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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Athletes, advocates celebrating steps towards gender equality at Milan Olympics
The Milan Cortina Winter Olympics will be the most gender-balanced Olympic Winter Games in history, a feat being celebrated by Canada's sports organizations and Olympians. Women are set to make up 47 ...
Feb 06, 2026 Yuka Seto, of Japan, and Yuki Ito, also of Japan, right, wait their turn to jump during a ski jumping training session, at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Predazzo, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)
Across mountains and metropolises, Milan Cortina Olympics take form across Italy
The Milan Cortina Olympics come in various options, from the winter wonderland that is Livigno to the big city of Milan. Not to mention Cortina d'Ampezzo and several other venues. Livigno, located som...
Feb 05, 2026 China's Eileen Gu practices during a freestyle skiing slopestyle training session at the 2026 Winter Olympics, in Livigno, Italy, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Dented Canadian team gears up to chase gold in Milan Cortina Winter Olympics
A slightly dented Canadian team geared up Thursday to chase Olympic gold medals, while the Canadian Olympic Committee's chief executive officer warned the country's large medal hauls in winter sport s...
Feb 05, 2026 Canadian Olympic Committee CEO and Secretary General David Shoemaker, second left, speaks as COC President Tricia Smith, from left to right, COC Chief of Sport Eric Myles and Team Canada Chef de Mission Jennifer Heil listen during a COC news conference ahead of the opening of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, in Milan, on Thursday, February 5, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Seven Toronto cops charged in corruption, organized crime investigation: York police
York regional police say seven Toronto police officers and one retired officer are facing charges in an organized crime and corruption investigation allegedly involving bribery, conspiracy to commit m...
Feb 05, 2026 The Toronto Police Service's emblem is photographed during a press conference at TPS headquarters, in Toronto on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
Three Nova Scotia youths on hockey team face sexual assault charges after hazing
Nova Scotia RCMP say three youths are facing sexual assault charges after police received a complaint about a hockey team's hazing ritual last fall. The Mounties in Colchester County say the allegatio...
Feb 05, 2026 An RCMP epaulette is seen in Edmonton, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
Ottawa to relaunch EV rebates program in 2 weeks with new auto strategy
The federal government announced a suite of new electric vehicle policies Thursday, including the reintroduction of the popular rebate program and the elimination of the EV sales mandate in favour of ...
Feb 05, 2026 An electric vehicle charger is seen in Ottawa on June 27, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
NATO 5% pledge to add $63B to deficit by 2035, budget watchdog says
The parliamentary spending watchdog says Prime Minister Mark Carney's plan to spend the equivalent of five per cent of GDP on defence by 2035 will push the federal budget deficit up by $63 billion in ...
Feb 05, 2026
Harper says Canada's difficulties can't all be blamed on Trump in gala speech
Former prime minister Stephen Harper says Canada must adapt to new geopolitical realities, arguing that many of the country's difficulties can't be blamed on U.S. President Donald Trump. Harper made r...
Feb 05, 2026 Former prime minister Stephen Harper speaks during a ceremony for his official portrait unveiling in Ottawa, on Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
How a missing-person report filed after four decades helped ID Sask. woman's remains
Vancouver police say a missing-person report and a DNA sample filed by a B.C. woman four decades after her mother disappeared helped identify the remains of a woman found in Florida in the 1980s. Othr...
Feb 05, 2026 Missing Canadian woman Jeanette Marcotte is seen in this undated handout photo provided by U.S. DNA firm Othram. Othram says it has identified skeletal remains found in Florida in 1985 as those of Marcotte. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout — Othram
UK leader apologizes to victims of Epstein for giving Peter Mandelson an ambassador job
LONDON (AP) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer apologized Thursday to victims of Jeffrey Epstein for appointing Peter Mandelson as the U.K.'s ambassador to Washington despite his ties to the disgra...
Feb 05, 2026 Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech at Horntye Park Sports Complex in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. (Peter Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP)
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