Carney visiting Qatar to drum up investment despite 'brutal' human rights record
sootoday - OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Qatar to drum up investment deals with a country known for both its brutal dictatorship and its growing diplomatic and economic influence.
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NASA readies for historic Artemis II flight around the moon
Ivan Semeniuk / theglobeandmail - Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen and crewmates will be first to travel beyond low Earth orbit in half a century
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Ashley St. Clair sues Elon Musk’s xAI over AI-deepfake images
Katie Scott / globalnews - St. Clair claims that Grok 'created and disseminated altered, deepfake content' of her on the social media platform X 'in sexually explicit poses.'
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X outages reported by tens of thousands of users worldwide: Downdetector
Globalnews Digital / globalnews - X, formerly Twitter, was down for tens of thousands of users worldwide on Friday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
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Battery believed to have caused Edmonton apartment fire that displaced dozens
Karen Bartko / globalnews - A fire that forced dozens of residents from an Edmonton apartment building and sent two people to hospital is prompting renewed warnings about lithium-ion battery safety.
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Sick astronaut returns to Earth with crew in NASA’s 1st medical evacuation
Globalnews Digital / globalnews - It was an unexpected finish to a mission that began in August and left the orbiting International Space Station with only one American and two Russians on board.
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Elon Musk’s X facing Canadian privacy probe over sexualized deepfake images
Alex Boutilier / globalnews - The Elon Musk-owned company announced Wednesday it would restrict AI chatbot from 'nudifying' images of real people in certain jurisdictions.
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Rogers to spend $50M to address excessive screen time among teens and tweens
Hannah Alberga / nationalobserver - Rogers Communications says it is investing $50 million over five years to address the excessive time teens and tweens spend on screens.
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Canadian agencies embrace AI tools to defend national security
Jim Bronskill / nationalobserver - The national spy watchdog is reviewing the use and governance of artificial intelligence by Canada’s security agencies.
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Quebec Superior Court approves class action against Ticketmaster over service fees
sootoday - MONTREAL — The Quebec Superior Court has authorized a class-action lawsuit against Ticketmaster that accuses the American company of charging abusive service fees on ticket sales.
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Suspect in Desjardins data leak involving 9.7 million members arrested in Spain
sootoday - MONTREAL — Quebec provincial police say a suspect in a major data leak at Desjardins was arrested in Spain in November 2025.
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New Ontario online courts portal brings delays and ‘snafus,’ Toronto lawyers say
Lucas Casaletto / citynews - A new online portal meant to streamline access to Ontario’s court system is leaving some lawyers grappling with unpredictable delays and facing new hurdles in managing their cases, they say, months after the platform’s initial rollout. The Ontario Courts …
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Elon Musk’s Grok accused of producing sexualized AI images of women, minors
theglobeandmail - Chatbot says images of ‘minors in minimal clothing’ were the result of lapses in safeguards
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Increasing AI use in Canadian courtrooms risks errors, penalties: lawyers
Paola Loriggio / nationalobserver - In the past, if a client who usually preferred to communicate via short emails suddenly sent a lengthy message akin to a legal memo, Ron Shulman would suspect they’d received help from a family member or partner.
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Paraplegic engineer becomes the first wheelchair user to blast into space
Globalnews Digital / globalnews - A paraplegic German engineer fulfilled a lifelong dream Saturday, floating in space after launching aboard a Blue Origin rocket, calling it the "coolest" experience of her life.
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Carney has sketched the broad strokes of an AI policy, but details remain vague
News Staff / citynews - OTTAWA — At the Paris AI Action Summit in February, then-prime minister Justin Trudeau and other world leaders watched as U.S. Vice President JD Vance took the stage to rail against AI regulation. Vance’s speech — delivered with his face projected on a la…
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Feds defend $1.1-million Deloitte contract for AI advice after the firm admitted mistakes
Sarah Smellie / nationalobserver - The federal government is defending its decision to award a contract worth up to $1.1 million for advice on deploying artificial intelligence to a Canadian branch of Deloitte, a global consulting firm that is under fire for AI-related blunders.
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Federal government funds four quantum computer developers, aiming to keep them in Canada
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Federal government buying six Bombardier jets for RCAF in $753-million deal
Jacob Serebrin, Montreal Gazette / montrealgazette - The company assembles the Global 6500 in Mississauga, Ont., and completes them in Dorval.
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Ontario to open interim science centre next summer at Harbourfront Centre
Globalnews Digital / globalnews - Ontario is set to open an interim science centre next summer on Toronto's waterfront, two years after the province abruptly closed the old location in the city's east end.
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