Dan Karpenchuk
Canada correspondentBTPM NPR's comprehensive news coverage extends into Southern Ontario and Dan Karpenchuk is the station’s voice from the north. The award-winning reporter covers binational issues, including economic trends, the environment, tourism and transportation.
Karpenchuk’s long career in public broadcasting began in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He currently works in the Toronto region.
Dan's reports for BTPM NPR have included stories about Toronto's hot housing market, the energy industry and the failure of retail giant Target's foray into the Canadian market. He provides listeners with insights on Great Lakes issues, the arts, health trends and other topics that are important to our audience. His reports help listeners to better understand how residents on both sides of the border are impacted by issues and events.
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May 5 is the annual day set aside to raise awareness and remember the thousands of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and two spirit people. -
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service says youth radicalization by extremists is a problem across the country. -
As the three countries inch closer to a review of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the rhetoric is getting sharper, and at times even more combative. -
A Hamilton, Ont., baseball team has run afoul of the big leagues and is now in a legal fight with the St. Louis Cardinals. -
Formal talks on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) begin in July, but we’re coming off a week of rising trade tensions between Canada and the U.S. -
The alleged poison seller is expected to plead guilty to aiding and abetting suicide in 14 cases in Ontario. But the total number of deaths linked to his products has reached 150 — more than 110 of them in Britain. -
Now that he has a majority, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is turning to the review of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which is only months away. -
Prime Minister Mark Carney is defending one of the his government’s major infrastructure projects: a high-speed rail service between Toronto and Quebec City. -
Wins in metropolitan Toronto ridings Monday gave Prime Minister Mark Carney a slight majority in Canadian Parliament. -
Political history is about to be made in Canada on Monday as three federal by-elections are being held; two of them in Ontario and one in Quebec.
