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New findings by NASA Mars rover provide strongest hints yet of potential signs of ancient life
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has uncovered rocks in a dry river channel that may hold potential signs of ancient microscopic life, scientists reported Wednesday. They str...
Sep 10, 2025

Study estimates 2023 Canadian wildfire smoke caused more than 80,000 deaths globally
VANCOUVER - A peer-reviewed study says smoke from record-breaking Canadian wildfires in 2023 caused an estimated 5,400 acute deaths and about 82,100 premature deaths worldwide. The study published in ...
Sep 10, 2025

One year from election, Quebec premier to shuffle cabinet amid scandals, dismal polls
MONTREAL - Quebec premier Franois Legault is scheduled to announce a major cabinet shuffle on Wednesday, hoping that new blood can help turn around his party's fortunes with the next provincial electi...
Sep 10, 2025

Carney's 1st budget to show Canadians the 'cost to sovereignty': experts
OTTAWA - Fiscal experts say Ottawa will have to be transparent with Canadians in the upcoming fall budget to justify a seismic shift in spending away from government programs and toward defence and in...
Sep 10, 2025

OpenAI argues Canadian news publishers’ lawsuit should be heard in U.S.
OTTAWA - OpenAI is set to argue in an Ontario court today that a copyright lawsuit filed by Canadian news publishers involving its ChatGPT generative AI system should be heard in a U.S. courtroom inst...
Sep 10, 2025

Judge to rule if Vancouver festival attack suspect is fit for murder trial
VANCOUVER - A judge is expected to decide today whether the suspect in Vancouver's Lapu Lapu Day festival attack that killed 11 people is fit to stand trial. Adam Kai-Ji Lo is accused of driving an SU...
Sep 10, 2025

Poland says it shot down Russian drones that violated its airspace during bombardment of Ukraine
WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Poland said early Wednesday that it and its NATO allies had shot down Russian drones that violated Polish airspace in what it called an "act of aggression" as Russia launched aer...
Sep 10, 2025

Trump dines at a restaurant near the White House to promote his DC crime crackdown
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump had dinner Tuesday night at a seafood restaurant near the White House, promoting his deployment of the National Guard and federalizing the police force in an e...
Sep 09, 2025

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu advances in preliminary election in her bid to win a second term
BOSTON (AP) - Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, a frequent target of the Trump administration, advanced in Tuesday's preliminary election in her bid to win a second term, setting herself up as the presumptive...
Sep 09, 2025

Democrat James Walkinshaw wins US House special election in Virginia
Democrat James Walkinshaw, a politician with experience working on Capitol Hill, has won a special election to be the next U.S. House representative of the Virginia district home to the state's most p...
Sep 09, 2025