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Carney to meet with cabinet, premiers to discuss latest U.S. tariffs
Prime Minister Mark Carney meets with his cabinet and the premiers today, less than a week after U.S. President Donald Trump hit Canada with a baseline 35 per cent tariff. This latest trade war escala...
Aug 06, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks at the Gorman Brothers Lumber sawmill in West Kelowna, B.C. on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Study says ChatGPT giving teens dangerous advice on drugs, alcohol and suicide
ChatGPT will tell 13-year-olds how to get drunk and high, instruct them on how to conceal eating disorders and even compose a heartbreaking suicide letter to their parents if asked, according to new r...
Aug 06, 2025 Chat GPT app icon is seen on a smartphone screen, Monday, Aug. 4, 2025, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Kiichiro Sato)
Prime Minister Mark Carney announces support measures for softwood lumber industry
The federal government is setting up a safety net of loans, product-development grants and market diversification plans for Canada's softwood lumber industry in an effort to shield it from the worst o...
Aug 06, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney greets employees after touring the Gorman Brothers Lumber sawmill and making an announcement, in West Kelowna, B.C., on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Air Canada flight attendants vote in favour of strike mandate
MONTREAL - Air Canada flight attendants have voted to give their union a strike mandate. The Air Canada component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees says members voted 99.7 per cent in favour. ...
Aug 05, 2025 An Air Canada plane takes off from Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in 2024. An overwhelming majority of Air Canada flight attendants voted in favor of a strike mandate. File photo.(THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi)
Ozzy Osbourne died of a heart attack, report says, citing death certificate
LONDON (AP) - Ozzy Osbourne died of a heart attack and had coronary artery disease in addition to suffering from Parkinson's disease for years, his death certificate said. The singer had suffered from...
Aug 05, 2025 Rebecca Strong sat with her proud parents at the homecoming event held for her in Prince Albert. (Nigel Maxwell/ paNOW Staff)
Titan sub disaster was caused by weak safety and oversight, Coast Guard says
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The Titan submersible disaster could have been prevented, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a report Tuesday, but OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush ignored safety warnings, design flaws an...
Aug 05, 2025 This June 2023 United States Coast Guard still frame from video provided by Pelagic Research Services, shows remains of the Titan submersible, center, on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. (U.S. Coast Guard Video courtesy Pelagic Research Services via AP)
Fisheries Department offered support to firm behind doomed Titan submersible
A U.S. Coast Guard investigation into the 2023 sinking of the Titan submersible south of Newfoundland says that Canada's Fisheries Department sent a letter of support to the sub's American owner two y...
Aug 05, 2025 Debris from the Titan submersible, recovered from the ocean floor near the wreck of the Titanic, is unloaded from the ship Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John’s on Wednesday, June 28, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Daly
House committee issues subpoenas for Epstein files, depositions with Clintons and other officials
WASHINGTON (AP) - The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed the Justice Department on Tuesday for files in the sex trafficking investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, part of a congressional probe that law...
Aug 05, 2025 Audrey Strauss, acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, during a news conference in New York on July 2, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
Finance and foreign ministers in Mexico to talk trade ahead of Carney's visit
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand and Finance Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne are in Mexico to meet with President Claudia Sheinbaum to talk economic growth, trade and security. Their trip is h...
Aug 05, 2025 Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand speaks to reporters in The Hague, Netherlands on Tuesday, June 24, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
World nearly beat polio. But fake records, an imperfect vaccine and missteps aided its comeback
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) - For the past decade, Sughra Ayaz has traveled door to door in southeastern Pakistan, pleading with parents to allow children to be vaccinated against polio as part of a global...
Aug 05, 2025 A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child in Karachi, Pakistan, April 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)
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