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209 kilograms of opium smuggled in machinery into Canada, CBSA says
By Canadian Press on December 5th, 2025
BURNABY — The Canada Border Services Agency says its officers seized a shipment of 209 kilograms of opium. A statement Friday says the drugs were detected in a shipping container at the Burnaby, B.C., container examination facility. The agency says the drugs were found in March, wrapped inside an 11,000 kilogram piece of commercial machinery. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!QuickFacts on the Alberta politicians facing citizen recall petitions
By Canadian Press on December 5th, 2025
EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA — Seventeen Alberta legislature members with Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party caucus are officially facing recall petitions from constituents. A recall campaign has also been approved for Opposition NDP member Amanda Chapman. Three more are expected to be named soon. It’s the first time the province’s Recall Act has been used ... Read More »
1 responseCarney, Trump and Sheinbaum talk trade at 2026 World Cup draw in Washington D.C.
By Canadian Press on December 5th, 2025
WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Mark Carney met privately Friday with U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum in Washington, D.C., with no staff in the room. The meeting, which happened at the Kennedy Center following the FIFA World Cup Draw, lasted about 50 minutes. Trump said earlier in the day the three leaders ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Feds to proceed with promised review of firearms classification regime, minister says
By Canadian Press on December 5th, 2025
OTTAWA — Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says the federal government will move ahead with a promised review of Canada’s firearms classification regime that will include consultations with Indigenous communities on the SKS rifle. The classification review, first announced in March, will take a broad view of the legal framework for firearms, ammunition and magazines ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!A quicklist of Frank Gehry’s accomplishments as one of the world’s best-known architects
By Canadian Press on December 5th, 2025
The Toronto-born, Los Angeles-based architect Frank Gehry died on Friday. A titan of his field, here’s a summary of some of the awards and accolades he received over a career that spanned more than half a century: In 1974, he was inducted into the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects. In 1977, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ottawa moving to reissue fishing licences to Mi’kmaw group despite Inuit objections
By Canadian Press on December 5th, 2025
OTTAWA — The federal government says it is proposing to reissue fishing licences to a coalition of Mi’kmaw First Nations in Atlantic Canada, despite objections from Inuit in Nunavut. In 2021, Inuit sued the federal government over its decision to hand over a sizable portion of fishing licences off Nunavut’s coast to the First Nations ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carney, Trump and Sheinbaum meeting at 2026 World Cup draw in Washington D.C.
By Canadian Press on December 5th, 2025
WASHINGTON — Prime Minister Mark Carney is meeting privately today with U.S. President Donald Trump and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, with no staff in the room. Trump said earlier today the three leaders would talk about trade during their meeting at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and that he gets along well with both ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Hundreds of public servants warned this week of job cuts, union says
By Canadian Press on December 5th, 2025
OTTAWA — A federal union says hundreds of workers have been warned they may lose their jobs as the government moves to shrink the size of the public service. The Public Service Alliance of Canada says 219 people at Natural Resources Canada received notices this week saying their jobs might be cut. Another 109 people ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Real or fake? Researchers to develop tool that would help courts spot AI evidence
By Canadian Press on December 5th, 2025
TORONTO — As artificial intelligence makes it easier for anyone to doctor – or even fabricate – videos, photos and other types of evidence, a group of researchers in Canada is aiming to help the courts sort through what’s real or fake. The team, which includes technologists and legal scholars based in universities in Ontario ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Canadian architect Frank Gehry dies at 96
By Canadian Press on December 5th, 2025
Frank Gehry, the Canadian-born renegade architect behind such buildings as the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, has died. Meaghan Lloyd, chief of staff at Gehry Partners, LLP, says he died on Friday morning at his home in Santa Monica, Calif., following a brief illness. More coming. The Canadian Press... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Net-zero advisory body members say Ottawa risks more resignations
By Canadian Press on December 5th, 2025
OTTAWA — The four remaining members of Canada’s independent net-zero advisory body are calling on Ottawa to change how the group functions, and two of them say it risks more resignations if things don’t improve. Two of the founding members of the advisory body resigned this week. They accused the government of not engaging with ... Read More »
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