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Canada Post workers poised to hit picket lines Friday as strike notice issued
Canada Post says it has received strike notices from the union representing some 55,000 postal workers, with operations poised to shut down by the end of the week. The Crown corporation says the union...
May 19, 2025 Canada Post says it has received strike notices from the union representing some 55,000 postal workers, with operations poised to shut down by the end of the week. (Canadian Press files)
Canada, U.K., France threaten Israel with concrete actions against military expansion
The leaders of Canada, the United Kingdom and France are condemning Israel's expansion of military operations and threatening to take concrete actions. A joint statement called Sunday's announcement t...
May 19, 2025
Manitoba declares state of emergency in provincial park due to fires
Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew declared a state of emergency Thursday to aid the evacuation of a provincial park due to wildfires, one day after the bodies of two people were discovered. He did not provid...
May 15, 2025
Mark Carney travelling to Rome for Pope Leo's inaugural mass
Prime Minister Mark Carney is heading to Rome on Friday to attend Pope Leo's inaugural mass. The Prime Minister's Office said in a news release Tuesday that Carney will be in Rome from May 16 to 19. R...
May 13, 2025 Pope Leo XIV meets with members of the international media in the Paul VI Hall at the Vatican, Monday, May 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)
Prime Minister Mark Carney says new cabinet will act with 'urgency and determination'
Prime Minister Mark Carney shook up his cabinet Tuesday by moving some key players involved in Canada-U.S. relations into new positions and promoting 24 new faces in a move meant to signal change at t...
May 13, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to reporters following a swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa, on Tuesday, May 13, 2025. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby)
R&B singer Cassie is set to testify in Sean 'Diddy' Combs sex trafficking trial
NEW YORK (AP) - The R&B singer Cassie could testify as soon as Tuesday in the sex trafficking trial of her ex-boyfriend Sean "Diddy" Combs, as the music mogul is charged with orchestrating a devia...
May 13, 2025 Sean Diddy Combs, left, stands as his defense attorney, Teny Geragos, gives her opening statement to the jury on the first day of trial in Manhattan federal court, Monday, May 12, 2025, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
Prime Minister Carney to shuffle cabinet at Rideau Hall today
Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to name his new cabinet at Rideau Hall this morning - and it's expected to be a slimmed-down front bench meant to signal a more businesses-minded approach to governme...
May 13, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney departs Rideau Hall to speak to media, in Ottawa, Sunday, March 23, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn
Despite a polarizing election, poll suggests Canadians don't want a two-party system
While the recent federal election turned into a tight race between the Liberals and Conservatives that left other parties trailing far behind, a new poll suggests most Canadians don't want the country...
May 13, 2025 Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, left, and Liberal Leader Mark Carney talk following the English-language federal leaders' debate in Montreal on Thursday, April 17, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
Robert Prevost, first American pope in history of Catholic Church, will take name Leo XIV
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Robert Prevost, an missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican's powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in ...
May 08, 2025 Newly elected Pope Leo XIV appears at the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Thursday, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
White smoke pours out of Sistine Chapel chimney, signaling election of new pope
VATICAN CITY (AP) - White smoke poured from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel and the great bells of St. Peter's Basilica tolled Thursday after cardinals elected the 267th pope to lead the Catholic Ch...
May 08, 2025 White smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel during the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Thursday, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
White smoke billows from the chimney of the Sistine Chapel during the conclave to elect a new pope, at the Vatican, Thursday, May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
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