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U.S. ambassador offers Canada help almost a week after Wainwright tragedy
U.S. offering help after Wainwright fire
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Keito Newman
U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says the United States has offered to help following the deadly fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta.
Four soldiers were killed and 39 injured on Oct. 17 when a fire that began during a training exercise on an anti-grenade launching range was picked up by fierce winds.
The military says the fire swept in less than a minute about a kilometre away to where a different training exercise was taking place on the base about 200 kilometres southeast of Edmonton.
Twenty-seven soldiers remain in hospital, including 13 in critical condition, many of them with severe burns.
In a social media post today almost a week after the tragedy, Hoekstra said the U.S. government has made a formal offer of assistance and resources to Canada's federal government to help support the recovery of soldiers affected by traumatic burns "should it be deemed necessary."
The military says there are three different investigations into the tragedy and could not say when more answers will be available about how the tragedy occurred.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 23, 2026.
— With files from Kyle Duggan and Nick Murray in Ottawa
By Catherine Morrison | Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
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Manitoba NDP rolls back on child-specific autism plan, will now focus on adults, too
Manitoba NDP rolls back on autism approach
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The Manitoba government is no longer pursuing a child-specific autism strategy and will instead have one that focuses not only on children, but also on adults.
Families Minister Nahanni Fontaine says the government has heard the concerns from the public and is acting on them.
She says they will rescind amendments made to a private member's bill that narrowed the approach.
The Autism Strategy Act that Liberal MLA Cindy Lamoureux put forward requires the establishment of a provincewide strategy as well as annual reports to track progress.
Lamoureux says almost everyone she consulted with spoke of the importance of services for adults.
Fontaine says the government is now committed to passing the act in its original form next week.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 23, 2026.
Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
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Publishers rely on trust, not tech, to ensure books aren't AI-generated
Publishers rely on trust to ensure books aren't AI
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In the absence of surefire technology to determine whether something was written by artificial intelligence, some Canadian publishers say they have to rely on something nearly as thorny: trust.
Alana Wilcox, the editorial director of Coach House Books, wrote in an email that the company asks writers to be upfront about whether their work contains material generated by AI.
She says the existing tools to discern the use of AI aren't reliable.
There is renewed attention on the role of artificial intelligence in the book industry after a Quebec publisher cut ties with an author accused of using AI to write his debut novel.
Earlier this week, Montreal-based publishing house Les Éditions du Boréal said an analysis of some documents' metadata found evidence author Thélyson Orélien used AI while writing his novel "C’était ça ou mourir" ("It was either that or dying").
Allegations that Orélien used AI in his book first emerged on social media in September. The author denied using AI to write the book but said he had used it for research. Orélien did not respond to The Canadian Press’ request for comment following the publisher's announcement on Wednesday.
Before the controversy, the novel had been nominated for several major French literary awards and won the Prix du Roman Fnac. It has since been removed from contention for France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt.
Les Éditions du Boréal didn't specify which metadata showed the AI use.
And while the allegations against Orélien illustrate that trust may not always be enough, Wilcox said Coach House Books doesn't see much of an alternative.
"Our contract asks the author to affirm that their book does not contain AI-generated material. But there is no reliable way to police this: the tools that exist have proven unreliable and problematic in countless ways," she wrote.
"Nor are we interested in supporting systems that were trained on stolen material — our books," she added, referencing the fact that AI detection tools are, themselves, artificial intelligence.
Lisa Quinn, president of the Association of Canadian Publishers, said AI technology is a broad descriptor and there is nuance in how assistive AI tools can be used in the publishing industry.
But she says "the publishing industry strongly believes that artistic creation, intellectual creation is a human-centred activity."
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Oct. 23, 2026.
By Kaitlyn McGrath | Copyright 2026, The Canadian Press. All rights reserved.
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Un jackpot de 70 M$ est en jeu ce soir au Lotto Max et oui ça change le monde
Ça fait beaucoup de pleins d'essence! 🚗
Si le montant de 500 $ qui sera remis aux citoyens par le gouvernement du Québec t'as rendu heureux.euse cette semaine, imagine-toi maintenant un chèque de 70 millions de dollars. C'est le montant du jackpot au tirage au Lotto Max, ce soir, le 25 mars. La cagnotte atteint au total 83 millions $ si on compte les 13 « maxmillions » (lots de 1 million $).
Le gros lot de 65 millions n'a pas été gagné au tirage du mardi 22 mars et le montant du gain est donc bonifié à 70 millions, la somme maximale pour une loterie au Canada.
Il faut vraiment être « au bon endroit au bon moment » lorsque tu prends ton billet et être très chanceux.euse puisque la probabilité de gagner avec une combinaison de sept chiffres est de 1 sur 99 884 400.
Tu pourrais donc vivre la même chose que ces gagnants favorisés par les lois du hasard ou cet emballeur de 22 ans de Saint-Romuald qui a remporté 70 millions de dollars qu'il a partagé avec sa famille en février 2020 ou encore cette joueuse pour qui le tout premier billet de loterie s'est avéré le bon.
Depuis le tout premier tirage du Lotto Max le 25 septembre 2009, plus de 3 021 millions de dollars ont été remis à des gagnant.es du Québec.
Pour jouer au Lotto Max, une loterie pancanadienne, tu peux t'acheter un billet en ligne avec son compte Loto-Québec ou chez un détaillant avant 22 h 30 aujourd'hui le 25 mars. Les numéros gagnants seront affichés sur le site Web de Loto-Québec quelques heures après le tirage des numéros bénis.