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B.C. politicians talk groceries, seniors amid election campaign
GRAND FORKS - British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby says his election promise to cap unfair increases on grocery staples is aimed at multiple major grocers in the province and was not deliberately targeting one company. Eby says the distribution of foo...
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Defendant says sorry to former UBC professor days before defamation trial to start
VANCOUVER - One of several accusers of former University of British Columbia professor Steven Galloway says she now understands her conduct toward him was "serious and harmful" as she apologized just days before a defamation trial in the case is expect...
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Debris spotted from missing Ontario air ambulance off Nantucket: U.S. Coast Guard
Debris from a missing Ontario air ambulance that had been carrying six people, including four Canadians,
has been spotted off the coast of the United States. The U.S. Coast Guard said search crews found a debris field roughly 150 kilometres southeast o...
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Experts eye Alberta referendum as case study on impacts of artificial intelligence
EDMONTON - On any given day, says Aengus Bridgman, if you ask a popular artificial intelligence chatbot and a search engine whether taxes in an independent Alberta would be higher, it might say yes. A few hours later, it could be no. Responses from Goo...
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Byline or bot? AI-generated 'journalists' start to appear in Canada
OTTAWA - Quebec correspondent "Geneviève Tremblay" - who has been reporting on multiple news stories a day lately - seemed to be experiencing a glitch. She wasn't the only one. All of We News' reporters and editors seemed to be malfunctioning on Friday...
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Quebec political leaders make final pitch as election campaign nears end
MONTREAL - Quebec's political parties are making a final push for undecided voters as the provincial election campaign enters its last weekend before Monday's vote. The leaders of the five main parties made multiple appearances in the province Saturday...
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Michael J. Fox laments Canada-U.S. trade war, says people-to-people ties still strong
OTTAWA - Michael J. Fox says the state of the Canada-U.S. relationship is "sad" and "pointless" but he believes ties between Americans and Canadians on the "human level" remain strong. "It's really sad. It's so pointless. And I have to tell you, it doe...
Oct 2, 2026
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Both British Columbia NDP, Conservative leader campaigned in the Okanagan Friday
VICTORIA - British Columbia's major party leaders took their election campaigns to the Okanagan Friday to talk about fire safety and the high cost of groceries. Interim Conservative party leader Lorne Doerkson is promising to spend half a billion doll...
Oct 2, 2026
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B.C. man sentenced for 'hateful' messages written on Victoria historic synagogue
VICTORIA - A British Columbia man who defaced a historic synagogue in Victoria with "unquestionably hateful" statements has been sentenced to eight months in jail. B.C. provincial court Judge Micah Rankin's ruling released this week says Arthur Robert...
Oct 2, 2026
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G7 to release 100 million barrels of oil in attempt to tame soaring fuel prices
OTTAWA - Canada and its fellow industrialized countries in the G7 agreed Friday to release 100 million barrels of oil and fuel products in the coming weeks. The pledge includes the release of "substantial" amounts of diesel after prices for the fuel re...
Oct 2, 2026
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Extortions, fire bombings, shootings lead to arrests of 5 foreign nationals, RCMP say
LANGLEY - Five foreign nationals are in police custody and face a string of charges arising out of an RCMP extortion investigation involving members of British Columbia's South Asian community. Supt. Harm Dosange, with the Langley RCMP, said Friday th...
Oct 2, 2026
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After arson attack, Liberal MP warns violent rhetoric puts all MPs at risk
OTTAWA - Liberal MP Salma Zahid says she's concerned about escalating violent rhetoric directed at MPs - including the leader of another party. "We need to lower the temperature," Zahid told The Canadian Press. "The reality we are living in is (that) s...
Oct 2, 2026
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In the news today: Canadian in orbit, Alberta separatists unmoved, k.d. lang honoured
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Canadian astronaut reaches International Space Station for six-month mission Friday marks Canadian astronaut Jeremy Kutryk's first full day in space after he and h...
Oct 2, 2026
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Michael J. Fox promoted to companion level of Order of Canada
OTTAWA - Celebrated actor and Parkinson's disease activist Michael J. Fox said he felt both "pride" and "humility" while receiving a promotion within the Order of Canada on Friday. Spectators stood and applauded Fox at Rideau Hall as Gov. Gen. Louise A...
