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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...
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

Gilgeous-Alexander wins Northern Star award as Canada's top athlete
TORONTO - Basketball star Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has won the Northern Star Award as Canada's athlete of the year in 2023. He beat out Edmonton Oilers superstar Connor McDavid, RBC Canadian Open champ...
Dec 11, 2023

Federal sports minister Carla Qualtrough announces safe sport commission
OTTAWA - Canada's sports minister has announced a national commission to address safe-sport issues, but stopped short of calling a national inquiry. Carla Qualtrough unveiled a suite of measures, incl...
Dec 11, 2023

Man imprisoned as teen for flower shop killing is released after judge throws out his conviction
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - A 35-year-old man who was sent to prison for the 2004 killing of a man in a Minneapolis flower shop was released Monday after a judge ruled the eyewitness evidence on which his conv...
Dec 11, 2023

Special counsel asks Supreme Court to rule quickly whether former President Trump can be prosecuted
WASHINGTON (AP) - Special counsel Jack Smith on Monday asked the Supreme Court to take up and rule quickly on whether former President Donald Trump can be prosecuted on charges he plotted to overturn ...
Dec 11, 2023

Blue Jays forced to pivot to other free agents after missing out on Shohei Ohtani
TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays have been forced to pivot after missing out on two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani, who agreed to a US$700-million, 10-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers last week....
Dec 11, 2023

Police violated protesters' rights in Wet'suwet'en pipeline blockades, Amnesty says
VANCOUVER - A report by Amnesty International says police in British Columbia conducted arbitrary arrests and "aggressive surveillance, harassment and intimidation" of First Nations protesters blockin...
Dec 11, 2023

B.C. Lions say coaching staff returning for 2024, Phillips gets assistant coach role
SURREY, B.C. - B.C. Lions head coach Rick Campbell says his entire coaching staff from the 2023 season will return next year. Campbell, who is also the team's co-general manager, also announced that d...
Dec 11, 2023

Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's Rimouski Océanic to host 2025 Memorial Cup
RIMOUSKI, Que. - The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's Rimouski Ocanic will host the 2025 Memorial Cup, the Canadian Hockey League announced Monday. It will mark the return of the CHL championship s...
Dec 11, 2023