Murray Wood: A party 100 years in the making
Murray Wood and a couple of hundred others attended a birthday party on the weekend for a woman who turned 100, and cele...
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Elon Musk's Neuralink brain chip implanted into two quadriplegic Canadian patients
TORONTO - Two Canadian patients with spinal cord injuries have received Neuralink brain implants that have allowed them to control a computer with their thoughts. They are part of the first clinical t...
Sep 05, 2025 Dr. Andres Lozano, right, a neurosurgeon at University Health Network, and his surgical team at Toronto Western Hospital are shown in this handout image on Wednesday Aug. 27, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - UHN / Neuralink
Carney pledges $370M in incentives for canola sector
Prime Minister Mark Carney says the government is launching a new $370 million production incentive to help Canada's canola producers. The government says its new biofuel production incentive is meant...
Sep 05, 2025 David Reid lands his 1957 Helio Courier on a landing strip bordered by his canola crop on the family's farm near Cremona, Alta., on Thursday, July 17, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
David Reid lands his 1957 Helio Courier on a landing strip bordered by his canola crop on the family's farm near Cremona, Alta., on Thursday, July 17, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
Carney delays electric vehicle sales mandate by one year, launches cost review
Prime Minister Mark Carney says the federal government will waive its electric vehicle sales target for 2026 models. The EV sales mandate introduced by the Liberals under former prime minister Justin ...
Sep 05, 2025 An electric vehicle is charged in Ottawa on Wednesday, July 13, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Portuguese investigators search for cause of Lisbon streetcar crash that killed 16
LISBON, Portugal (AP) - Investigators sifted through the wreckage of a streetcar in downtown Lisbon on Thursday, trying to determine why the popular tourist attraction derailed during the busy summer ...
Sep 04, 2025
Suspect in deadly mass stabbing on Manitoba First Nation killed in crash with Mountie
A brother and sister are dead and several others injured, including a Mountie, after a mass stabbing Thursday on a small, tight-knit First Nation northeast of Winnipeg. "I ask the community to pray an...
Sep 04, 2025 Hollow Water First Nation Chief Larry Barker speaks during a news conference at the RCMP Headquarters in Winnipeg on Thursday Sept. 4, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Brittany Hobson
Death toll from Afghan earthquake jumps to more than 2,200
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AP) - Hundreds more bodies have been recovered from houses in mountain villages destroyed by a major earthquake in Afghanistan early this week, pushing the death toll to over 2...
Sep 04, 2025
Carney sending MP Blois to China to help Saskatchewan push back on canola tariffs
Prime Minister Mark Carney's office says he is sending his parliamentary secretary to China to join Saskatchewan's efforts to get Beijing to scrap its canola tariffs and address other "trade irritants...
Sep 04, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives at Elmsdale Lumber Yard with then-agriculture minister Kody Blois during a campaign stop in Elmsdale, N.S. on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
Fashion designer Giorgio Armani dead at 91
MILAN (AP) - Giorgio Armani, the iconic Italian designer who turned the concept of understated elegance into a multibillion-dollar fashion empire, has died, his fashion house confirmed. He was 91. Arm...
Sep 04, 2025 Giorgio Armani receives his share of applause after presenting his Emporio Fall-Winter 2007-2008 men's fashion collection, during the Milan Men's Fashion Week, in Milan, Italy, Monday, Jan. 15, 2007. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)
Champagne says 'adjustments' coming to the public service as Ottawa reviews spending
Finance Minister Francois Philippe Champagne says "adjustments" are coming to the public service as Ottawa looks to trim its spending in the fall budget. Champagne is in the Greater Toronto Area today...
Sep 04, 2025 Minister of Finance and National Revenue Francois-Philippe Champagne speaks to reporters as he arrives at a cabinet meeting on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday, June 19, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle
Prime Minister Carney says he spoke with Trump 'at length' about trade on Monday
Prime Minister Mark Carney says that he spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday evening "at length on a wide range of issues," including trade. The Prime Minister's Office did not disclose on...
Sep 03, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump engage in a meeting at the White House in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, May 6, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
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