Canada’s privacy watchdog has launched an investigation into a reportedly massive Crime Stoppers data breach as police departments across the country have paused accepting tips through the platform. The office of privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne says the probe will look into the cybersecurity incident involving Navigate360, the third-party company that manages the platform used by […]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday he feels “terrible” for honest students caught up in a career college system where financial aid is now unavailable, but opposition leaders say the students are only in that situation because of him. Colleges and Universities Minister Nolan Quinn paused Ontario Student Assistance Program payments at all private post-secondary […]

Havana is urging Ottawa not to drop its public opposition to the decades-long U.S. embargo as Washington ramps up pressure on countries supporting Cuba. “We are confident that Canada will stay with us, as they have done in the past,” Cuban Ambassador to Canada Rodrigo Malmierca Diaz told The Canadian Press. “The blockade and this […]

Culture Minister Marc Miller says while he shares concerns about how long the government’s new digital regulator will take to set up, he’s unable to say exactly when that will happen. In an interview with The Canadian Press, Miller said the government is moving as quickly as possible on digital safety bill C-34, which includes […]

Powerful winds with shifting directions and dry weather contributed to rapid expansion of the grass fire at a military base in Wainwright, Alta., that left four soldiers dead and 39 others wounded, a wildfire expert said. Environment and Climate Change Canada had issued a severe weather alert for swaths of Alberta on Saturday, warning of […]

An Alberta judge has rejected a court challenge to new rules mandating that provincial political parties receive only bare bones information about voters. The Opposition NDP challenged the rules in court after they were implemented last month by Premier Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party government. However, Court of King’s Bench Justice John Gill said in […]

Edmonton mother Salomy Abusalim is running out of excuses to give her son when he asks why his dad is still in Gaza. “This is killing me as a mom. I can’t keep going on, lying to him,” said Abusalim, whose husband has been trapped in Gaza due to bureaucratic difficulties. “My husband was starving, […]

Loblaw Companies Limited’s PC Health launched an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot earlier this month, and the company says it processed more than 100,000 questions in its first week. Called PC Chat, the tool is trained on Canadian clinical sources, ranging from provincial vaccine guidelines to health charities such as Diabetes Canada to health professional associations. Users […]

Quebec’s election oversight body received an influx of complaints after it announced that it was sending unilingual French information guides to all voters ahead of the Oct. 5 elections. Documents released through access to information legislation reveal Élections Québec received 160 complaints over five days after the agency announced the change on its website on […]

CHICAGO (AP) — A third beluga has died at a Chicago aquarium after being rescued this summer from a shuttered Canadian marine park in a complex international operation that moved 30 whales to aquariums in the U.S. and Spain. Osiris, a 26-year-old female whale, died on Monday, Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium said in a statement. The […]

CHICAGO (AP) — Two more beluga whales have died at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, including one that was rehomed at the facility just weeks earlier as part of an international effort to rescue Canada’s last captive whales, the aquarium announced Wednesday. Rain, a 20-year-old female, was the second to die out of a group of four […]

The Federal Court has ordered the release of some long-concealed passages of a 1986 study prepared for a landmark federal commission of inquiry on war crimes. In a new ruling, Federal Court Justice Simon Fothergill directed the government to disclose previously redacted portions of the study on the resettlement of alleged Nazi war criminals in […]