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US stocks add a bit more to their all-time high
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. stocks are adding to their records on Monday as Wall Street nears the finish of a second straight winning month. The S&P 500 was 0.2% higher in its first trading after complet...
Jun 30, 2025 A currency trader watches monitors near a screen showing the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, June 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)
Alberta byelection called for Aug. 18, giving Poilievre path to House
Pierre Poilievre has chosen one of the safest possible places to make his return to the House of Commons - but the rural Alberta riding he's hoping to win in an August byelection could also be dangero...
Jun 30, 2025 Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre arrives to Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Trump 'terminating' trade talks, threatens tariffs over Ottawa's digital services tax
U.S. President Donald Trump says he is "terminating all discussions on trade with Canada" and threatening new tariffs over Ottawa's plans to push ahead with a digital services tax at the end of the mo...
Jun 27, 2025 President Donald Trump speaks to the media on Friday, June 27, 2025, in the briefing room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Saskatchewan's former top Mountie, Rhonda Blackmore, hired for new job with RCMP
REGINA - The RCMP says Saskatchewan's former commanding officer now has a new job with the force. Mounties say Rhonda Blackmore has been hired as assistant commissioner of Indigenous and support servi...
Jun 27, 2025
Iran's Khamenei resurfaces to warn against U.S. attacks in first statement since ceasefire
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday his country had delivered a "slap to America's face" with its strike on a U.S. airbase in Qatar, and wa...
Jun 26, 2025 A B-2 bomber arrives at Whiteman Air Force Base Mo., Sunday, June 22, 2025, after returning from a massive strike on Iranian nuclear sites on Saturday. (AP Photo/David Smith)
Man who lit homeless woman on fire in P.A. has release revoked
The Parole Board of Canada has revoked the statutory release of a man who lit a homeless woman on fire in Saskatchewan. Leslie Black was sentenced to 16 years for attempted murder in the 2014 bludgeon...
Jun 26, 2025 Marlene Bird is shown in this undated handout provided by radio station CKBI. A Saskatchewan man who brutally attacked Bird and set her on fire more than a decade ago has been granted statutory release with conditions. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout CKBI)
Google urges CRTC to use restraint with Online Streaming Act
Google's representatives are asking the federal broadcast regulator to exercise caution and restraint in regulating online platforms. They say there is no rationale for the CRTC imposing traditional r...
Jun 25, 2025 Participants make their way through a Google booth and display at the APEC summit in Lima, Peru on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Prosecution rests in Sean 'Diddy' Combs' sex trafficking trial
NEW YORK (AP) - The prosecution rested Tuesday at Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking trial, capping a more than six-week-long presentation of evidence against the hip-hop maven that confronted him wi...
Jun 24, 2025
Anand says the 'timeline' is up for debate as NATO pursues higher defence spending
Canada is committed to increasing its defence spending but has questions about the "timeline" for hitting a new, higher NATO spending target, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Tuesday, as alli...
Jun 24, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney, centre, is flanked by Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs Anita Anand, left, and Minister of National Defence David McGuinty, right, as they wait for the start of a plenary at the Canada EU Summit in Brussels, Belgium on Monday, June 23, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Oil prices tumble, and Wall Street nears its record in a worldwide rally for stocks
NEW YORK (AP) - Oil prices are dropping further, and U.S. stocks are pulling closer to their all-time high Tuesday on hopes that Israel's war with Iran will not damage the global flow of crude, even i...
Jun 24, 2025 Specialist Dilip Patel, left, and trader Robert Charmak work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, June 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
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