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In the news today: investment summit, Alberta police shooting, age verification
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Prime Minister Carney to kick off first investment summit in Toronto Prime Minister Mark Carney is welcoming the world's investors to Toronto today for a two-day h...
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Statistics Canada to report inflation figures for August this morning
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is set to report fresh inflation figures for August this morning. A poll of economists expects the annual rate of inflation was three per cent last month, holding steady from July, according to LSEG Data & Analytics. RBC ...
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Prime Minister Carney to kick off first investment summit in Toronto
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is welcoming the world's investors to Toronto on Monday for a high-stakes summit aimed at attracting new investment to Canada. Hundreds of executives and global asset managers are arriving for Canada's first-ever inv...
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Tech companies are implementing 'age assurance' tech. Here's how it works.
OTTAWA - The federal government has introduced digital safety legislation that would introduce a ban on social media for kids under 16. Big tech companies are already using age assurance technology to estimate users' age. So what is "age assurance"? Ag...
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Google to begin using age assurance tech to identify underage accounts in Canada
OTTAWA - Google is bringing its age assurance technology - which uses artificial intelligence to detect underage users - to Canada. "Our age estimation model uses machine learning to interpret a variety of signals already associated with a user's accou...
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Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada wants 'unique alliance' with EU, not membership
TORONTO - Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is not looking to become a member of the European Union, but is seeking a "unique alliance" with the economic bloc. Carney was asked Sunday about a Wall Street Journal report that suggested he was explor...
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Quebec prayer restrictions reshape rules at transit agency, universities
MONTREAL - Quebec's new restrictions on prayer are changing the rules at public workplaces and university campuses, with employees and students facing new limits on where they can pray. New rules under Quebec's secularism law took effect Sept. 1, inclu...
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'Capital-T tough guy.' Boxing legend George Chuvalo remembered for his resilience
In almost 100 fights, Canadian boxing titan George Chuvalo was never knocked out and never fell to the canvas. A five-time Canadian heavyweight champion and two-time world heavyweight challenger, Chuvalo died Saturday in Toronto on his 89th birthday. A...
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Carney teases economic activity already spurring from investment summit
TORONTO - Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada has an unprecedented opportunity to build up the economy as global investors descend on Toronto for a high-stakes summit. Hundreds of executives and global asset managers are arriving in Toronto for Cana...
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Carney to meet with Macron in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon next week
OTTAWA - French President Emmanuel Macron will meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon next week to discuss energy and defence partnerships. The prime minister's office says Carney will travel to the French territory off the co...
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Céline Dion makes emotional return to concert stage after nearly six years
PARIS - After nearly six years away from the concert stage, Céline Dion returned Saturday night with a fitting message: "On ne change pas"-- we don't change. The Quebec superstar opened her show before nearly 33,000 people at the Plenitude Arena in Nan...
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Groups call for end to tariffs on sports gear, warn of economic impacts
OTTAWA - Some sports organizations and companies are urging governments on both sides of the border to suspend sports-related tariffs, warning of heightened economic challenges and waning participation in healthy activities. The trade war between Canad...
Sep 13, 2026
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Carney to meet UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham for first time
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet his counterpart in the United Kingdom for the first time. The Prime Minister's Office says Carney will meet Andy Burnham in Liverpool during a three-day trip to Europe set to start on Tuesday, and the ...
Sep 12, 2026
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U.S. President Donald Trump tells reporters Canada and Iran both want a deal
DUBLIN - Donald Trump says Canada and Iran have something in common - they both want a deal. The U.S. president, who spoke to reporters Saturday in Dublin before visiting to his golf course in western Ireland, was asked whether he planned to have the U...
Sep 12, 2026
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'Céline is everywhere in my life': Thousands gather in Paris for Dion's big comeback
PARIS - Thousands of Céline Dion fans gathered along the streets of Paris ahead of the singer's comeback concert Saturday evening at the Plenitude Arena. For many, it was a test of patience and determination to get their hands on one of the highly cov...