Oct 2, 2026
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PQ's promised referendum targeted as Quebec election campaign enters final stretch
MONTREAL - Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon was the primary target on Friday as his political rivals urged Quebec voters not to elect a sovereigntist government with less than three days to go in the provincial election campaign. Leaders...
Oct 1, 2026
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Supreme Court to examine jurisdictional question in alleged cryptocurrency fraud case
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will look into whether an Ontario court had jurisdiction to impose a statutory freeze on cryptocurrency in an alleged fraud case. Three Nigerian citizens are accused of defrauding a person in Canada of about $65,000...
Oct 1, 2026
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QuickQuotes: Reaction to the Pacific Link pipeline project
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Thursday that the Pacific Link pipeline project is the first to be designated a project in the national interest under the Building Canada Act. The designation allows the federal government to streamline th...
Oct 1, 2026
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Health ministers say Ottawa needs to renew mental health, home care funding
OTTAWA - Health ministers from across the country say they're worried about "profound and negative" effects on patients and health-care jobs if federal funding agreements for mental health, addictions and home care are not renewed in this year's budget...
Oct 1, 2026
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A timeline for Pacific Link, the 'national interest' Alberta-B.C. pipeline plan
CALGARY - A new million-barrel-per-day oilsands pipeline to the West Coast is the first to be deemed a project of national interest - a key step if the proposal is to advance. Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced the ...
Oct 1, 2026
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Indigenous groups given just two months to consult on pipeline project designation
OTTAWA - Indigenous communities along the route for the newly announced West Coast oil pipeline were given just two months for consultations on whether the pipeline should be designated a project of national interest - and that was still more than the ...
Oct 1, 2026
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How has medical understanding of 'shaken baby syndrome' evolved?
TORONTO - An Ontario mother's acquittal in the death of her infant son is the latest display of medical evidence of shaken baby syndrome discredited in the courtroom. Jennifer Gaskin had been convicted of manslaughter in the death of her 2 1/2-month-ol...
Oct 1, 2026
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Here's a look at the ridings where voters can expect federal byelections soon
OTTAWA - Voters in a number of ridings across the country will choose new federal representatives in the coming weeks and months after members of Parliament from four major parties quit the House of Commons for diplomatic appointments, provincial polit...
Oct 1, 2026
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Carney gives Alberta pipeline special interest designation, to be called Pacific Link
FORT MCMURRAY - A pipeline to haul Alberta oil to tankers on the B.C. coast took a big step forward Thursday. Prime Minster Mark Carney, with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith at his side, announced the line - to be known as Pacific Link - is the first pr...
Oct 1, 2026
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Budget watchdog says Alto rail construction could cost more than Ottawa predicts
OTTAWA - The federal budget watchdog is warning construction of a high-speed rail line between Toronto and Québec City could cost more than Ottawa's initial estimate. The Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer released a report Thursday that attemp...
Oct 1, 2026
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AI agent attempted to hack Library and Archives Canada, says U.S. research group
OTTAWA - The website for Library and Archives Canada was one of the targets of a failed hacking attempt by an artificial intelligence agent, a San Francisco-based lab that monitors AI activity said in a report this week. Transluce posted an incident re...
Oct 1, 2026
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In the news today: pipeline announcement, minimum wage hikes, Canadian goes to space
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Carney expected to announce decision on pipeline's national interest designation Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to announce today that an oil pipeline to t...
Oct 1, 2026
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Canadian astronaut reaches International Space Station for six-month mission
MERRITT ISLAND - Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk's first thought after being told Thursday he had made it to space was one of disbelief. "I don't really believe it yet," Kutryk said after being told the crew was in orbit, about 10 minutes after blasti...
Oct 1, 2026
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Tsawwassen First Nation mourns 'pillars' killed in Delta, B.C. crash
Family members of two Tsawwassen First Nation elders killed in a collision outside a shopping centre in Delta, B.C., on Wednesday say the women were "cultural pillars" of their community. Statements shared by the nation on social media on Thursday say ...
Oct 1, 2026
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