A lot of Canadians turning to chatbots for election information don’t always get accurate responses, a Parliamentary committee heard today.

rime Minister Mark Carney will “play an active role” in setting the agenda for Ottawa’s new AI advisory council.

OTTAWA — Quebec correspondent "Geneviève Tremblay" — who has been reporting on multiple news stories a day lately — seemed to be experiencing a glitch.

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OTTAWA — Warnings about the risks AI poses to humans have triggered a heated global debate over the past week. The heads of some of the biggest AI companies in the world are calling for action — somet...

The federal artificial intelligence minister said the government is closely following the situation at Anthropic after a researcher who resigned from the company Tuesday said people in the industry fe...

OTTAWA - The federal broadcast regulator says it will go ahead with the process to put rules in place around Canadian content on streaming services, after such efforts played a

New child protection measures Meta has promised as part of a massive legal settlement in the United States won’t be implemented in Canada.

OTTAWA — The French language and Quebec and Canadian culture might be trade irritants for the Americans but in Canada they are fundamental rights, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday.

Dalhousie University associate law professor Michael Karanicolas says a Charter challenge to Canada’s law is almost inevitable.

U.K., France, Australia among other countries that have introduced age restrictions to social media access

OTTAWA — A document prepared for the federal artificial intelligence minister to use when pitching international investors on Canada’s AI ecosystem identifies a massive proposed increase in Canada’s d...

OTTAWA - Canada should dust off its sequins and get ready to dazzle Europe, a historian said Thursday after the country took a major step toward joining the Eurovision song

OTTAWA — News and cultural industry groups are calling on the government to take a stand on how AI systems use copyrighted content after Ottawa’s long-awaited national AI strategy failed to address th...

OTTAWA — The federal government wants to be “super careful” as it tackles surveillance pricing, Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon said after tabling the government’s new privacy bill. Unde...

After launching an investigation in January to examine the proliferation of sexual deepfakes on X, Canada's privacy commissioner says Grok's AI image generation tool was launched without adequate safe...

Ottawa says it will direct the CRTC to review its recent decision tripling streamers’ financial contributions to Canadian content.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney told Pope Leo XIV Canada wants to lead internationally on responsible AI. The Prime Minister’s Office says Carney talked to the pontiff today about artificial intel...

OTTAWA — The Conservatives are calling on the Liberal government to “reject” the CRTC’s recent decision tripling streamers’ financial contributions. The broadcast regulator said last week large online...

That’s three times the 5% initial contribution requirement the CRTC set out in 2024, which is being challenged in court by major streamers including Apple, Amazon and Spotify.

The federal budget watchdog says Canada will spend just over $1 billion to host the World Cup this summer.

OTTAWA - The federal government's promised new national AI strategy will consider the technology’s impacts on the labour market, Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon said on Monday.

OTTAWA — The federal government is not responding directly to a Toronto city council motion opposing the presence of any U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at upcoming FIFA World Cup game...

OTTAWA — The Canadian TV show about two professional hockey players who fall in love reflects Canadian values in a world where LGBTQ rights are under threat, Prime Minister Mark Carney said.

Jacob Tierney and Brendan Brady co-created "Heated Rivalry," the Canadian TV show that has become a global phenomenon in recent weeks.

TORONTO - If you jumped on the recent social media trend of posting photos or videos of memories from 2016, experts say artificial intelligence likely thanks you.

The federal government agreed to set aside its decision ordering the wind-down of TikTok’s Canadian operations.

OTTAWA — Canada must act to retain its international leadership in AI research in the face of a worldwide race for talent that’s reached a “fever pitch,” the country’s national AI institutes warned th...

OTTAWA — The federal government is set to launch its new national artificial intelligence strategy soon — but critics say it hasn’t done enough to listen to Canadians and pollsters are warning that a ...

OTTAWA — The Liberal government’s legislation to criminalize sexual deepfakes would not cover most of the images that have proliferated on X in recent weeks, a law professor said. Suzie Dunn, an assis...

OTTAWA — Advocacy groups for women and children say a wave of sexual deepfakes on the social media platform X proves the government needs to create an online regulator. “This highlights the need for r...

The platform, which is owned by Elon Musk, has been embroiled in controversy over sexualized deepfakes of women and children created by X’s chatbot Grok.

Carney's new Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon came to office vowing that the government wouldn’t "over-index" on AI regulation.

Carney's new Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon came to office vowing that the government wouldn’t "over-index" on AI regulation.

Artificial intelligence is likely to take up much of the agenda as industry, digital and technology ministers from the world’s most powerful Western countries meet in Montreal this week.

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney named Montreal MP Marc Miller as the new minister of Canadian identity and culture on Monday, in a small cabinet shuffle to fill holes

OTTAWA — The long-standing video service providing Canadians with direct coverage of political events says a recent CRTC decision puts its operation at risk. CPAC says the move by the broadcast regula...

OTTAWA — An Ontario court has decided a copyright lawsuit filed by Canadian news publishers against OpenAI will proceed in that province. OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, had put forward a jurisdic...

OTTAWA — Meta has been lobbying the federal government for new rules to implement age verification at the app store level — which would put the burden on companies like Apple and Google, not individua...

OTTAWA - A coalition of child advocates and medical organizations says the dangers children face online constitute a national emergency.

OTTAWA — The federal broadcast regulator has released a new definition of Canadian content — and it says artificial intelligence can't qualify.

More than two-thirds of younger Canadians engage with political content from influencers — and influencers have significantly more reach on five major social media platforms than news media outlets or...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government’s plans for CBC/Radio-Canada include looking at getting Canada into the Eurovision international song contest.