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Fact File: Claim Rogers collects biometric data from store cameras unfounded
By Canadian Press on December 31st, 2025
The claim Rogers retail stores used facial recognition on customers through its surveillance cameras appeared on social media in December. Rogers says it does not use the technology at its storefronts and its door screening policy at some locations is meant to ensure staff and customer safety. Stores must follow privacy laws that dictate the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Alberta, Quebec referendums likely would fail due to Canadians’ anxiety: pollster
By Canadian Press on December 31st, 2025
OTTAWA — A pollster says separatist movements in Alberta and Quebec are unlikely to succeed as long as Canadians feel a persistent sense of insecurity and anxiety about the future. David Coletto, whose polling firm Abacus Data has been studying what it calls the “precarity mindset” in Canada for the last year, says that uncertainty ... Read More »
1 responseCRA says it’s owed more than $10 billion in COVID-19 benefit payments
By Canadian Press on December 31st, 2025
OTTAWA — The Canada Revenue Agency says it’s owed $10.35 billion in COVID-19 benefits. Nina Ioussoupova, a spokesperson for the agency, says that as of Nov. 30, it had disbursed $83.5 billion in COVID benefits to Canadians, including $45.3 billion for the Canada Emergency Response Benefit, the financial support program known as CERB. Ioussoupova says ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!List of Order of Canada appointees announced New Year’s Eve
By Canadian Press on December 31st, 2025
The Governor General made 80 appointments to the Order of Canada, including six promotions within in the Order and one honorary appointment. Companions Rosalie Abella, Toronto Simon Brault, Saint-Jean-de-Matha, Que. (promotion within the Order) Raffi Cavoukian, Salt Spring Island, B.C. (promotion within the Order) Shaf Keshavjee, Toronto, (promotion within the Order) Michael James Moldaver, Ottawa ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Jobs, economy top voters’ priorities at the end of a turbulent 2025: Nanos poll
By Canadian Press on December 31st, 2025
OTTAWA — A year-end poll from Nanos suggests jobs and the economy are the top issues on voters’ minds heading into 2026. Just over one in five respondents to the poll published this week said those economic concerns were the most important national issues — more than double the 10 per cent who listed relations ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carney reflects on 2025’s ‘challenges’ in New Year’s Eve message
By Canadian Press on December 31st, 2025
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney says in his New Year’s Eve message that Canada faced “challenges” in 2025 but the country is strongest when it’s united. As Canadians prepare to ring in the new year, Carney says it’s a time to reflect on the moments that brought us joy in 2025 and the people ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Gov. Gen. Mary Simon’s new year’s message to Canadians
By Canadian Press on December 31st, 2025
OTTAWA — Gov. Gen. Mary Simon says she witnessed extraordinary solidarity across the country in the last year in response to wildfires, economic challenges and in advancing Indigenous reconciliation. In a recorded message to Canadians, released by Rideau Hall, Simon says the nation is courageous, inclusive and committed to building peace. She also thanked Canadians ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In the news: Sask. shooting suspects still at large, major watermain break in Calgary
By Canadian Press on December 31st, 2025
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed … RCMP still looking for suspects in Sask. shooting The search continues this morning for a pair of suspects wanted in connection with a deadly shooting on a Saskatchewan First Nation. The RCMP says the shooting happened early ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Increasing AI use in Canadian courtrooms carries risk of errors, penalties: lawyers
By Canadian Press on December 31st, 2025
TORONTO — In the past, if a client who usually preferred to communicate via short emails suddenly sent a lengthy message akin to a legal memo, Ron Shulman would suspect they’d received help from a family member or partner. Now, the Toronto family lawyer asks clients if they’ve used artificial intelligence. And most of the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Northern lights inspire recovery in Telegraph Cove, B.C., year after devastating fire
By Canadian Press on December 31st, 2025
Mary Borrowman says she’ll never forget the moment she and her husband, Jim, watched the northern lights shimmer across the sky on the morning of Jan. 1, 2025, from their home in Telegraph Cove, B.C. “When we looked out our window, and we looked over the water, everywhere you could see in the sky were ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!RCMP still looking for two suspects in Saskatchewan First Nation shooting
By Canadian Press on December 31st, 2025
The search continues this morning for a pair of suspects wanted in connection with a deadly shooting on a Saskatchewan First Nation. The RCMP says the shooting happened early Tuesday morning in Big Island Lake Cree Nation, about 400 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon, which left one person dead and three others injured. No arrests have ... Read More »
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