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Health Canada has launched a new voluntary registry that will allow patients and health-care professionals to receive direct alerts about breast implant recalls and safety issues, but some patient advocates and medical professionals say it doesn't go far enough.

Bowen Byram and Ryan McLeod scored on consecutive power-play opportunities in reviving Buffalo's anemic special-teams unit, and the Sabres defeated the Montreal Canadiens 4-2 in Game 1 of their second-round playoff series on Wednesday night.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans was able to assess the animal for injuries on Tuesday.

It's unknown how many people may have been able to access an online database with the personal information of millions of Albertans. The CEO of a domestic violence organization in Calgary calls the situation "disturbing" and says it puts victims at risk.

Anthropic on Wednesday said it reached a deal to tap the computing resources of Elon Musk's SpaceX, marking a détente with its one-time critic and ‌a boost for both companies in the high-stakes artificial intelligence race.

Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree is facing mounting calls — including from the maker of the iPhone — to amend his lawful access bill amid concerns it will weaken digital encryption and introduce cyber-vulnerabilities.

Japanese news media reported that Honda Motor plans to indefinitely halt the development of its $15-billion electric vehicle complex in Canada, though Honda Canada said they had nothing to report at this time. Ottawa acknowledged automakers face "significant challenges," but did not say whether the company had updated them on those plans.

Hoping to see the Stanley Cup return to the country, Canadian fans from other teams are shifting their allegiance to the Montreal Habs, the only team north of the border that advanced to the second round of the NHL playoffs.

Bell parent BCE said the employees were let go for “clear violations of our code of conduct” following an internal review.

The Andes hantavirus, identified aboard the MV Hondius, can spread through person-to-person contact. The ship is now headed to the Canary Islands.

The Carney government is being pulled in opposite directions on the industrial carbon price anchoring its delayed agreement with Alberta, with environmentalists looking for a quick ramp up and the industry arguing any carbon price is too steep.

Canada is willing to let foreign investors buy stakes in Canadian airports, Prime Minister Mark Carney suggested Wednesday, as the federal government considers trying to raise money to fuel its economic growth agenda through the privatization of public assets.

The artificial intelligence company behind the hugely popular ChatGPT collected "vast amounts" of Canadians' personal information and failed to obtain appropriate consent for doing so, a three-year probe from four Canadian privacy watchdogs has found.

Nate Erskine-Smith is accusing Liberal staff from the Ontario legislature of working for a key rival in a heated race for the party's nomination to run in an upcoming Scarborough Southwest byelection.

Facing mounting pressure to stop the looming expansion of medical assistance in dying for mental illness alone, the Carney government is refusing to outline its plans.

A council committee on Wednesday approved spending $54 million more over the next three years to haul snow from city streets.

The suspect, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, is facing multiple charges.

Azuri Bacchas was just four months old. On Wednesday, his mother was found not criminally responsible for murder due to her schizophrenia.

The repositioning of the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle and its escorts comes as part of a proposed French-British mission

Epstein’s former cellmate claimed he discovered the note after the incident in July 2019

U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick appeared Wednesday before a House committee investigating sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, trying to explain to lawmakers his contact with the financier after Epstein's 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from an underage girl.

A luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak left for Spain's Canary Islands on Wednesday after three people, two of them seriously ill, were evacuated, a Reuters witness said. While many residents say they fear its arrival, public health experts are urging calm.

The U.S. and Iran are speaking with each other, around each other and past each other

Russia’s participation in the first Biennale since the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine led to Russian punk group Pussy Riot and members of Ukrainian feminist organization FEMEN rushing the exhibition area.

Elon Musk sued OpenAI in 2024, seeking $150-billion on the grounds that it improperly became a for-profit company

Ted Turner, the brash sportsman and entrepreneur whose ambition and instincts led to a media empire that included groundbreaking news network CNN, has died, CNN reported on Wednesday citing a press release from Turner Enterprises. He was 87. This report produced by Freddie Joyner.

The Foreign Ministry says Moscow would retaliate if Ukraine attempted to disrupt Russia’s May 9 commemorations

The battle to see who runs in the fall is heating up. Here are six things to know

Airbus says the agreement with the low-cost Malaysian airline marks the largest single firm order for A220 planes in the Quebec-based manufacturer's history.

'It’s very much a response to the many attacks against Mexico from Trump,' the club's owner said in an interview with The Guardian.

The World Health Organization has identified the Andes strain of hantavirus, which can be transmitted from person to person, in passengers who were on the cruise ship.

The Chinese minister’s comments followed an earlier statement by U.S. President Donald Trump that he was pausing his effort to guide stranded vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment for further detail on the progress in negotiations that Trump mentioned.

Blown-out walls, columns, and a collapsed roof left the site in ruins, people trapped without access to exit routes and at risk from further explosions.

An emergency response team was deployed after a bystander reported a vessel in distress near the South Ballina break wall in northern New South Wales.

A World Health Organization official said that the cruise stopped at several islands off the coast of Africa, some of which 'have a lot of rodents.'

Photos from the scene showed a car with a battered front and a shattered windshield after the incident, which killed two people and seriously injured three others.

Iran’s chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf accused the U.S. of undermining regional security with the effort to end Iran’s hold on the strait, warned Tehran will respond.

Three people with possible symptoms of the disease were evacuated on Wednesday morning from the MV Hondius before it headed to the Canary Islands.

