Author Archives: Taylor MacPherson

OTTAWA - The Canada Revenue Agency says it's hiring more staff at its call centres and expanding its use of artificial intelligence as part of a 100-day plan to improve its services. Earlier this mont...

TORONTO - Some doctors and bioethicists are raising concerns about a Toronto hospital's partnership with a company founded by U.S. billionaire Elon Musk. University Health Network announced earlier th...

OTTAWA - Filmmaker and journalist Avi Lewis is expected to officially announce his intention to run for the federal NDP leadership today. Lewis is expected to release a video later today and hold a fo...

MONTREAL - The RCMP say their seizure of $56 million worth of cryptocurrency from an online platform is the largest in Canadian history. The national police force says the exchange platform - TradeOgr...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne says the returns from Ottawa's capital spending plans in the upcoming fall budget will help to pay down the deficit in later years. He tells The Ca...

OTTAWA - The Conservatives have introduced a private members' bill in the House of Commons that would make the murder of an intimate partner a first-degree crime. Conservative public safety critic Fra...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to sign a strategic partnership agreement with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum during his visit to Mexico, which starts today. The agreement will co...

Canada-wide protests are planned this weekend, a coalition of progressive civil society groups say, in what organizers call an emerging "common front" to elements of the new Liberal government's agend...

OTTAWA - A think tank is urging the federal government to abandon plans for a single-payer pharmacare program in the face of tariff-related fiscal uncertainty. Rosalie Wyonch, associate director of re...

OTTAWA - Canada's short-term targets for reducing its emissions are now out of reach after emission levels remained unchanged last year, and recent federal policies have set back Canada's progress, Ca...