For Whitcomb, the nods mark a striking JUNO Awards debut, propelling the rising artist into top categories alongside some of the country’s most established names. Where it All Begins: Honouring Music TeachersMusiCounts, Canada’s music education charity associated with CARAS/The JUNO Awards, also announced the five nominees for the MusiCounts Teacher of the Year Award, presented by Anthem Entertainment. The 55th annual JUNO Awards Broadcast will take place in Hamilton at TD Coliseum on Sunday, March 29, 2026. For more information on the JUNO Awards or The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS), please visit www.junoawards.ca. For The 2026 JUNO Awards, Insight Co-Chief Content Officer Lindsay Cox serves as EP, Showrunner & Creative Producer alongside Insight’s Chair, CEO, and Executive Producer John Brunton.

The United States could alter its decades-old North American Aerospace Defense Command deal with Canada should its government backtrack on the purchase of 88 Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets, the U.S. ambassador to Canada has warned. In the latest back-and-forth between the U.S. and Canada over the deal, Ambassador Pete Hoekstra cautioned that if Canada purchased fewer fighter jets, the U.S. would “fill those gaps” in security concerns. That could mean the U.S. would need to purchase more F-35 fighter jets for its own use and use them to intervene in Canadian airspace more frequently. However, Hoekstra indicated U.S. intervention would go even further, should the fighter jet deal change, thus requiring new terms to the Cold War-era agreement. Now, Canadian officials are reportedly looking to other countries to supply it with fighter jets, including Saab, the Swedish aerospace and defense company that creates the JAS 39 Gripen E fighter.

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OTTAWA — Federal Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree says there are no plans to change the budget available for firearms owners eyeing compensation for turning over their prohibited weapons. The Liberal government has earmarked spending $250 million to pay firearms owners who hand over one or more of the 2,500 makes and models of guns it has banned since 2020. Some firearms groups that fiercely oppose the policy have voiced concerns that firearms owners may not receive proper compensation under the program. “I know some people are saying, especially those who oppose this program are saying, there’s not enough money. Advertisement AdvertisementAdvertisement AdvertisementUnder the program, firearms owners have until the end of March to submit their declarations should they seek compensation.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney told reporters on Tuesday he stands by his recent Davos speech that implicitly criticized the United States, after U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent told Fox News the prime minister walked back his remarks while speaking to the U.S. president. “I said this to the president, I meant what I said in Davos,” said Carney. “I explained to him our arrangement with China,” said Carney. On Saturday, Trump threatened a 100 per cent tariff on Canadian goods if Canada moved forward on a free trade deal with China. Trump also referred to Carney as “Governor Carney” in the social media post.

A Vancouver man has been charged in relation to a fatal stabbing near Vancouver's Commercial-Broadway station on Jan. 20, according to police. Police said Christopher Jumal Sanderson, 48, died in hospital following the stabbing near East 10th Avenue and Commercial Drive that dayIt was the city's first recorded homicide of 2026, the Vancouver Police Department said in a statement. Now, 22-year-old Quoc The Cathedral Dang has been charged with one count of second-degree murder in relation to the incident. "The arrest was made following the execution of a search warrant at a home near Commercial Drive and East 13th Avenue on [Jan.] 24," a statement from police said. Officers had responded to reports of a stabbing around 8:40 p.m. on the day of Sanderson's death.