Candidates debated housing and insurance policy in the first half, then furiously attacked one another at the end.

For the NATO deterrent to work, Europe and Russia both have to believe that America is coming.

Polls predict historic losses for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour Party on Thursday as anti-immigrant Reform U.K. makes gains, and a new era of multiparty politics takes shape.

Local elections in England, and parliamentary elections in Scotland and Wales, take place on Thursday. The governing Labour Party is expected to do very badly.

Bond investors are expected to scrutinize the results of critical local elections on Thursday as the war in the Middle East adds inflation pressure on the government.

The war in Iran has left China’s neighbors appealing for help, handing Beijing the kind of sway it has long sought.

The commerce secretary appeared for hours in a closed-door session on Wednesday with the House Oversight Committee

A federal judge released the note, which Jeffrey Epstein’s former cellmate said he found in a graphic novel. The New York Times has not authenticated that Mr. Epstein wrote it.

The ruling is the latest in a saga driven by President Trump’s desire for redemption in the state, which he lost in 2020. The county is likely to appeal.

Norway's Equinor told CNBC that the company expects the Iran war to deliver a boost to its transition industries.

Oil prices rose Thursday, as investors continue to assess the latest developments in the Middle East amid concerns over renewed tensions between Iran and the U.S.

The benchmark Nikkei 225 surged over 5% to a record high as Japan reopened after extended Golden Week holidays.

Social media influencers are urging consumers to read labels and pushing traditional companies to make healthier products or risk being replaced by newer entrants.

Asia-Pacific markets jumped, shrugging off renewed tensions in the Middle East.

The U.S. and Iran are close to a memorandum of understanding that would end the war and establish a framework for further negotiations, Axios reported.

China called for a "prompt resumption of shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz," though that point was absent in Iran's statement.

At Anthropic's developer conference in San Francisco, CEO Dario Amodei said the company is 'working as quickly as possible' to provide additional compute.

Uber said its net income took a $1.5 billion hit in the first quarter of 2026 due to the revaluation of the company's equity investments.

Stocks rose and oil prices plunged on news reports signaling the U.S. and Iran could soon strike an agreement to end the war.

The airstrike on the Haret Hreik neighborhood targeted the leader of the Radwan forces, Hezbollah’s elite and battle-hardened fighting unit, Israeli authorities said.

As talks continue and proposals are exchanged, Washington and Tehran still disagree on what has been agreed.

More than 140 people remain on the Hondius, which will take about three days to reach the Spanish archipelago for screening. A local official has criticized the plan.

It’s the third consecutive month that multiple models have predicted that a potentially record-breaking El Niño could drive global temperatures to new highs.

The criticism of the pontiff’s stance on Iran highlighted what Vatican officials have described as an unprecedented low in relations with the United States.

Ilya Remeslo was put in a psychiatric hospital after criticizing Vladimir Putin. Now free, he said that he will not stop his crusade against the Russian president.

A cluster of cases aboard the ship off Cape Verde may be linked to a type of hantavirus found in Argentina that can spread from person to person, the World Health Organization said.

Iran’s foreign minister warned the U.S. should be wary of being dragged into a “quagmire” after tensions flared in the Strait of Hormuz.

The president has repeatedly suggested that the conflict was nearing a conclusion while simultaneously escalating threats against Tehran.

A letter from 30 lawmakers calls on the U.S. to expose Israel’s weapons program, which it doesn’t acknowledge and was built in secret beginning in the late 1950s.

A BBC Sport investigation finds misleading adverts for fitness apps that use AI-generated instructors to make exaggerated claims.

A serving officer and four former officers are being investigated over the handling of reports against the businessman.

They do not have symptoms and health officials say the risk to the general public remains very low.

The Andes strain of the virus, which can rarely be passed from person to person, has been confirmed in some passengers.

Mediator Pakistan says it is "endeavouring to convert this ceasefire into a permanent end to this war".

The media mogul pioneered the modern 24-hour news culture when he launched the Cable News Network in 1980.

Filming is scheduled for autumn later this year and will likely adapt the second book in JK Rowling's series, The Chamber of Secrets.

The man sued his tour operator for allowing people to reserve sun loungers with towels despite a hotel ban on the practice.

The feud has fuelled a costly showdown between two tech titans.

The road crossing is the latest sign of the deepening relationship between Pyongyang and Moscow.

Fall frequency found to have dose-response relationship with dementia risk

Russian foreign ministry urges countries with diplomatic missions in Kyiv to treat warning seriously

The couple could have contracted the virus while on a tour in Argentina, officials have said

The Spanish government sparked a furious backlash after saying that the virus-stricken MV Hondius would dock in Tenerife by the end of the week. Islanders tell Graham Keeley that the arrival of the ship evokes memories of the pandemic in 2020

The sickness starts with symptoms including a fever and chills and can quickly become life-threatening

Husam Zomlot, Palestine’s new ambassador to London, talks of his childhood in Gaza and calls for mass non-violent protests and South African-style sanctions against Israel with Sam Kiley in the World of Trouble podcast

With just one day to go until the crucial local elections - where the Green Party is expected to make significant gains - Labour has accused Mr Polanski of not being straight with the public

Authorities are searching the home connected to the man convicted of killing 19-year-old college student Kristin Smart in 1996

Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson says US proposal is still being considered

The governing party could see its worst-ever results on 7 May, experts have warned