Category Archives: Canada
PQ Leader's donations to federal Liberals in spotlight on the Quebec campaign trail
MONTREAL - Federalism was top of mind for party leaders on Wednesday, the seventh day of the Quebec election campaign. Sovereigntist Parti Qubcois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon found himself on the ...
Sep 2, 2026
Ottawa extending gas tax holiday to January
The federal government is extending the suspension of federal fuel excise taxes until the new year to help Canadians feeling the pressure from higher energy costs caused by instability in the Middle E...
Sep 2, 2026 Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne attends a news conference in Ottawa on Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Apple begins replacing Lake Ontario with 'Lake America' on maps app for U.S. users
WASHINGTON - Apple is changing its Maps app to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America" for users in the United States after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an order to change the name of the Great La...
Sep 2, 2026
MP contravened conflict of interest code, ethics commissioner says
OTTAWA - MP Lori Idlout contravened the House of Commons conflict of interest code, Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein announced today. The commissioner's office repo...
Sep 2, 2026
Commander suggests U.S. war on 'Martians' as likely as an invasion of Canada
VICTORIA - A top American military commander on Wednesday suggested the United States is about as likely to invade Canada as it is to launch an attack on Mars. Admiral Samuel Paparo, the head of U.S. ...
Sep 2, 2026
OpenAI faces 30 new lawsuits from witnesses to mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.
VANCOUVER - Artificial intelligence company OpenAI and founder Sam Altman are facing 30 new lawsuits from witnesses to the deadly mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., with plaintiffs including a teac...
Sep 2, 2026
Rabies vaccine operation targets raccoons and skunks in Montreal parks
MONTREAL - Teams of workers will be spreading sweet-smelling baits containing a rabies vaccine through Montreal's parks in the coming weeks, as the province battles the biggest outbreak of raccoon rab...
Sep 2, 2026
Clinical trial patient says ketamine treatment for bipolar depression changed his life
TORONTO - Greg Rennie says his bipolar depression was an eight out of 10 when he went in for his first ketamine infusion in April 2025. He ranked it a zero out of 10 right afterward. Rennie, who has h...
Sep 2, 2026
Élections Québec says it's too late to print voter documents in English
MONTREAL - lections Qubec says it is too late to make changes to the unilingual French documents it is mailing to voters ahead of the Oct. 5 election despite facing backlash from the anglophone commun...
Sep 2, 2026
Ontario student accused in U.S. of taking airport photos for Chinese official
An Ontario university student has been arrested in the United States after allegedly taking photos at two airports at the request of someone he believed to be a Chinese government official. In an affi...
Sep 2, 2026