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In the news today: Liberals, NDP pass GST bill in House of Commons

In the news today: Liberals, NDP pass GST bill in House of Commons

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed...
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As Australia bans social media for children, Quebec is paying close attention

As Australia bans social media for children, Quebec is paying close attention

MONTREAL — As Australia moves to ban social media for children under 16, Quebec is debating whether to follow suit.
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Liberals, NDP pass bill to enact two-month GST holiday in House of Commons

Liberals, NDP pass bill to enact two-month GST holiday in House of Commons

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.
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Study of 2023 Okanagan wildfires recommends limiting development in high-risk areas

Study of 2023 Okanagan wildfires recommends limiting development in high-risk areas

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.
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Loose wheel from truck crashes head-on into SUV on B.C. highway

Loose wheel from truck crashes head-on into SUV on B.C. highway

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.
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Eliminating B.C.'s open-net fish farms would cost billions, report says

Eliminating B.C.'s open-net fish farms would cost billions, report says

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.
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Outcome remains unclear as final UN plastic treaty talks reaches halfway mark

Outcome remains unclear as final UN plastic treaty talks reaches halfway mark

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.
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Montreal billionaire can't defend from anonymous accusers in sex lawsuit: lawyer

Montreal billionaire can't defend from anonymous accusers in sex lawsuit: lawyer

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.
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Montreal shopping mall playing ‘Baby Shark’ song to prevent unhoused from loitering

Montreal shopping mall playing ‘Baby Shark’ song to prevent unhoused from loitering

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.
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Northern Ontario site selected for nuclear waste underground repository

Northern Ontario site selected for nuclear waste underground repository

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.
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