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Spring forward, fall back, or neither? Follow the push to stop changing the clocks.

Sidewalk or bike lane, helmet or not, rental fleets or bans: the rules for the newest thing on city streets.

Lockers, pouches, or pockets? How schools are deciding what stays out of the classroom.

Who gets served in French, and where, from Quebec’s language rules to francophone rights across the country.

As AI moves into schools, policing, and hiring, lawmakers are deciding who answers for what it does.

A plain-language briefing on the power, water, land-use, and local-government fights around new data centres.

Some First Nations have boiled their tap water for decades. Track the advisories, the money, and the law meant to end them.

From puppy mills to farm barns to wildlife, the laws that decide how animals are kept and treated.

Age checks, feed limits, and social media bans: what platforms will owe their youngest users.

Longer fire seasons are changing how forests are managed, crews are funded, and towns rebuild.

Drilling rights, pipelines, royalties, and the wells left behind: the rules under the energy economy.

Legal isn’t simple: licences, storefronts, edibles, and impaired driving in the cannabis era.

Betting is on every phone now. Governments are deciding how far the ads, odds, and apps can go.

Flavours, age limits, and corner-store sales: the push to keep vapes away from teens.

Licensing, storage, buybacks, and bans: who can own a gun, and which ones are allowed.

The overdose crisis in law: treatment, naloxone, settlement money, and the fight against fentanyl.

Access, medication abortion, clinic safety, and funding: where the law draws its lines.

Who qualifies, what safeguards apply, and whether a request can be made in advance.

Climate, conservation, and environmental rules.

Budgets, tax policy, and the wider economy.

Hospitals, public health, and care systems.

Schools, colleges, and training policy.

Civil rights, family policy, and social change.

Transit, energy grids, and public works.

Diplomacy, treaties, and relations abroad.

Defence, intelligence, and the armed forces.

Digital policy, research, and new industry.

Work, unions, and the labour market.

Housing, cities, and how places grow.

Courts, policing, and the criminal law.

Emergency services, crime prevention, and community safety.

Citizenship, borders, and settlement.

Parks, Crown land, and resource access.

Markets, consumer rules, and trade.

Income supports and social programs.

Indigenous rights, governance, and services.