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The province's police watchdog is investigating after a police officer was shot when a fellow officer opened fire at a man during a mental health call in Oshawa.

The shooting happened near Simcoe Street and Wentworth Street E, Durham Regional Police Service said in a social media post. Police said they were called to the scene for a report of an armed person.

There, they found a 27-year-old man armed with a knife, the SIU said. The man did not appear to have a firearm.

An interaction ensued and one officer discharged their firearm multiple times, striking the man and another police officer, the SIU said.

The first of more than two dozen recall petitions launched against members of Alberta's legislature has come up short.

Jenny Yeremiy submitted her petition against Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides to Elections Alberta on Tuesday, but said she needed thousands more signatures.

She says the campaign collected about 6,500 signatures, well short of its required 16,000.

The petition was launched in October and, if successful, would have forced a constituency-wide vote on whether Nicolaides should lose his seat in the legislature.

There are dozens of staffed military bases and facilities around the Arctic, and hundreds more that include radar installations and other support equipment.

The military buildup at the top of the world began in the Second World War, and then receded as the Cold War came to and end. But in the past ten years, with climate change accelerating and Russia waging war in Europe, the Arctic has been re-militarizing.

A huge amount of Arctic territory belongs to Canada, but its military presence pales in comparison to other Arctic nations. Here’s what the military picture looks like:

Canada

• There are currently eight staffed military sites in Canada’s Arctic, the largest of which is in Yellowknife.

Greenland

• There are only three military bases in the territory, the biggest of which is the U.S. Pituffik Space Base (formerly known as Thule Air Base).

The U.S.

• The only part of the U.S. that's in the Arctic is Alaska, and that’s where all ten of its domestic northern military facilities are.

Russia

• The biggest military player in the Arctic is definitely Russia. Currently there are estimated to be between 30 and 40 staffed military facilities in the country’s north.

The Calgary man accused of tunnelling into his upstairs neighbour’s apartment ran his own criminal trial Monday.

Ben Maize is charged with mischief, and break and enter.

In the summer of 2025, Maize and his neighbour Betty Golightly lived in the same condo building in the southwest community of Coach Hill.

Golightly testified that she arrived home on Sept. 5 to find her apartment locked from the inside, then discovered holes in the drywall near her fireplace that appeared to lead to a tunnel to the unit below.

Public servants with Global Affairs Canada (GAC) who have been teleworking full-time for the past several years from cities such as Montreal are now being required to work in offices in the National Capital Region.

The workers were hired before or during the COVID-19 pandemic to work remotely, and some say they’re being forced to resign because they can't relocate.

"I’m angry," said one employee in French whose identity Radio-Canada agreed to protect because they fear reprisal from the employer.

Like others who spoke to Radio-Canada, the public servant said their family and personal circumstances make it difficult for them to move to the Ottawa-Gatineau region, nor can they commute there three or more times a week.

Thaioronióhte Dan David, a renowned Kanien’kehá:ka journalist who helped establish the news department of the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network, has died.

His sister Marie David said he died Jan. 12 after a long struggle with cancer. He was 73.

Pugliese said David helped found APTN News in 2000 — then called InVision News — to transform the way Indigenous stories are told. He witnessed news reports of his own community of Kanehsatà:ke, in southwestern Quebec, being distorted by mainstream media during the siege of Kanehsatà:ke, commonly referred to as the Oka Crisis, in the summer of 1990.

"Some of his family were involved in the land protection there at the time when the army came in. And there was Dan, with all the sources and all the connections, and he wasn't allowed to report on it because he was considered biased," Pugliese said.

Soon after, David was asked by his boss and mentor at CBC to help launch the South African Broadcasting Corporation in post-apartheid South Africa.

"In South Africa, he was working with journalists from all walks of life, including those who had been on opposite sides of the apartheid years. He was very affected by that," Pindera said.

That experience gave him the tools and knowledge to establish APTN's news department.

An independent police watchdog says it is investigating the death of a man shot and killed by RCMP responding to a domestic disturbance in Neqotkuk First Nation in northwestern New Brunswick early Sunday evening.

Investigators are now in the community, formerly known as Tobique, about 180 kilometres northwest of Fredericton, the Serious Incident Response Team said Monday afternoon.

Neqotkuk First Nation Chief Ross Perley and council have identified the victim as community member Bronson Paul — "a son, father, brother, partner, nephew and so much more."

"We understand that our community members are angry, confused, scared and shocked. We share that sentiment," they said in a news release on social media late Sunday night, about an hour after the watchdog agency, known as SIRT, announced the fatal "police-involved shooting."

