Murray Wood: A party 100 years in the making
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Your phone rings, and it's a number from Sweden. Do you answer? A Nobel Prize winner didn't
BERLIN (AP) - For some Nobel Prize winners this year, the news came with a knock at the door before dawn. For others, it was a long-awaited phone call honoring a discovery made decades ago. One of the...
Oct 08, 2025 Ross Colquhoun wakes up his wife Mary E. Brunkow to talk about her winning a Nobel Prize in medicine for part of her work on peripheral immune tolerance, in Seattle, Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
LeBlanc says 'more detailed' trade talks with Trump are aimed at quick deals
Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc says Canada and the U.S. are working toward reaching sector-specific trade deals on steel, aluminum and energy. Speaking to reporters at the Canadian...
Oct 07, 2025
Ottawa, Ontario urge each other to help Marineland's belugas amid euthanasia threat
The federal and Ontario governments are urging each other to help 30 belugas at Marineland, which has threatened to euthanize the whales if the park does not receive emergency funds from Ottawa. The f...
Oct 07, 2025 Beluga whales swim in a tank at Marineland amusement park in Niagara Falls, Ont., Friday, June 9, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Convoy leaders Lich, Barber given conditional sentences
"Freedom Convoy" leaders Tamara Lich and Chris Barber will receive conditional sentences after being convicted of mischief for their roles in the protest that blockaded downtown Ottawa for several wee...
Oct 07, 2025 Chris Barber arrives at the courthouse in Ottawa for sentencing in his trial with fellow Freedom Convoy organizer Tamara Lich on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
Trump talks 'love' and 'conflict' with Carney during Canadian prime minister's visit
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said there's "mutual love" but "natural conflict" between the United States and Canada as he sat down with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Tuesday in the Oval Of...
Oct 07, 2025 President Donald Trump greets Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, as he arrives at the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Fiscal watchdog gives mixed review to Ottawa's budget framework changes
Ottawa's fiscal watchdog says that while there are good measures in the new budget framework the federal government announced this week, its definition of capital spending could blur the picture of fe...
Oct 07, 2025 Interim Parliamentary Budget Officer Jason Jacques speaks with a senator as he waits to appear before the Senate Banking, Commerce and the Economy committee in Ottawa, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Concordia University closes downtown campus ahead of Oct. 7 protests
Concordia University has closed all in-person classes at its downtown Montreal campus ahead of protests on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel. University president Graham Carr...
Oct 07, 2025 Concordia University's downtown campus is seen Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2017, in Montreal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
Gaza peace talks enter their second day on the war's anniversary
CAIRO (AP) - Peace talks between Israel and Hamas resumed at an Egyptian resort city on Tuesday, the two-year anniversary of the militant group's surprise attack on Israel that triggered the bloody co...
Oct 07, 2025 A tourist films the sunrise at the Red Sea city of Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where Israeli and Hamas officials are set to hold indirect talks, on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2025. (AP Photo)
Auto sector tempering expectations of Carney-Trump meeting
The Canadian auto industry is tempering its expectations of the high-profile Tuesday meeting between Prime Minister Mark Carney and U.S. President Donald Trump. The industry is among those suffering t...
Oct 06, 2025 President Donald Trump waiting to greet Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the West Wing of the White House, Tuesday, May 6, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)
Newfoundland airport warns about catfishing as people arrive to meet loved ones who don't exist
The chief executive of an airport in central Newfoundland says staff have noticed an increase in people who appear to have been victims of a manipulative scheme known as catfishing. Reg Wright with th...
Oct 06, 2025 The Gander, N.L., airport is shown on Thursday, July 6, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sarah Smellie
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