Suicide car bomber, militants attack military post in northwest Pakistan, killing 4 soldiers.


The attack took place in North Waziristan, a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban and other militant groups in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, according to the Pakistani military and local police.

Police said the blast caused nearby homes to collapse, injuring civilians.

The military in a statement said all the attackers were killed by troops during the fighting. No group immediately claimed responsibility, but the military blamed the Pakistani Taliban for the assault.

It said the attackers initially tried to breach the post’s perimeter but were repelled. The militants then rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into the outer wall, it said.

The impact of the bombing damaged nearby homes and a mosque, it said.

The military said the attack was planned and directed from across the border in Afghanistan. There was no immediate comment from Kabul, which for years has insisted that it does not allow anyone to use Afghan soil to launch attacks against any country, including Pakistan.

The military said Pakistan expects Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to prevent militants from using Afghan territory to launch attacks on Pakistan.

It added that #Pakistan reserves the right to pursue militants and their facilitators.

A #California fisherman may have broken records by catching a 10.25-pound canary rockfish.

Mendocino County fisherman Brendan Walsh, 26, said he caught the fish Tuesday off the coast of Albion, about 150 miles (240 kilometres) north of San Francisco.

Walsh was headed back with his father Will Walsh after catching a few yellowtail on a cold and rainy day when he decided to make one last stop at a deeper spot. That’s where the younger Walsh landed the canary rockfish.

“It was a fluke,” he said. “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

Canary rockfish can grow up to 2.5 feet (0.76 metres) in length and weigh 10 lbs. (4.5 kilograms), according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Walsh says the ones he usually catches are small and scrawny, clocking in around three lbs. (1.4 kilograms).

Walsh said the fish he caught this week was 2.25 feet (0.68 metres) long.

He submitted the catch to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, which tracks angling and diving records. The current state record-holding fish weighed in at 9 lbs. and was caught last November, also in Mendocino County.

The department has a form and instructions for submitting a possible record catch, including the names and phone numbers of witnesses. Applicants are asked to contact the department for the nearest environmental scientist who can identify the catch.

Walsh said they weighed the fish at an authorized fish market nearby and a state fish and wildlife scientist who works in the area came over to sign off on the paperwork.

Walsh has also submitted his catch to the International Game Fish Association in Florida, where the world record holding 10-pound canary rockfish was caught in 1986. He says larger fish may have been caught but never submitted for record consideration.

The game fish association did not respond Friday to a request for comment.

After spending Tuesday making sure they had taken the right measurements to document the catch, Walsh’s mother, Deirdre Lamb, fried the rockfish with garlic and butter to eat on Wednesday.

The rockfish was delicious, he said.

Janie Har, The Associated Press

#Canada gets further away from reaching 2030 emission target: report


#OTTAWA — A progress report on Canada’s emissions targets shows the federal government’s projection for greenhouse gas emissions in 2030 is higher than it was two years ago.

The 2025 report estimates Canada’s emissions in 2030 will be around 513 million tonnes.

That’s if all planned and announced policy measures are implemented, such as the planned increase in carbon pricing to $170 per tonne in 2030.

The 2023 projection for 2030 emissions, with all proposed regulations in place, was for 467 million tonnes of emissions by 2030.

The most recent projection excludes the proposed oil and gas emissions cap — which would have cut emissions by another three million tonnes in 2030 but won’t be implemented following Ottawa’s memorandum with understanding with Alberta.

Canada’s goal under the Paris climate accord is to cut emissions to no more than 455 million tonnes by 2030, or 40 to 45 per cent below what they were in 2005.

This report by The #Canadian Press was first published Dec. 18, 2025

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Nearly 100-car pileup closes major highway as winter storm hits Alberta. An 80-to-100-vehicle pileup has closed Highway 2 between Airdrie and Calgary in both directions, RCMP said Wednesday afternoon.

Road conditions on central Alberta highways are deteriorating as a large winter storm moves through the province, leading police in several communities to implore drivers to drive carefully or stay off the roads altogether.

Highways and roads surrounding the Alberta capital are covered in snow – including around Barrhead to the northwest, Lamont to the northeast, and Onoway, Spruce Grove and Stony Plain to the west.

Drayton Valley and communities around it about 150 kilometres southwest of Edmonton are enduring the same road conditions.

In north-central Alberta’s Peace Country, between Grande Prairie and Slave Lake and south to Fox Creek, road conditions are much the same.