Premier Doug Ford says Prime Minister Mark Carney's deal with China on electric vehicles has hurt Ontarians and the two have not spoken since.

Ford says he was disappointed Carney did not give him a heads-up about a potential deal before the prime minister's trip to China last week.

Carney struck a deal with China last week to allow up to 49,000 electric vehicles to receive a vastly reduced tariff rate of 6.1 per cent as they come into Canada in exchange for dropping tariffs on Canadian canola and some seafood.

Ford and Carney became fast friends after the latter's win to become prime minister in the spring.

The Supreme Court of Canada is hearing arguments today on a Quebec case that could have far-reaching implications on policing across Canada.

Quebec’s attorney general is set to argue against a lower court decision that invalidated random police traffic stops, finding that they led to racial profiling and violated Quebecers’ rights.

Joseph-Christopher Luamba, the young man at the origin of this case, was pulled over by police nearly a dozen times without reason in the 18 months after he got his driver’s licence.

He told Quebec Superior Court in 2022 that when he sees a police cruiser, he gets ready to pull over.

Luamba, who is Black, said he believes he was racially profiled during the traffic stops — none of which resulted in a ticket.

"I was frustrated," he told the court back then. "Why was I stopped? I followed the rules. I didn't commit any infractions."

An Ontario woman who regularly shared her experiences as a sexual assault survivor at police training courses says she’s ending her relationship with the Ontario Police College and is raising concerns about what she and several experts say are harmful biases among some officers and a lack of accountability from the college.

It comes after she received anonymous comments from two officers last year that she says left her feeling "mortified" and "humiliated."

For several years, she has volunteered her time by speaking at training organized by the college for sexual assault investigators. CBC News is protecting her identity because she is a sexual assault survivor.

Experts say the comments, which include calling her “damaged,” accusing her of being too critical of police and presuming a mental illness diagnosis, are not only hurtful but also show a concerning bias that could affect the integrity of sexual assault investigations.

The woman wants to know if those officers are working as sexual assault investigators, but more than four months after taking her concerns to the college, she still has no answers.

Manitoba RCMP are investigating after a seven-year-old girl was coerced into sending nude photos to a man over Snapchat — an example of what experts and police warn is a growing trend of children under 13 being sexually exploited through social media.

The images and videos being sent through the online messaging app were discovered after the girl's mother went into the child's room. The girl quickly put down a cellphone when her mother came in, according to a production order document obtained by CBC.

When the mother became suspicious and took the phone, she learned the girl had been chatting with an older man.

The mother found pictures of a penis within those chats and contacted RCMP. She gave them the phone for analysis, according to the document.

Police say they found explicit conversations over Snapchat between a man from the United Kingdom and the seven-year-old, as well as images and video shared between the two.

Canada’s federal government is facing fresh scrutiny over its handling of air passenger rights after internal records suggested ministers and senior officials delayed and undermined a plan that would have shifted the cost of processing passenger complaints from taxpayers to airlines.

The proposal, developed by the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) following a 2023 directive from Parliament, would have required carriers to pay a fixed fee for each eligible complaint resolved, effectively funding a national reporting and redress system for disgruntled travelers.

Instead, nearly 100,000 passengers remain stuck in a growing backlog and taxpayers continue to shoulder an annual bill of about 30 million Canadian dollars for a system critics say is buckling under its own weight.

At the heart of the uproar is a letter sent by then-transport minister Anita Anand, who assumed the portfolio after the initial design of the cost-recovery plan. In that letter, Anand asked the CTA to delay any decision on imposing the airline fee until she had been formally consulted, arguing that she had not been adequately brought into the loop on the details of the proposal. The agency had previously briefed her predecessor, Pablo Rodriguez, during the plan’s development, but Anand insisted that was not sufficient.

“Notification to the previous minister is insufficient,” Anand wrote, according to excerpts reported by Canadian outlets. She requested that the CTA “refrain from implementing any decision on the fee” until she could review and provide input, effectively putting the brakes on a process that had been advancing in line with Parliament’s instructions. For a regulator already struggling with skyrocketing complaint volumes, the pause added further delay to a reform intended to stabilize its resources and clear the queue.

Additional emails from senior Transport Canada officials amplified the pushback. Officials raised concerns about the potential impact of the 790 dollar fee and its uniform application across all eligible complaints. Industry stakeholders had already warned that such a structure could be punitive and might encourage what airline executives described as frivolous or opportunistic claims. As these concerns filtered through the department, the CTA found itself navigating not only external lobbying but also internal pressure that appeared to conflict with its statutory duty to implement Parliament’s will.