December 21st, 2024

National News

In the news today: Government faces third Tory non-confidence vote

By The Canadian Press on December 9th, 2024

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Government faces third Tory non-confidence vote The Liberals are set to face a third Conservative non-confidence vote today, but the government is likely to survive with the support of the NDP. Members of Parliament are supposed to vote ... Read More »

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The Canada Post strike involving more than 55,000 has hit 25 days

By The Canadian Press on December 9th, 2024

The Canada Post strike involving more than 55,000 workers has hit 25 days. In a statement Sunday, Canada Post says it is awaiting a formal response from the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to the proposal it submitted to the union Friday. In a Friday statement, the union said it was reviewing what Canada Post ... Read More »

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Government faces third Tory non-confidence vote ahead of potential fiscal hurdle

By David Baxter, The Canadian Press on December 9th, 2024

OTTAWA – The Liberals are set to face a third Conservative non-confidence vote today, but the government is likely to survive with the support of the NDP. Members of Parliament are supposed to vote on a motion that quotes NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s criticism of the Liberals and asks the House to agree with Singh ... Read More »

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BoC expected to lower interest rates again, with odds leaning toward larger cut

By Nojoud Al Mallees, The Canadian Press on December 9th, 2024

OTTAWA – Financial markets and forecasters are betting on another jumbo interest rate cut from the Bank of Canada this week. Statistics Canada’s latest job report tilted expectations in favour of a larger cut. The Friday report revealed the unemployment rate jumped to 6.8 per cent in November, up from 6.5 per cent a month ... Read More »

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French-speaking LGBTQ+ activists want Canada to do more to address funding gap

By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on December 9th, 2024

DOUALA, Cameroon – LGBTQ+ activists across francophone Africa say Western governments and global foundations are ignoring funding gaps for French-speaking countries where repression differs from English-speaking regions. Last year, the Global Philanthropy Project reported that just one per cent of global LGBTQ+ funding between 2013 and 2020 had been focused on francophone countries. It’s a ... Read More »

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Police search for three men who escaped from immigration holding centre in Quebec

By The Canadian Press on December 8th, 2024

MONTREAL – Authorities are searching for three Chilean nationals who escaped from the Laval Immigration Holding Centre north of Montreal. Canada Border Services Agency says arrest warrants have been issued for Bryan Ulises Moya Rojas, Diego Nicolas Flores Sepulveda and Daniel Eliseo Gonzalez Ihrig after they left the facility Saturday night. The men are 30, ... Read More »

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Trudeau says fall of Assad ‘ends decades of brutal oppression’ for Syria

By The Canadian Press on December 8th, 2024

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a new chapter for Syria can begin that’s free of terrorism and suffering for its people. In a social media post on X on Sunday, Trudeau said the fall of the Assad dictatorship “ends decades of brutal oppression.” Syrian President Bashar Assad fled the country on Sunday and is now ... Read More »

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Nobel recipient Geoffrey Hinton wishes he thought of AI safety sooner

By Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press on December 8th, 2024

Geoffrey Hinton says he doesn’t regret the work he did that laid the foundations of artificial intelligence, but wishes he thought of safety sooner. The British-Canadian computer scientist often called the godfather of AI said over the weekend that he doesn’t have any guilty regret, which he said is when someone has done something when ... Read More »

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Border control and tariffs: Quebec Premier François Legault meets Trump in Paris

By The Canadian Press on December 8th, 2024

Quebec Premier François Legault says he met U.S. president-elect Donald Trump in Paris and they discussed border control and a proposed tariff on Canadian goods. Legault posted a photo on social media of himself shaking hands with Trump during his visit to the French capital for the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral. Trump has promised ... Read More »

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Updated advisory urges Canadians to avoid all travel to Syria, leave if possible

By The Canadian Press on December 8th, 2024

Ottawa is urging Canadians to avoid all travel to Syria and to consider leaving the country if it’s safe to do so. An updated travel advisory is warning people to avoid the Middle Eastern country due to what the Canadian government calls “ongoing armed conflict, terrorism, criminality, arbitrary detention, torture and forced disappearance.” The update ... Read More »

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Understanding the science behind Hinton and Hopfield’s Nobel Prize in physics

By Tara Deschamps, The Canadian Press on December 8th, 2024

British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton and co-laureate John Hopfield are set to receive the Nobel Prize for physics on Tuesday in Stockholm. The pair landed the accolade because they used physics to develop artificial neural networks, which help computers learn without having to program them. These networks form the foundation of machine learning, a computer ... Read More »

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