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[published_date] Connor McDavid felt what it meant to be an Olympian as he looked around at Canada's broader hockey team. The Edmonton Oilers' captain was among 92 NHL, women's and Para hockey players summoned to a three-day orientation camp in Calgary to prepare for 2026 Winter Games in Milan and Cortina, Italy. "Being here with…

[published_date] A couple who moved to the West Dalhousie, N.S., area this year and are about to welcome their first child are among the people who've lost their homes to the out-of-control Long Lake wildfire. While the total number of homes destroyed by the fire in Annapolis County is not yet known, owners of confirmed losses are being…

[published_date] The Lindsay, Ont., man charged in an early-morning break-in last week wielded a crossbow in the incident and was out on probation at the time, according to court documents filed Wednesday. The violent episode on Aug. 18 — which led to charges laid against both the alleged intruder, Michael Kyle Breen, and the home's…

[published_date] Two boaters are missing after a canoe capsized on Upper Kananaskis Lake in southern Alberta on Tuesday. Cochrane RCMP and Kananaskis Emergency Services responded to a report of two missing boaters around 4 p.m. on Tuesday, after a canoe with four occupants flipped over. Bystanders, using boats and paddle boards, were able to rescue…

[published_date] Canadian romance author Carley Fortune has announced that her fifth novel, Our Perfect Storm, will be published on May 5, 2026. The novel centres around best friends Frankie and George. When Frankie is dumped on the morning of her wedding, George convinces her to take him on her Vancouver Island honeymoon instead. Frankie and George have…

[published_date] The parents of a teen who died by suicide after ChatGPT coached him on methods of self harm sued OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday, saying the company knowingly put profit above safety when it launched the GPT-4o version of its artificial intelligence chatbot last year. Adam Raine, 16, died on April 11…

[published_date] Canadian Tooling and Machining Association members are hopeful that military contracts will bring opportunities for some manufacturing companies looking to diversify away from the auto sector amid the ongoing trade war with the United States, according to the association's head Louis Jahn.  In response to Prime Minister Mark Carney's pledge of an extra $8.7 billion earmarked…

[published_date] Past and present P.E.I. premiers and current federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre were among the mourners who gathered in Tignish Wednesday for the funeral of former Egmont MP Gail Shea. Shea died on Aug. 21 at the age of 66, leaving a large circle of relatives and friends in western Prince Edward Island and…

[published_date] Canada's privacy commissioner says individuals have the right to have some information de-listed from search engine results but Google is refusing to comply. The commissioner's office says Google won't implement a recommendation to de-list specific articles in the search results for an individual's name. The federal privacy commissioner recommended Google de-list articles about a…

[published_date] Paul Gray says at first, when he saw something black lying on his lawn Sunday in Nova Scotia, he didn't know what it was. He'd already noticed flurries of grey and white wildfire ash falling from the sky, but was curious about the black object, so went over to take a look. There, lying on straw-like…

[published_date] Montreal police have arrested a 39-year-old man in connection with two recent incidents outside Hampstead town hall, in which the Israeli and Hampstead flags were set ablaze. The first incident happened on Aug. 22, and the second a few days later on Aug. 25. According to Montreal police, there was no damage to the building…

[published_date] Music-streaming giant Spotify announced today that it's rolling out direct messages to both free and premium subscribers as part of an effort to attract more users. Spotify is gradually introducing the feature on mobile devices to users above the age of 16 in select markets, a company spokesperson told CBC News in a written statement.…