The City of Pickering is set to vote next month on a secondary housing development plan that could transform the municipality’s landscape east of Toronto over the next quarter-century.

Mayor Kevin Ashe is presenting the move, which could result in the building of homes for more than 70,000 people, as a job creator and key solution to address the housing shortage.

But critics argue the plan to develop the agricultural area is costly and unnecessary, and a local First Nation is sounding the alarm about a

OTTAWA — Children’s advocates will hold a rally and press conference on Parliament Hill Monday to call for online harms legislation that covers AI chatbots and video games.

“Just in recent months, we’ve seen the real escalation of harm that’s happening using AI chatbots,” said Sara Austin, founder and CEO of Children First Canada.

OpenAI banned the mass shooter in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., from using its ChatGPT chatbot due to what it called worrisome interactions, but did not alert law enforcement

OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada will share how it’s thinking about price pressures from the Iran war on Wednesday when it publishes a new monetary policy report and makes its next interest rate decision.

The central bank has held its benchmark rate steady at 2.25 per cent in three consecutive decisions. Most economists aren’t expecting monetary policy-makers will break that streak this week.

Financial market odds for another rate hold on Wednesday stood at over 93 per cent as of Friday, according to LSEG Data

Iran has offered to end its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for the U.S. lifting its blockade on the country and an end to the war, while proposing that discussions on the larger question of its nuclear program would come in a later phase, two regional officials said Monday.

U.S. President Donald Trump seems unlikely to accept the offer, which was passed to the Americans by Pakistan and would leave unresolved the disagreements that led the U.S. and Israel to go to war on

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Technology tycoons Elon Musk and Sam Altman are poised to face off in a high-stakes trial revolving around the alleged betrayal, deceit and unbridled ambition that blurred the bickering billionaires’ once-shared vision for the development of artificial intelligence.

The trial, which is scheduled to begin Monday with jury selection, centers on the 2015 birth of ChatGPT maker OpenAI as a nonprofit startup primarily funded by Musk before now valued at $852 billion.

The trial’s

OTTAWA — A new poll from the Angus Reid Institute suggests Canadians are giving Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government a passing grade in its first year of international relations, but it has failed to meet expectations on affordability issues.

The poll asked 2,013 Canadians a series of questions about the government’s performance since it won the election on April 28, 2025.

Last spring’s election campaign was dominated by the trade war with the U.S. and centred on who was

Premier Doug Ford has quietly apologized to Liberal MPP Stephanie Smyth after he hurled a personal insult towards her during a debate last week in the provincial legislature.

It was during Thursday’s question period about the government’s omnibus budget bill, which includes a law shielding records of the premier, cabinet ministers and their staff from freedom-of-information laws when Smyth asked Ford why a premier who claims to be highly accountable is making it hard to hold him to account.

Ford shot back that the only reason Smyth is

Premier Doug Ford has quietly apologized to Liberal MPP Stephanie Smyth after he hurled a personal insult towards her during a debate last week in the provincial legislature.

It was during Thursday’s question period about the government’s omnibus budget bill, which includes a law shielding records of the premier, cabinet ministers and their staff from freedom-of-information laws when Smyth asked Ford why a premier who claims to be highly accountable is making it hard to hold him to account.

Ford shot back that the only reason Smyth is