December 21st, 2024

National News

Nobel recipient Geoffrey Hinton wishes he thoughts 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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In once tranquil N.S. town, intimidation in the lobster industry now all too common

By Michael Tutton, The Canadian Press on December 8th, 2024

METEGHAN, N.S. – Standing by a bullet hole in his dining room wall, lobster buyer Geoffrey Jobert says such attacks have become an all-too-familiar reality in Nova Scotia’s largest fishery. Overnight on Nov. 23, someone fired a single shot that passed through three rooms in his Mavillette, N.S., home, with the shell ending its journey ... Read More »

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Drought, heat threaten future of balsam firs popular as Christmas trees

By Hina Alam, The Canadian Press on December 8th, 2024

FREDERICTON – University of New Brunswick forestry professor Anthony Taylor was heading down a highway in the spring of 2018 when his wife pointed out clumps of red-coloured trees. Taylor recognized them as dead balsam firs, and so began a research project to examine what was killing the trees favoured by many Canadians to decorate ... Read More »

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Kenya LGBTQ+ activists try switching role of religion from oppression to empowerment

By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on December 8th, 2024

KISUMU, Kenya – Every Sunday in the Kenyan port city of Kisumu, an HIV-prevention group gathers dozens of gay and bisexual men for a service to help maintain their physical and spiritual health. Standing in rows under a tin roof, a group of 50 men sing in Swahili, clapping along to the church service. They ... Read More »

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MP Jamil Jivani meets U.S. vice president-elect amid Trump’s tariff threats

By Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press on December 7th, 2024

WASHINGTON – A Conservative member of Parliament has tapped a longtime friendship to connect with Donald Trump’s inner circle as Canada prepares for the president-elect’s return to the White House next month amid threats of devastating tariffs. Jamil Jivani posted a picture on social media Saturday with vice-president-elect JD Vance and British Conservative Opposition Leader ... Read More »

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Quebec liquor store employees secure new collective agreement after 2-year fight

By The Canadian Press on December 7th, 2024

MONTREAL – Members of a union representing more than 5,000 Quebec liquor store employees have secured a new collective agreement, ending two years of negotiations with the province-owned company. The union says more than 2,300 union members cast their votes on Friday, with 71 per cent in favour of adopting the agreement in principle reached ... Read More »

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Quebec Conservative Party leader hospitalized with heart problem

By The Canadian Press on December 7th, 2024

MONTREAL – Quebec Conservative Party leader Éric Duhaime has been hospitalized with a heart problem. Duhaime says he suffered heart trouble Friday night and his spouse immediately brought him to hospital. The party leader made the announcement on X this afternoon, posting a picture of himself in a hospital bed giving a thumbs up. Duhaime ... Read More »

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Apiaries abuzz over ruling against widening cross-border trade in live honeybees

By Kyle Duggan and Maura Forrest, The Canadian Press on December 7th, 2024

OTTAWA – The dismissal of a class-action lawsuit over rules governing the cross-border live bee trade is casting a spotlight on political division within Canada’s beekeeping community. A federal judge has ruled against awarding commercial beekeepers damages from a decades-old partial ban on shipping live honeybees across the Canada-U.S. border, which is in place out ... Read More »

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LGBTQ+ refugees languish as Kenyan government blocks Canadians from resettling them

By Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press on December 7th, 2024

NAIROBI, Kenya – In a low-income neighbourhood on the outskirts of Nairobi, seven people gather in an air-conditioned home around a dinner table for a Ugandan stew of matoke bananas with peanut sauce. Like many locals, most of them wear beaded bracelets with the flag of Kenya, or of their native Uganda. But Anne, who ... Read More »

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