National News

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed...

MONTREAL — As Australia moves to ban social media for children under 16, Quebec is debating whether to follow suit.

OTTAWA — The Liberals' GST holiday bill is one step closer to becoming law after it was passed by a majority of the House of Commons late Thursday night.

A study into the devastating wildfires that struck British Columbia's Okanagan region in 2023 has recommended that government and industry limit development in high-fire-risk areas.

DELTA, B.C. — Police say an elderly woman has been taken to hospital after a wheel that came off a moving truck's axle crashed into her SUV on a British Columbia highway. BC Highway Patrol says the crash happened just before 11 a.m.

Opposing sides in British Columbia's fractious battle over coastal open net-pen salmon farming are in Ottawa casting for support to either phase out the industry or throw it a life line. Representatives of B.C.

OTTAWA — Canadian negotiators at the United Nations plastic pollution treaty talks in South Korea said Thursday they are working "around the clock" to finalize an agreement, though the process has been predictably difficult.

MONTREAL — Quebec electronics billionaire Robert Miller wants to defend himself against the women who claim he paid them for sex when they were underage, but he can't do that if he doesn't know their names, his lawyer said Thursday.

MONTREAL — A shopping mall and office complex in downtown Montreal is being criticized for using the popular children's song "Baby Shark" to discourage unhoused people from loitering in its emergency exit stairwells.

TORONTO — A region in northern Ontario was chosen Thursday as the site to hold Canada's nuclear waste in a deep geological repository, a critical milestone in a $26-billion, decades-long project to bury millions of used fuel bundles underground.