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Spread of AI videos on YouTube worries child development experts and advocates who are calling for changes A screenshot taken from a colourful online video aimed at young kids features trains and a jaunty song about learning letters. It also includes classic signs of being AI-generated, like some of those …

Takeoff distance for Bombardier 650 Challenger at full capacity longer than most runways in province Ontario Premier Doug Ford speaks with reporters before attending an event in Ottawa on Monday. Ford says he has committed to sell the $28.9-million private jet the Ontario government purchased. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)  UPDATE: Ontario …

Documents obtained by CBC show government imagines 700 units at Kingston Penitentiary An apartment building stands in the background behind a guard tower and barbed wire at Kingston Penitentiary in April 2026. The infamous prison was added to the Canada Public Land Bank last January, meaning it could be developed …

Current advisory board was struck by former prime minister Justin Trudeau Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to name a new advisory council on Canada and U.S. trade on Tuesday, according to two sources familiar with the matter. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)  Prime Minister Mark Carney will name a new advisory …

‘Government did not have a role in drafting any maps,’ Smith says Premier Danielle Smith is rejecting claims her government is trying to redraw Alberta’s electoral map to favour the governing United Conservatives. (Amber Bracken/The Canadian Press)  Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is rejecting Opposition accusations that her United Conservatives are pulling …

Autopsy shows bacterial blood infection but no infection source that led to sepsis Heather Winterstein, 24, died on Dec. 10, 2021, after seeking helping in the St. Catharines, Ont., hospital’s emergency department two days in a row. She collapsed while waiting for a doctor and died of sepsis hours later. (Submitted …

Celebrated general is a reminder Canada has beat the Americans and ‘can do it again’: official A painting depicts the death of Maj.-Gen. Sir Isaac Brock at the Battle of Queenston Heights during the War of 1812. (C.W. Jefferys/Government of Ontario Art Collection)  Prime Minister Mark Carney stunned some Canadian historians …

Scales of justice rule in favour of sport fisher who challenged 3-year bans from R.M. of Alexander Aaron Wiebe, pictured here in 2022, has successfully challenged an effort by the Rural Municipality of Alexander to ban him from attending council meetings. (Aaron Wiebe/Facebook)  A judge has told a municipality in eastern …

Devices were installed to strenghen security measures following a stabbing at the Halifax hospital last year A look at some of the weapons found by scanners at a Halifax hospital  After a stabbing last year, Nova Scotia Health installed devices at the Halifax Infirmary to prevent people from entering the …

March’s 21.2 per cent monthly increase in the price of gasoline was the largest on record A man fuels up at a gas station with a price of 204.9 cents per litre in Surrey, B.C., on March 13. The soaring cost of gas fuelled by war in Iran sent Canada’s …