanis Morissette criticized the film about her life as "reductive" and "salacious."
This rubber duck started a river race in Alberta and washed ashore in Russia

If rubber ducks could talk, one in particular would have an amazing adventure to tell. Duck No. 1417 floated from northern Alberta to Russia.
'We have been failed,' Olympic champion Simone Biles says in emotional testimony on sex abuse
Olympic gold medallists Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney and Aly Raisman blasted USA Gymnastics and the FBI in blunt and tearful testimony on Wednesday for standing by while Larry Nassar abused them and hundreds of other athletes.
Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Wednesday
The U.S. government will spend $470 million US to learn more about long COVID-19, its causes and potential treatments.
One issue in the North that all major federal parties agree on

It's not something that happens often in an election campaign. All four major parties running candidates in the North agree on an issue. They want to support an Indigenous-led program that could benefit Northern communities.
Ottawa is lending billions to developers. The result: $1,500 'affordable' rents

The federal government has lent developers billions of dollars to jump-start rental construction, all with affordability requirements. But data released under access-to-information shows that more than half of the projects will have average rents higher than those of the cities where they're being built.
Face to Face 2021: Jagmeet Singh met 4 undecided voters. Here's what happened
NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is not ruling out working with a minority government led by Erin O'Toole, marking a break with his commitment in the 2019 federal election not to work with a minority Conservative government.
'It was either me or him,' says Niagara police sergeant who shot fellow officer, as trial begins

Det.-Sgt. Shane Donovan testified Tuesday it was "either me or him" when he fired at least 10 shots at his fellow Niagara Regional Police officer, Const. Nathan Parker, in November 2018.
Conservatives wouldn't meet Canada's new UN climate target. Here's what that could mean

If the Conservatives are elected next week, they’ve indicated they won’t meet Canada’s updated greenhouse gas emissions target under the Paris Agreement. How much does that matter?
Annamie Paul says she's considered stepping down as Green party leader

Annamie Paul admits that before this snap election, she contemplated taking the drastic decision to resign as leader of the Green Party of Canada.