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OTTAWA — Google is raising "serious" concerns about a Liberal bill that seeks to require tech giants to pay media outlets in exchange for putting their news content online.

MONTREAL — A 45-year-old Quebec father was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday after two of his children were killed in the family home north of Montreal.

OTTAWA — The national public health agency is preparing for "worst-case scenario" COVID-19 variants that can evade immunity, Canada's top doctor told members of Parliament Tuesday, as early signs point to a fall resurgence of the virus.

Canada has announced new funding to help launch a series of satellites that will help monitor and respond to climate change.

An analysis suggests Canada is using questionable methods to dramatically underestimate greenhouse gas emissions from the forestry industry, which it says equal those from Alberta's oilsands in some years.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia should be well into its rainy season, but instead, persistent hot and dry weather has created drought conditions. Here are some of the numbers connected with the drought: --- Recorded rainfall between July and Oct.

OTTAWA — A new research report says federal cybersecurity legislation is so flawed it would allow authoritarian governments around the world to justify their own repressive laws.

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Oct. 18 ... What we are watching in Canada ...

OTTAWA — An inquiry into the federal government's use of the Emergencies Act to clear the "Freedom Convoy" protest in February is hearing first-hand testimony from top government and police officials.

HALIFAX — A high-profile ally of former U.S. president Donald Trump is at the centre of an academic controversy at the University of New Brunswick, where the administration has promised an independent review of how he received a PhD in 2013.