Drivers are reporting blowing snow, snow drifts and two trucks helping vehicles in ditches on secondary highways and back roads near Spruce Grove and Stony Plain. Drivers also report of blowing, heavy snow on Highway 16 further west around Wabamun, Evansburg and Wildwood.

Michigan man accused of using someone else to impersonate him in DNA paternity test.

According to the Macomb County Prosecutor’s Office, Mark McCraken, 34, of Clinton Township, and Derek Harrison, 36, of Roseville, were arraigned for tampering with evidence. Prosecutors say both men, who are lodged at the Macomb County Jail, have habitual offender fourth offence notices that could result in up to 15 years in prison if convicted.

Prosecutors allege that on Sept. 12, 2025, McCracken used Harrison to sign in as him at the Macomb County Administration Building to submit his DNA for a paternity test.

“The allegations in this matter are truly outrageous. As many know, Macomb County takes matters of child support extremely seriously, and this case will receive the full attention it warrants,” said Macomb County Prosecutor Peter Lucido in a statement.

#Canadian ice dancers Gilles, Poirier just miss podium at Grand Prix Final

Carney expected to unveil agreement with Alberta on new pipeline today.


OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to unveil an agreement with Alberta Thursday which could clear the way for a new oil pipeline in exchange for stronger environmental regulations, while also walking back some of Ottawa’s climate policies.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has said her government has been negotiating with Ottawa a “grand bargain” which would see the proposed Pathways Alliance carbon-capture project move forward alongside a proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast.

Speaking to reporters in Ottawa on Wednesday, Carney said the memorandum of understanding with Alberta “is about much more than one thing.”

“It’s about building this economy, it’s about making Canada more independent, and it’s about making Canada more sustainable,” Carney said, adding there would be “many aspects” to Thursday’s announcement.

Carney has vowed to make Canada an “energy superpower.” Standing in the way of a pipeline to the coast is the tanker ban, a moratorium prohibiting tankers from carrying more than 12,500 metric tonnes of crude oil in areas along the northern coast of British Columbia.

The tanker ban became law in 2019 under former prime minister Justin Trudeau and has been a prime target of the government of Alberta.

B.C. Premier David Eby has called on Ottawa to keep the ban in place. The president of the Coastal First Nations in British Columbia said Wednesday an oil pipeline to the province’s north coast “will never happen.”

Carney and his ministers have maintained no pipeline will go through B.C. without the approval of the province and First Nations.

Carney was asked Wednesday if he told Alberta that Ottawa would end the tanker ban.

“It’s a good question for tomorrow,” Carney said. “I’ll answer it tomorrow.”

Other areas likely to be addressed in the memorandum of understanding include changes to Alberta’s industrial carbon pricing system, which Smith said last month she was open to adjusting.

In September, Alberta announced it would maintain its freeze on the industrial carbon price at $95 per tonne through 2026, putting it out of step with the federal government’s backstop price, which is set to rise to $110 per tonne next year.

Carney and his ministers have for months refused to say whether Ottawa would trigger the backstop on Alberta and on Saskatchewan — which ended its industrial carbon price altogether in April.

The government’s climate competitiveness strategy, released earlier this month with the federal budget, appears to rely heavily on strengthening the industrial carbon price. It also plots a course for the price per tonne beyond 2030 and marks improvements to the carbon markets that underpin the whole system.

Carbon pricing systems like Canada’s industrial version work by capping maximum allowable emissions. Companies that come in under the cap generate credits they can sell to companies that exceed it.

The credits are meant to make it more cost-effective for companies to invest in emissions reduction than to simply buy credits when they exceed the cap — but that means how much the credits can sell for matters.

If the price is too low, there is no incentive to invest instead of buying credits.

The government’s climate strategy also opened the door to ending Ottawa’s emissions cap on oil and gas producers — something Smith and industry representatives have also called on Ottawa to scrap.

Ending the emissions cap is, however, contingent on promised improvements to the industrial pricing system, a scaling-up of carbon capture and storage technology and enhanced regulations to cut methane emissions from the oil and gas sector.

TORONTO — Strong demand among potential homebuyers and built up inventory could pave the way for a sales rebound in 2026 after a roller-coaster year plagued by economic uncertainty.

Re/Max Canada says it expects national home sales to increase 3.4 per cent next year, as it sees “light at the end of the tunnel” following declines in 2025.

Its 2026 housing market outlook report says one-in-10 Canadians plan to buy a home in the next 12 months, half of whom for the first time, while one-quarter say they believe the market in their region will become more affordable.

