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Even as he faces his own final frontier, 95-year-old William Shatner is in constant motion, burnishing his legacy as one of Canada’s most versatile, consequential — and busiest — entertainers. An actor, author, singer, astronaut and icon, Shatner has more than two dozen events booked through December 2026 in places such as New Orleans, Boston,…

An 86-year-old Sault Ste. Marie woman lost close to a million dollars to a deepfake of Prime Minister Mark Carney she saw on Facebook. She is one of a growing number of Canadians being defrauded by artificial intelligence. Scammers are using AI to fake the faces of people the public trusts, and selling investments that…

When Prime Minister Mark Carney stood alongside Alberta’s premier earlier this month to herald a plan for a new oil export pipeline, the news came with a massive taxpayer-funded caveat. In the absence of a private firm to build the proposed oil corridor, the pair confirmed, the federally owned Trans Mountain Corp. would lead the…

The Ford government said Wednesday Ontario will join the rest of the country’s “passport” system for publicly traded companies, an important and long-awaited step designed to cut business costs and red tape. In doing so, it ends the largest province’s push for a national securities regulator – a matter of disagreement between provinces going back…

Environment ministers from across the provinces and the federal government wrapped up a meeting in Calgary on Wednesday with a message that conservation policies need to be balanced against the need for economic development. The spirit of willingness to accept trade-offs between industry and the environment seemed to differ from Canadian Council of Ministers of…

Toronto Police have “good clear video” of what happened during the shootings at the Salsa on St. Clair festival, according to the city’s Deputy Mayor Mike Colle, who is frustrated police have not released more details about what actually happened. He said he learned this from shopkeepers on the strip of St. Clair Avenue West…

OTTAWA – The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) has unanimously passed a resolution calling on the federal government to criminalize Indian Residential School denialism in Canada. “Yesterday, the chiefs of assembly passed a resolution to address a situation that really needs dire attention,” said Chief Sheldon Kent, from Black River First Nation, who seconded the…

A violent sexual offender who recently transitioned gender from male to female has lost a legal bid to be transferred to a women’s prison. Amanda Joy Cooper, 59, failed to convince Federal Court Justice Janet Fuhrer that the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) was unreasonable in refusing a transfer request last summer. Instead, the CSC…

The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to end the annual practice of springing forward to daylight saving time and falling back to standard time. Instead, the Sunshine Protection Act aims to place most of the U.S. permanently on daylight saving time, except for the few parts of the country already on year-round standard…

Wildfires in Northern Ontario grew so wide and fierce that they turned skies across the province a smoky shade of orange, while a CN Rail train could be seen travelling through a burning, hellish landscape. “This could potentially overtake us here, this has gotten a little scary,” says an engineer in a video taken inside…