Murray Wood: A party 100 years in the making
Murray Wood and a couple of hundred others attended a birthday party on the weekend for a woman who turned 100, and cele...
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Ottawa puts $200M into space launch pad in Nova Scotia
The federal government is putting $200 million toward a Canadian-owned launch pad to send satellites into orbit. Ottawa will use the funds over the next decade to lease a space launch pad near Canso, ...
Mar 16, 2026 National Defence David McGuinty speaks during an announcement in Ottawa on Monday, March 9, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Accused in fatal Quebec daycare bus crash declared high-risk offender
The Quebec man found not criminally responsible for killing two children after he drove a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare has been labelled a high-risk offender. Superior Court Justice ric Downs...
Mar 16, 2026 The scene outside a daycare centre in Laval, Que, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023, where a bus crashed killing two children. A Superior Court judge is to render a final decision Tuesday on whether a Quebec man is not criminally responsible in the deaths of two young children. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
Annual inflation cools to 1.8% in February, StatCan says
Statistics Canada says the annual rate of inflation dipped below two per cent in February as the end of last year's federal "tax holiday" helped to take some steam out of the yearly price comparisons....
Mar 16, 2026
Carney meets Keir Starmer in London as war in Iran disrupts shipping routes
Prime Minister Mark Carney met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday, and while both remarked the world has become a more challenging place since their first meeting a year ago, neither n...
Mar 16, 2026 Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, right, and Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney talk during their meeting at 10 Downing Street in London on Monday, March 16, 2026. (Brook Mitchell/Pool Photo via AP)
Fears of a global energy crisis rise as Iran keeps stranglehold on shipping and hits Dubai airport
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Fears of a global energy crisis rose Monday as the war in the Middle East raged on, with more U.S.-Israeli strikes on the Iranian capital and Israel's bombardment of Lebanon. An...
Mar 16, 2026 A view of a building damaged in an Israeli airstrike, in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
PM's office mum on Conservative Order of Canada petition for Don Cherry
Prime Minister Mark Carney's office wouldn't weigh in on a push by the federal Conservatives to award the Order of Canada to controversial hockey commentator Don Cherry. Audrey Champoux, a spokesperso...
Mar 14, 2026 Hockey commentator Don Cherry in Toronto, Feb. 15, 2011. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
Manhunt for suspect in fatal shooting leads to delay in opening gates at Players Championship
PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A man shot and killed two people in a drug store parking lot near the TPC Sawgrass and then escaped by going onto TPC Sawgrass, leading The Players Championship to delay...
Mar 14, 2026 Si Woo Kim of South Korea drives off the 17th tee during the second round of The Players Championship golf tournament Friday, March 13, 2026, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Carney says Canada a reliable oil exporter with moves to increase production
Prime Minister Mark Carney says that countries like Canada do not need to have oil reserves as a net exporter, after the energy minister announced Canada will contribute 23.6 million barrels to help s...
Mar 14, 2026 Wearing a hat and pin he was presented by the Canadian athletes, Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store at the Holmenkollen ski festival in Oslo, Norway, Saturday, March 14, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Premier Moe hits back at Ottawa's gun buyback program through certificate exemptions
REGINA - Saskatchewan's government is fighting back against Ottawa's gun buyback program through measures it says aim to protect firearm owners. The province said it's proposing legislative changes th...
Mar 11, 2026
Canada will 'do its part' to help IEA release of oil reserves: Hodgson
OTTAWA - Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson said Wednesday Canada will "do its part" to lower the cost of oil globally as a bloc of nations looks to tame the surge in energy prices triggered by th...
Mar 11, 2026
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