Sep 12, 2026
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Carney to showcase Canada's capital agenda at first-ever investment summit
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney will gather scores of deep-pocketed investors in Toronto next week in a bid to fix Canada's "Achilles heel" - a persistent lack of business investment dragging down the economy. Hundreds of global and domestic invest...
Sep 12, 2026
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'The Final Act' offers an intimate look at death through people who chose MAID
TORONTO - After filming 69-year-old Céline Carpentier take her final breaths before a medically assisted death, Sophie Deraspe couldn't help but notice, in sharp focus, all the life around her. On the hour-long drive back home, the Montreal filmmaker ...
Sep 12, 2026
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Student's door-to-door Chinese ballads break down barriers, win fans and lamb chops
When Kieran Michael MacNeill started going door to door in Richmond, B.C., serenading householders in Mandarin, he was worried they might think he was a "weirdo." But instead, they embraced the efforts of the 22-year-old student, who spent summer singi...
Sep 12, 2026
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Ottawa begins rolling out long-awaited supplemental funding for national sport groups
OTTAWA - The federal government is rolling out more money for amateur sports organizations and will host a national "playground to podium" summit for stakeholders this fall. Secretary of state for sport Adam van Koeverden announced Friday that Alpine C...
Sep 11, 2026
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Teresa Wat becomes sixth legislator to join new party of former B.C. Conservatives
VICTORIA - The newest member of a still-unnamed party acknowledged she and five other former provincial Conservative legislators are in for the "long-haul" if they want to throw out British Columbia's NDP government, while urging others to join them. T...
Sep 11, 2026
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Ottawa ends permanent residency exemption for refugees with undeclared family
OTTAWA - The immigration minister has quietly ended a policy that helped some refugees sponsor their children or partners for permanent residency, while offering refugee advocates no explanation for the change. The temporary policy allowed certain refu...
Sep 11, 2026
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No need to set time limit for sentencing proceedings, Supreme Court of Canada rules
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says a man is entitled to a reduction in his sentence for sexual assault because the post-verdict sentencing phase of the case took too long. But the top court also says there is no need for a set time limit for det...
Sep 11, 2026
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Conversations on trade with U.S. officials haven't stopped: LeBlanc
BANFF - Conversations between Canadian and American officials have not stopped, even if no formal trade talks are currently scheduled, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Friday. LeBlanc was in Banff, Alta., on Friday for the two-day Libera...
Sep 11, 2026
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Thousands sign petition calling on Edmonton Oilers to reverse Formenton signing
EDMONTON - An online petition calling on the Edmonton Oilers to reverse the signing of Alex Formenton had collected more than 19,000 signatures as of Friday morning. The petition was started by longtime Oilers superfan Mary Loewen, known as "Mama Stanl...
Sep 11, 2026
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Que. party leaders criticize PQ's $130 million sovereignty referendum plan
MONTREAL - Parti Québecois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon came under fire from his rivals on Friday after revealing that his planned sovereignty referendum would cost at least $130 million. While three of the five leaders in the campaign argued that t...
Sep 11, 2026
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In the news today: Gander remembers 9/11, Carney cabinet meetings wrap, TIFF Day 2
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Thousands expected in Gander, N.L., for ceremony marking 9/11 attacks 25 years ago Thousands are expected to fill an arena in central Newfoundland today for a sole...
Sep 11, 2026
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'Canada is everyone, for everyone': Carney meets with Alberta remain campaigners
BANFF - The head of the Forever Canadian group campaigning for Alberta to remain in the federation said Friday Prime Minister Mark Carney has been a "calm" and "reassuring" presence for Albertans. Thomas Lukaszuk, a former deputy premier of Alberta, sa...
Sep 11, 2026
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Sept. 11 first responders tell of Canada-U.S. bonds at B.C. border ceremony
SURREY - New York first responders on Sept. 11, 2001, have spoken of the enduring bonds between Canada and the United States at a ceremony along the border between British Columbia and Washington state to mark the 25th anniversary of the attacks. They ...
Sep 11, 2026
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