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Liberals win Terrebonne rematch after previous one-vote victory overturned
TERREBONNE - Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste won the Terrebonne riding north of Montreal for the second time in a year Monday after her one-vote victory in 2025 was overturned by the courts. With all ballots counted, she led with 48.4 per cent of the...
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Yukon mine in 2024 failure will discharge treated water in preparation for snow melt
WHITEHORSE - The Yukon government says the mine where a catastrophic storage failure in 2024 led to cyanide-soaked ore contaminating groundwater is now preparing to discharge some treated water in anticipation of the spring snowmelt. The government say...
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One year of salmonella pistachio outbreak as cases reach 189
TORONTO - The Public Health Agency of Canada says its investigation into a salmonella outbreak linked to pistachios is still active one year since recording the first infection. An update Monday by the agency shows people are still getting sick with il...
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Canadian banks, regulators discussed Mythos AI, minister to meet with Anthropic
OTTAWA - Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon said he will meet with senior leadership from Anthropic this week in response to global concerns about the company's new AI model. Solomon told reporters Monday that departmental officials would me...
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Pause of Indigenous rights act won't be confidence vote, B.C. election prospect fades
VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby said he may extend the current legislative session to find support among individual First Nations over his plans to suspend parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. "Even now, we ar...
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Ontario family mourns Canadian man killed in Israeli attack in Lebanon
A Canadian man who lived in Windsor, Ont., was killed last week by Israeli forces outside the family's home in southern Lebanon, his family says. Mohamad Hussain Haidar says his 38-year-old brother Hassan Haidar went to Lebanon in November to be with h...
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TKMS latest to team up with Quebec steel firm in sub competition
OTTAWA - German submarine maker TKMS is teaming up with a domestic steel-forging company as it vies for a lucrative contract to supply the Canadian navy with new submarines. TKMS says it inked a partnership with the Quebec-based forged-steel manufactur...
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B.C. health officer Bonnie Henry is disappointed by reversal of decriminalization
VICTORIA - Politicians and health experts are looking back at the successes and mistakes made during in the decade of a public health emergency into the toxic drug crisis in British Columbia. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Monday that...
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With elections near, Quebec premier-designate under tight deadline to revive CAQ
MONTREAL - Christine Fréchette, newly elected Coalition Avenir Québec leader and premier-designate, has a bit more than five months to revive her party before the provincial elections, and to define herself in a crowded political field. Her election ov...
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B.C. challenge to Catholic hospital's 'traumatic' denial of MAID enters closing phase
VANCOUVER - Allowing publicly funded faith-based health-care providers to impose religious beliefs on patients, including those seeking medical assistance in dying, is a breach of the British Columbia government's "basic duty" to remain religiously neu...
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Coercive control law will help survivors, but comes with risk of backlash, MPs told
OTTAWA - Groups representing women's shelters are praising the government's move to criminalize coercive control, but some women's organizations are also warning there is a risk of backlash. Bill C-16, which was introduced last year, would outlaw engag...
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Tears and pride as Lapu Lapu survivors gather at community dinner before anniversary
VANCOUVER - After Lapu Lapu attack survivor AJ Sico sang the national anthem from his wheelchair in a Vancouver banquet hall, he was met with a standing ovation - a fitting tribute, his family says, to his stubbornness and resilience. Sico, fellow surv...
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Clean energy groups call for East-West grid connections, investments in renewables
OTTAWA - A coalition of clean energy groups is calling on Ottawa to connect the country through a grid powered by renewable energy. The David Suzuki Foundation says Canada is facing an energy affordability crisis, while demand for energy is set to expa...
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Ontario man convicted in immigration investigation into Banff-area hotels
CALGARY - A man from Ontario has pleaded guilty in Alberta to two counts of unauthorized employment of foreign nationals and fined $70,000 in case involving the hospitality industry in Banff National Park. A joint investigation between the Canada Bord...
