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Foreign Affairs Minister Joly says Canadian released from detention in Afghanistan
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canadian David Lavery has safely made it to Qatar from Afghanistan with the help of the Qatari government. The Canadian Armed Forces veteran went mi...
Jan 26, 2025
B.C.-based climate activist deported to Pakistan after protest charges
British Columbia-based environmental activist Zain Haq was aboard a plane in Toronto on Sunday afternoon, awaiting a nearly 14-hour flight to Pakistan, where he said he was looking forward to seeing h...
Jan 26, 2025
B.C. chief wants Oscar-nominated residential school film to be part of curriculum
Warning: This story contains details of residential schools that may be upsetting to some readers. Find the 24-hour Indian Residential School Crisis Line at 1-866-925-4419. WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - An Os...
Jan 26, 2025 Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Williams Lake First Nation Chief Willie Sellars, and Minister of Crown Indigenous Relations Marc Miller walk together on the former grounds of St. Joseph's Mission Residential School, in Williams Lake, B.C., on March 30, 2022. An Academy-Award-nominated film that follows an investigation into deaths, abuse and missing children at a former British Columbia residential school should be shown in schools across Canada, says a First Nations leader. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)
Public service productivity study group not looking at remote work, says member
OTTAWA - The working group tasked with measuring productivity within Canada's federal public service has not looked at remote work, one of its members says. Bea Bruske, president of the Canadian Labou...
Jan 26, 2025
Survey says more young Canadians believe the history of the Holocaust is exaggerated
OTTAWA - On Monday the world will mark eight decades since the liberation of Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi extermination camps where more than a million people, most of them Jews, were murdered during...
Jan 26, 2025 A man walks next to the ''Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) gate at the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland in 2023. The camp was liberated by Soviet troops on Jan. 27, 1945. (AP Photo/Michal Dyjuk)
Arya says he's out of Liberal leadership race, as Carney gets more caucus support
OTTAWA - One of the seven Liberal leadership hopefuls says the party is not allowing him to run, as another high-profile cabinet minister endorsed Mark Carney on Sunday. Ontario member of Parliament C...
Jan 26, 2025
Snap Ontario election call kicks parties' planning into high gear
TORONTO - Ontario's political parties have been preparing for months for the possibility of an early election, but next week's snap election call has pushed planning to a fever pitch. Premier Doug For...
Jan 26, 2025
Carney secures three more ministerial endorsements
OTTAWA - Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney secured three more endorsements from cabinet on Saturday, with Defence Minister Bill Blair and Transport Minister Anita Anand backing Carney in statemen...
Jan 25, 2025
Senate confirms Noem as Trump's homeland security secretary
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate confirmed Kristi Noem as homeland security secretary on Saturday, putting the South Dakota governor in charge of a sprawling agency that is essential to national security ...
Jan 25, 2025
Trump's sweeping pardon of rioters highlights differences in U.S., Canadian systems
OTTAWA - In one of his first acts upon taking office Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned or moved to dismiss the cases of some 1,500 people charged in the Capitol riots of Jan. 6, 2021. The s...
Jan 25, 2025 President Donald Trump answers questions from reporters as he signs an executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Washington. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Ben Curtis)
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