Canada

Minister mum on confidence in CBC head, says work to find successor begins next year

OTTAWA - Heritage Minister Pascale St. Onge says the government will convene a committee early in the new year to begin searching for a new head of CBC/Radio-Canada. The mandate of the public broadcas...

Dec 12, 2023

Quebec cold case: Man faces first-degree murder charge in young girl's 1994 killing

MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police say they've arrested a 61-year-old prison inmate in the killing of a young girl in a Montreal suburb nearly three decades ago. Investigators say Ral Courtemanche, d...

Dec 12, 2023

Ottawa to launch pre-approved home design catalogue, bring back post-war effort

OTTAWA - The federal government is planning to launch a catalogue of pre-approved home designs to speed up the home-building process for developers. Housing Minister Sean Fraser announced today the fe...

Dec 12, 2023

In the news today: Liberal support sinking as inflation and interest rates rise

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... How inflation, interest rates, tanked the Liberals Experts say the Liberals wil...

Dec 12, 2023

U.S. president not making much fuss over Canada's 3% tax on web giants, Trudeau says

OTTAWA - Canada's tax on Netflix and other foreign digital services companies may be a major irritant for the U.S. tech sector, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it doesn't seem to be much concer...

Dec 12, 2023

B.C. Conservatives awaken from decades in dormancy ahead of 2024 vote

VICTORIA - The first blip on the radar signalling a potentially new player in British Columbia politics occurred in the summer byelection to fill the seat vacated by former New Democrat premier John H...

Dec 12, 2023

Police say person took loaded gun into Ibrahim Ali murder trial: lawyer

VANCOUVER - A lawyer for Ibrahim Ali in his first-degree murder trial says police told him a person close to the proceeding brought a handgun into the Vancouver courtroom on Friday with "intent to kil...

Dec 11, 2023

New N.W.T. premier to focus on emergency readiness, working with Indigenous leaders

YELLOWKNIFE - Few understand better the need for communities to be prepared for weather emergencies and disasters than the new premier of the Northwest Territories. R.J. Simpson, elected premier by fe...

Dec 11, 2023

Tories have 'successfully' scapegoated carbon price in affordability crisis: Trudeau

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Conservative party has been successful at "scapegoating" the carbon price as the reason everything is more expensive. Trudeau says in a year-end intervi...

Sheldon Spackman Dec 11, 2023

AI systems 'can be weaponized,' warns top U.S. cyber official in promoting safeguards

OTTAWA - Top cybersecurity officials are urging technology firms to bake safeguards into the futuristic artificial intelligence systems they're cooking up, to prevent them from being sabotaged or misu...

Dec 11, 2023