The report says home sales fell year-over-year in 32 of 38 markets analyzed between January and October.

But inventory has grown as new listings increased year-over-year across all regions, including a 21 per cent increase in Ontario.

Re/Max says this has helped lead to balanced conditions that should entice buyers, with average prices expected to fall 3.7 per cent in 2026.

“Amid looming economic clouds, Canadians are maintaining their interest in home ownership,” said Re/Max Canada president Don Kottick in a news release.

“The resilience that began to emerge in the fall is anticipated to continue into 2026, with first-time buyers in particular finding creative ways to save and enter the market.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 26, 2025.

Carney wraps United Arab #Emirates visit with pledge of $70B to be invested in #Canada.


The announcements come as Carney concluded a visit to Abu Dhabi, which focused heavily on trade amid concerns about the war in Sudan.

“I’m pleased that an agreement valued over $1 billion is in the process of being finalized,” Carney said in a Friday morning speech to the Canada-UAE Business Council.

“(It) will expand critical minerals processing capacity in Canada, creating jobs, boosting (the) long-term supply of minerals essential to energy technologies and advanced manufacturing. More on that soon,” he said.

Carney said that the new project is a matter of economic growth and human development.

“We are a global leader in AI, in quantum and life sciences. And we realize it’s time to begin to commercialize these strengths, for the benefit of humanity,” Carney said.

The prime minister personally invited Emirati investors to visit him in Canada, to help spur more major projects, after announcing this week the signing of an investment-protection pact and the launch of trade negotiations.

“We welcome UAE investors to visit Canada — I will personally host them — to explore investment in Canada’s transformative projects,” he said.

To that end, Carney’s office said Friday that the UAE had agreed to invest $50 billion USD in Canada.

The UAE foreign ministry had not published a notice of the deal, but media reporting suggests the funding will include energy, AI logistics, mining and other strategic industries.

Carney’s office said the funding is part of a bilateral investment framework agreement, and did not indicate what timeline under which the dollars would flow.

His office says the funding is a vote of confidence in the Canadian economy, which has been suffering from the U.S. trade war and productivity issues.

In his speech Friday, Carney said he is “very confident” that Canada and the UAE can more than double trade in less than a decade.

He said Canada and the Gulf nations are aligned as trading nations and energy superpowers who are going green.

“To the uninitiated, Canada and the UAE can appear as different as snow and sand, yet we’re deeply, deeply aligned,” he told investors.

“The level of penetration usage of artificial intelligence is the highest in the UAE and it’s one of the largest and most sophisticated sets of investors in the world,” Carney told reporters.

Carney said that will be a major focus of a trade mission to the UAE next year, along with energy and agriculture. He said the countries are starting “a new chapter” following his visit, the first by a sitting Canadian prime minister since 1983.

He also told reporters that he raised the Sudan civil war with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, whose government denies accusations it is fuelling ethnic violence in that country.

Carney did not specify whether he believes the UAE government or the human-rights groups that accuse it of supporting the Rapid Support Forces militia. But he said the two talked about U.S. President Donald Trump’s attempts at peace in Sudan.

“We did discuss the situation in Sudan,” Carney said, adding that this centred on the so-called Quad process where the U.S., the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are working on “establishing a ceasefire and peace consistent with … the initiative of President Trump.”

Carney’s speech to investors came shortly before he was set to board a flight to Johannesburg for the G20 leaders’ summit.

The Trump administration says it will have no senior American officials present in South Africa, which it accuses of allowing anti-white violence to take place. The South African government says Trump’s views do not reflect crime statistics or reality.

Canada has listed five priorities for the G20 summit: improving critical-mineral supply chains, using AI for sustainable development, preventing wildfires and disasters, reforming global development funding and debt, and advancing gender equality through economic growth.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 21, 2025.

Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press

Calls for justice system reform follow release of man who killed two Indigenous women.

Shawn Lamb pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the 2012 deaths of two Indigenous women — Carolyn Sinclair and Lorna Blacksmith — and was sentenced to 20 years the following year.

Lamb received statutory release earlier this month after serving two-thirds of his sentence.

Offenders serving life or indeterminate sentences are not eligible for statutory release.

Melissa Robinson’s cousin, Morgan Harris, was killed by someone else in 2022, and Robinson says she would like to see consecutive life sentences in any case where someone is charged with multiple counts of homicide.

She says the families of victims must be at the centre of the justice system and killers like Lamb should not be able to return home while the families are left to deal with the fallout.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 17, 2025

With files from Brittany Hobson in Winnipeg

Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press