12 m. ago Vector Institute awards up to $2.1 million in scholarships to Ontario’s top AI graduate students

120 graduate students have been awarded a $17,500 merit-based scholarship from the Vector Institute for the 2025-26 academic year Over 800 students have received scholarships since the Vector Scholarship in Artificial Intelligence (VSAI) program launched in 2018 Since 2018, Ontario organizations have hired over 2,500 Vector-affiliated students from AI Masters programs, including VSAI recipients TORONTO, […]

Economics

31 m. ago LG Electronics to Build $600 Million India Plant Amid IPO Pause

LG Electronics India Ltd. will build its third plant in India, signaling its growth plans in the fifth-largest economy despite deferring its $1 billion-plus public listing in the county.

Economics

68 m. ago Why might papal voting might have taken longer Wednesday evening?

The cardinals have been sworn to secrecy in the centuries-old ritual to elect a new leader of the 1.4 billion-member Catholic Church

Other

72 m. ago Cizzle Brands Announces Launch of CWENCH Hydration™ at Golf Town

The launch of CWENCH Hydration™ at Golf Town, one of Canada’s leading golf retailers, and at prestigious Canadian golf courses nationwide, along with its sponsorship of two prominent Canadian junior golf tours, positions the brand to be the premier sports drink for golfers in the country. TORONTO — Cizzle Brands Corporation (Cboe Canada: CZZL) (OTCQB: […]

Other

83 m. ago NDP faces ’Parliament from hell’ without official party status, says former MP

OTTAWA — The NDP will return to the House of Commons without official party status at the end of May. The last time this happened was after the 1993 election — a time one former New Democrat MP remembers as “the Parliament from hell.” Svend Robinson represented Burnaby, B.C., in the House of Commons from […]

Culture

89 m. ago This pilot is honoured every year in a U.K. town. Will Canada recognize his bravery?

There is a street named after him in a British town. A plaque at the local hospital tells the story of how the 29-year-old pilot saved many lives while sacrificing his own during the Second World War. There are even talks of building a statue of Darlington’s “Gallant Airman” to honour his life and death. […]

Transport

93 m. ago Pasinex Announces Issuance of Failure to File Cease Trade Order

TORONTO, May 08, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pasinex Resources Limited (CSE: PSE) (FSE: PNX) (“Pasinex” or the “Company”) today announced that the British Columbia Securities Commission, as its principal regulator, has issued a Failure to File Cease Trade Order (“FFCTO”) prohibiting the trading of the Company’s securities in Canada, including trades in its common shares […]

Economics

97 m. ago Canada looks again to Europe as world marks 80 years since end of Second World War

OTTAWA — After the Second World War came to a close, Canada pulled itself away from Great Britain and planted itself firmly within a North American political and economic compact that generated prosperity for much of the western world for decades. But as the world marks 80 years since the end of the war in […]

Economics

1 hour ago FIRST READING: Report warns that making nice with Trump is auto sector’s only hope

Despite Carney's 'all in Canada' pitch, sector will be devastated without close ties to U.S. market

Other

2 h. ago Only 7 in 10 Ontario kids vaccinated against measles, rates falling elsewhere. Here’s why

The vast majority of measles cases today are among unvaccinated children and youth, as vaccine hesitancy, and outright refusal, grows

Society

2 h. ago Voting continues on day 2 of conclave as no pope elected in latest ballots

With no one securing the necessary two-thirds majority, or 89 votes, the 133 cardinals returned to the Vatican residences where they are being sequestered.

Other

2 h. ago From Oval Office blowout to landmark minerals deal, how Ukraine’s diplomacy unfolded

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Last fall, weeks before Donald Trump was elected U.S. president, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy floated a pitch that proposed, among other things, an economic deal that would allow Washington access to Ukraine’s largely untapped minerals and deepen strategic ties. Under pressure from Western allies and amid global war fatigue, Zelenskyy saw that […]

Other

2 h. ago Navigating ‘uncharted’ waters: What Trump’s trade war could mean for Canadian ports

Halifax’s container traffic dropped 10 per cent last month, while Vancouver saw a near record number of oil tankers

Economics

2 h. ago No pope elected yet: Black smoke again pours from the Sistine Chapel chimney

With no one securing the necessary two-thirds majority, or 89 votes, the 133 cardinals will return to the Vatican residences where they are being sequestered

Other

3 h. ago ‘At no point was ‘no’ initiated’: Toronto councillor continues testimony at sex assault trial

Thompson, 65, was charged with two counts of sexual assault in 2022 after two guests of his over Canada Day weekend said he touched them inappropriately.

Events

3 h. ago More than half of Canadians say Alberta separation should be taken seriously: poll

While 52 per cent of Canadians think Alberta separation should be taken seriously, 42 per cent think Quebec separation should be taken seriously

Other

3 h. ago Geoff Russ: B.C.’s grand green plans halted by dwindling power supply

Consumers are going to bear the cost of the government's ideological mismanagement of the electrical grid

Other

3 h. ago Soviet space probe might hit Canada after 53 years of trying to reach Venus

It wouldn't be the first time, either. Back in 1978, a Soviet satellite spread radioactive debris across Canada's Far North

Other

3 h. ago André Pratte: Separatism is a strategic weakness for the surging Parti Québécois

The other parties need to take advantage of it before next year's provincial election

Culture

4 h. ago Assaults, bomb threats, Nazi salutes: Canada’s courts are starting to convict those targeting Jews

Three cases in the aftermath of Oct. 7, 2023 have now resulted in convictions.

Events