| | | Hello, these are your top stories for Saturday, April 19, 2025. Get up-to-date news any time on our website. | | | | | April 19 , 2025 at 04:00:00 a.m. EDT • : | Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has historic ties to Rebel News owner Ezra Levant, the right-wing media personality at the epicentre of a controversy that has engulfed Canada's Leaders' Debates Commission. | Read more | | | | April 19 , 2025 at 04:00:00 a.m. EDT • : | U.S. President Donald Trump has done numerous things in his second term that have been deemed authoritarian. But there's one line he hasn't crossed, at least not yet. He has not wilfully, clearly, defied a court order, crossing the Rubicon into a constitutional no man's land where there are no rules. Until now. | Read more | | | | April 19 , 2025 at 04:00:00 a.m. EDT • : | As most of the major parties gear up to unveil their fully costed platforms, a former assistant parliamentary budget officer says they're important because Canadians want to understand how parties will implement their spending plans during a trade war. | Read more | | | | | April 19 , 2025 at 04:00:00 a.m. EDT • : | The internet's favourite killer AI doll is back, and this time, movie audiences can slide into M3GAN's DMs via chatbot technology. These and other interactive experiences that let viewers step into fictional worlds, like Lumon Industries from AppleTV's Severance, are immersive marketing strategies experts say can help build engagement among fans who crave authenticity. | Read more | | | | April 19 , 2025 at 04:00:00 a.m. EDT • : | U.S. President Donald Trump has been threatening to cancel funding for some universities unless they accede to his demands to change ideological policy, similar to a pledge Pierre Poilievre has made for Canadian post-secondary schools. | Read more | | | | | | April 19 , 2025 at 04:56:21 a.m. EDT • : | | Read more | | | | | | April 18 , 2025 at 05:39:06 p.m. EDT • : | | Read more | | | | | | April 18 , 2025 at 04:00:00 a.m. EDT • : | | Read more | | | | | | April 18 , 2025 at 01:37:32 p.m. EDT • : | | Read more | | | | | | April 18 , 2025 at 09:00:14 p.m. EDT • : | | Read more | | | | Enjoying this newsletter? You may also like CBC News Morning Brief, the news you need to know to start the day. Delivered weekday mornings. Sign up here | | | April 18 , 2025 at 04:42:01 p.m. EDT • : | | Read more | | | | April 17 , 2025 at 11:19:59 p.m. EDT • : | | Read more | | | | April 18 , 2025 at 04:36:06 p.m. EDT • : | | Read more | | | | April 18 , 2025 at 05:21:59 p.m. EDT • : | | Read more | | | | April 18 , 2025 at 06:54:43 p.m. EDT • : | | Read more | | | | | That's all for now. Check cbc.ca/news throughout the day for the most recent headlines. | | | | | |