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Kristie Carrier, a mother from New Brunswick, sued OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, and its CEO, Sam Altman, ​in a U.S. court on Thursday, alleging that the AI chatbot encouraged her daughter to commit suicide. Carrier said in a lawsuit filed in San Francisco state court that her daughter, Alice, told ChatGPT about her suicidal…

The average Canadian household’s net worth topped $1 million in 2025, a 37 per cent gain from 2019, but some are still living on the edge despite being technically richer. “Household balance sheets often look reassuring in the aggregate, and in 2025, Canada’s headline numbers delivered,” Maria Solovieva, an economist at TD Economics, said in…

The New York Times was not kind to BMO Field’s temporary stands, a metal scaffold topped by 17,000 new seats erected for the upcoming FIFA World Cup games in Toronto. When its local staffer attended the May 9 game there between Toronto FC and Inter Miami, he reported back under the headline: “You feel it…

An Indigenous woman from Winnipeg who killed her best friend and roommate in a drunk driving accident three years ago will be allowed to serve her sentence at home, largely because of her racial background and “life circumstances … shaped by a history of trauma and discrimination,” a judge ruled last month. Jayden Starr Okemow,…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Chinese EVs may be coming to Canada, but they might not get you very far south. Michigan Democrats don’t want them crossing the border. Senator Elissa Slotkin and Congresswoman Haley Stevens recently announced their proposed Protecting America from Chinese Cars Act, which aims to block Chinese connected vehicles from entering the U.S.…

OTTAWA — Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne faced pointed questions Thursday over his personal connection to the federal government’s high-speed train plan, with opposition MPs accusing the minister of taking part in more than a dozen votes on the lucrative project after he declared a potential conflict. But Champagne told the House of Commons Ethics Committee…

A growing Canadian store footprint and sales growth fuelled by consumers’ cost of living concerns helped Dollarama Inc. notch a strong first quarter , the discount retailer’s chief executive said Thursday. The M ontreal-based company reported Thursday that sales climbed 21 per cent year over year to nearly $1.85 billion in the first quarter, which…

Hong Kong authorities have laid their first charges following a months-long investigation into the deadliest residential fire in the city’s history. Seven people and two companies have been charged with 25 offences, including manslaughter and conspiracy, over a catastrophic fire that ripped through the residential community of Wang Fuk Court in November, killing 168 people.…

OTTAWA — A Senate committee is recommending that Ottawa take bold action including binding arbitration to ensure that labour disputes no longer disrupt Canadian supply chains, steps that would mark fundamental changes to labour relations in two critical sectors. In a new report released Thursday, the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications concluded that the…

The Haskell Free Library and Opera House on the Quebec-Vermont border opened its new Canadian entrance on Wednesday. The new door opens to Stanstead, Que., while the existing door is in Derby Line, Vt. A black line runs across the floor inside the library to indicate the border between Canada and the U.S. The building,…