Doctors later told him devastating news: he had inoperable Stage 4 lung cancer and only 12 to 14 months to live. Radon-induced lung cancer kills an estimated 3,200 Canadians each year , and lung cancer, in general, remains the deadliest type of cancer in Canada, even as smoking rates have dropped dramatically in recent decades. The timing is crucial, as Canadian medical teams are “now seeing a shift in more and more never-smokers developing lung cancer,” she said. and Ontario have permanent lung cancer screening programs to catch cases early on — with narrow eligibility that includes moderate or heavy smoking. Expanded cancer screenings across the country could help catch more lung cancer cases early before it’s too late, Kelly said.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is dismissing a claim that he walked back the remarks he made in Davos, Switzerland, last week during a conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday. "To be absolutely clear, and I said this to the president, I meant what I said in Davos," Carney said Tuesday on his way into a meeting with his cabinet. WATCH | 'I meant what I said': Carney says he told Trump in call: 'I meant what I said in Davos' | Duration 1:42 Prime Minister Mark Carney says he spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump on a call Monday about everything from Ukraine and Venezuela to Arctic security. He spoke to Prime Minister Carney, who was very aggressively walking back some of the unfortunate remarks he made at Davos," Bessent said. Carney has not issued readouts for every conversation he has with Trump, or other leaders, since coming to office.

That was Toronto in January 1999, and to most people who experienced it, it was entirely too much snow. That day, as a storm dropped more snow on the city, 400 soldiers arrived from Petawawa to help with snow removal. Toronto mayor Mel Lastman had called them in, drawing ridicule from many people in other cities across wintry Canada. Fast forward to 2026, and Toronto is once again buried after a monster storm dumped snow across the region. On Monday, Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow told a news conference they had 600 plows on city roads and sidewalks.

One reason why you might be paying more for groceriesNewsDuration 3:15Why are grocery prices so high? One factor may be property controls — a powerful tool that big groceries can use to block competition and control local markets across Canada. Marketplace breaks down how it works and why it can take a toll on your wallet.

It is not a coincidence that U.S. President Donald Trump's latest tariff threat against Canada came just ahead of negotiations on renewing North America's main free-trade pact, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Monday. Trump said earlier this month the trade deal was "irrelevant" to him. Despite the president's angry social media outbursts over the weekend, Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said he had a cordial and lengthy phone conversation with Trump's trade czar on Sunday. WATCH | Canada reminds U.S. it didn't make free-trade deal with China: Carney links Trump’s jabs, tariff threats to CUSMA talks | Duration 2:01 Prime Minister Mark Carney tied U.S. President Donald Trump's recent tariff threats and personal jabs against him to the upcoming CUSMA negotiations, saying they should be viewed in that 'broader context.' CUSMA has shielded Canada and Mexico from the worst impacts of Trump's tariffs.

Trump signals change in Minneapolis after 2nd fatal shootingNewsDuration 2:42U.S. President Donald Trump signalled a shakeup in Minnesota by changing who’s in charge of immigration and customs enforcement operations in the state. The move comes after a second person, Alex Pretti, was killed by federal agents.

Was Alex Pretti a 'would-be assassin’? We break down the footage of fatal ICE shooting | About ThatNewsDuration 13:01U.S. government officials say ICE agents fatally shot Alex Pretti at a protest in Minneapolis because he had a gun on his person and, according to U.S. President Donald Trump's homeland security adviser Stephen Miller, was a 'would-be assassin.' Andrew Chang breaks down several video angles of the shooting, moment by moment, to understand how accurate the government's initial account is. Images provided by The Canadian Press, Reuters and Getty Images

Public schools in Nova Scotia were closed Tuesday and flights delayed out of Halifax's airport as a long-lasting winter storm brought more snow to the province. All of Nova Scotia had been under an Environment Canada snowfall warning, but by afternoon it only applied to Cape Breton. Most Nova Scotia Community College campuses were either closed, or delayed in opening. “There's going to be a lot of cars in the compound, I guess,” he told CBC Radio’s Information Morning Cape Breton. Mikela Sani Routledge, a spokesperson for the Halifax International Airport Authority, said a quarter of flights scheduled at Stanfield between 8 p.m. Monday and 8 p.m. Tuesday had been cancelled.

The fight to keep ICE tracking apps onlineNewsDuration 5:15Users say ICE tracking apps and websites are helping keep the community safe, but the Trump administration says they’re putting federal agents at risk. For The National, CBC’s Ashley Fraser breaks down how they work and why developers say they have a right to make them.