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Brent Cotter, ethics expert and former senator, named interim head of RCMP watchdog
OTTAWA - The Liberal government has named well-known legal ethicist and former senator Brent Cotter to be the interim head of the RCMP watchdog. Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said Cotter will become chairperson of the Civilian Review and C...
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Jobs minister urges youth to pursue skilled trades despite generational stigma
OTTAWA - Canada must break the stigma around careers in the skilled trades if the Liberals want to achieve their infrastructure and homebuilding agenda, federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu said on Monday. Hajdu said that when she was growing up in Thunde...
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Hootsuite founder Ryan Holmes is back as interim CEO, replacing Irina Novoselsky
The CEO of Hootsuite has stepped down after spending the last several months defending a contract between the company and a controversial U.S. government department, making way for the firm's founder to return on an interim basis. Irina Novoselsky's de...
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NDP pushing for ban on AI surveillance pricing as Lewis makes Parliament Hill debut
OTTAWA - The NDP is expected to introduce a motion on Wednesday calling on the government to ban a practice known as surveillance pricing that New Democrats say is unfair to consumers. The text of the motion describes the practice as companies using a...
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Carney welcomes Hungary vote that shifts stance on Ukraine and democracy
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney welcomed Hungary's shift toward support for both Ukraine and liberal democracy on Sunday after voters in the European nation ended 16 years of far-right government. After Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban concede...
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In the news today: Byelections, Quebec premier, N.S. strike, New cancer study
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed: Voters head to the polls in federal byelections expected to hand Liberals majority Voters head to the polls today in three federal byelections widely expected to gi...
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Christine Fréchette to be sworn in as Quebec premier after winning CAQ leadership
QUÉBEC - Quebec will soon have a new premier after former cabinet minister Christine Fréchette was elected leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec on Sunday. She is to be sworn in on Wednesday, and will name a new cabinet next week. The legislature ret...
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B.C. First Nation asks UN body to count cultural losses in spill compensation formula
VICTORIA - An international group that sets the compensation formula for maritime oil spills doesn't factor in the devastating cultural losses to First Nations, says an Indigenous leader whose Coastal B.C. nation has experienced a disastrous fuel spill...
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Axworthy, Rock call on foreign affairs minister to do more to safeguard arms exports
OTTAWA - Former senior Liberal cabinet ministers say they have "deep concern" about the federal government's decision not to pass legislation aiming to close what they consider a regulatory gap in arms exports. Former Liberal foreign affairs minister L...
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Liberals set to form historic majority government after sweeping three byelections
OTTAWA - It took nearly a full year and a handful of byelections and defections for Prime Minister Mark Carney to assemble enough members of Parliament to turn his minority government into a slim majority - a feat that has never happened in Canadian po...
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Montreal streetcar tracks still pop up from pavement decades after last tram retired
MONTREAL - These days, the only place you'll find a working Montreal streetcar is at the Canadian Railway Museum south of the city. But each year, the spring thaw that cracks up the asphalt on city streets unearths pieces of a public transit past tha...
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Young adult cancer survivors at higher risk of getting another cancer later, study says
TORONTO - Cancer experts say a new study highlights the need for more support and screening of people who survived cancer as adolescents and young adults as they face an increased risk of getting cancer again later. Senior author Miranda Fidler-Benaou...
Apr 13, 2026
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Katy Perry shares photos of Justin Trudeau at Coachella
Katy Perry is sharing more photos of her boyfriend, former Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau, after the pair attended the Coachella music festival this weekend. The pop star shared snaps of the couple to Instagram eating food and walking around t...
Apr 12, 2026
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Finnish President Alexander Stubb to meet with PM Carney in Ottawa this week
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet in Ottawa this week with Finland's President Alexander Stubb, in a visit that will mark the first official bilateral meeting between the two leaders. Carney's office says Stubb will be in Ottawa on Tuesday ...
Apr 12, 2026
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