Murray Wood: The day Canada Became a nation
April 9, 1917 was Easter Monday. On that date, 109 years ago, Canadian soldiers made history at Vimy Ridge. Murray Wood ...
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Writer and photographer Stephen Thorne remembered as dogged, keen-eyed storyteller
OTTAWA - Journalist Stephen Thorne, who movingly chronicled some of the most difficult episodes in recent Canadian history, died Friday after being ill with prostate cancer. He was 66. Thorne spent mu...
Dec 07, 2025
Document reveals approval to harvest remnant old-growth in B.C.'s northwest
British Columbia's logging agency has changed a policy that conserved remnant old-growth forest in the province's northwest, with a government briefing note showing a plan to open those areas for harv...
Dec 07, 2025
Experts urge Ottawa to seek new trading opportunities within the Western Hemisphere
OTTAWA - Canada is missing out on economic opportunities in its own backyard, says a new report from the Canadian Council for the Americas. "Latin America is the neglected ... close cousin of Canada,"...
Dec 07, 2025
Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau share relationship photos from Japan trip on Instagram
After first igniting romantic rumours with a lunch in Montreal in July, Justin Trudeau and Katy Perry looked to firm things up on Saturday. Perry posted images of the two of them on her Instagram, amo...
Dec 06, 2025
'Bringing home the dignity and the power': Indigenous artifacts returned to Canada from Vatican
By Alessia Passafiume OTTAWA - First Nations, Inuit and Mtis leaders gathered at Montreal's airport Saturday to welcome home dozens of Indigenous artifacts released from the Vatican collection. "I giv...
Dec 06, 2025 Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak speaks at the Assembly of First Nations Annual General Assembly on Sept. 3, 2025. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods)
Alberta's Smith says courts should not be gatekeepers on constitutional questions
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says anyone seeking an independence referendum should not have "gatekeepers," like the courts, standing in their way. Smith was asked about the independence q...
Dec 06, 2025
Events mark 36 years since Polytechnique attack, honouring 14 women slain in 1989
By Sidhartha Banerjee MONTREAL - Polytechnique Montral and others across the country will pay tribute today to the 14 women who were murdered at the engineering school 36 years ago in a brazen anti-fe...
Dec 06, 2025 The tower of the University de Montreal is reflected in the school's memorial plaque that names the 14 victims on the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Ecole Polytechnique attack where a lone gunman killed 14 female students Friday, December 6, 2019 in Montreal. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz)
Russian dissidents call on Ottawa to resettle their peers facing deportation in U.S.
OTTAWA - Prominent Russian democracy activists are urging Ottawa to resettle dozens of their peers who tried to claim asylum in the U.S. and now face deportation and imprisonment in Russia. The activi...
Dec 06, 2025
Eby says DRIPA law could be amended after First Nations win appeal in mining case
SURREY - First Nations are celebrating a British Columbia Court of Appeal ruling which found the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the provincial mineral claims regime...
Dec 05, 2025
Mayors urge Ontario to declare state of emergency to address homelessness, addiction
TORONTO - The mayors of Ontario's 29 largest cities are calling on the province to declare a state of emergency as municipalities deal with what they call a "community safety and humanitarian crisis" ...
Dec 05, 2025
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Sarah Mills: The prime minister needs to live by his own bilingual rules
Sarah Mills says Mark Carney largely speaking French in his call to astronaut Jeremy Hansen breaks a standard he set whe...
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The Evan Bray Show - Thursday, April 9
On Thursday's show, Evan welcomes a trio of teens to discuss banning social media for children and teenagers, discusses ...