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Put politics aside and act on online harms, mother of sextortion victim tells MPs

OTTAWA — Parents of children who died because of online sexual extortion are urging MPs to act on online harms legislation.

Dec 5, 2024 5:02 PM Read more >

B.C. premier says feds and premiers have right-left strategy to tackle Trump tariffs

VICTORIA — British Columbia Premier David Eby says his fellow premiers and the federal government have hatched a game plan to fight U.S.

Dec 5, 2024 4:41 PM Read more >

Quebec premier to attend Notre-Dame Cathedral reopening Saturday in Paris

QUÉBEC — Quebec Premier François Legault will attend the inauguration and reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on Saturday.

Dec 5, 2024 4:36 PM Read more >

Quebec police say cutting blood-alcohol limit to .05 would save up to 14 lives a year

QUÉBEC — The Quebec government remained opposed to lowering the legal blood-alcohol limit in the province on Thursday, despite a provincial police study that estimates reducing the limit to .

Dec 5, 2024 4:24 PM Read more >

NASA delays Artemis mission featuring Canadian astronaut to 2026

MONTREAL — Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen's trip to the moon has been delayed once again.

Dec 5, 2024 4:00 PM Read more >

Patrick Brown says foreign interference did not affect Tory leadership race outcome

OTTAWA — Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown said foreign interference did not tip the scales in the Conservative party's last leadership race that installed Pierre Poilievre at the helm.

Dec 5, 2024 3:22 PM Read more >

Poilievre calls on House to back Singh's 'wise' words in no-confidence motion

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he agrees with NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh on one thing: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals are too weak to fight for Canadians.

Dec 5, 2024 2:38 PM Read more >

Five Eyes security agencies send up flare for help on preventing youth radicalization

OTTAWA — Security agencies from Canada and other members of the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance are calling for a "whole-of-society response" to deal with the radicalization of young people lured into violent extremism.

Dec 5, 2024 1:26 PM Read more >

Government asks for third extension on court deadline to pass 'lost Canadians' bill

OTTAWA — The federal government is seeking a third extension to a court-mandated deadline to pass legislation that grants citizenship to "lost Canadians," Immigration Minister Marc Miller said on Thursday.

Dec 5, 2024 12:44 PM Read more >

Former cabinet minister Randy Boissonnault tells committee: 'I am not Indigenous'

OTTAWA — Randy Boissonnault, whose shifting claims to Indigenous identity cost him his job as employment minister, told a House of Commons committee today that he is not Indigenous.

Dec 5, 2024 12:39 PM Read more >