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Ottawa silent on replacements as special ambassador positions open up
OTTAWA - The Carney government is not saying whether it will keep appointing ambassadors on themes championed by the Trudeau cabinet, now that terms are lapsing for Ottawa's envoys on climate and wome...
Jul 22, 2025
Poilievre calls for law to block long ballot protests that 'abuse' democracy
OTTAWA - Bipartisan support could be building behind the idea of reining in the long lists of names overwhelming election ballots in some ridings across Canada. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre sa...
Jul 22, 2025
Crime severity index dropped four per cent last year, Statistics Canada says
OTTAWA - The national statistics agency says the volume and severity of police-reported crime in Canada decreased four per cent last year, after three annual increases in a row. Statistics Canada says...
Jul 22, 2025 A Statistics Canada sign is shown in Ottawa on Wednesday, July 3, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
Trade war to dominate meeting with premiers, prime minister
TORONTO - The growing trade war with the United States will be top of the agenda when Canada's premiers meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney today. The premiers say they want to hear more about Carney...
Jul 22, 2025 Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers a statement at the Walters Group Steel fabrication plant in Hamilton, Ont., Wednesday, July 16, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young
Trump administration withdraws from UNESCO again, only 2 years after US rejoined
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it will once again withdraw from the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO, an expected move that has the U.S. further retreating from inter...
Jul 22, 2025
Jasper marks one year since thousands fled wildfire on one road out in dark of night
JASPER, ALTA. - One year to the day a wind-whipped fire forced thousands to flee in the dark of night along one smoke-choked road, the mayor of Jasper acknowledged it was a moment of remembrance that ...
Jul 22, 2025
Trump thinks Canadians 'nasty' for avoiding U.S. travel, banning booze: ambassador
Canadians avoiding travel to the United States and banning American alcohol are among the reasons U.S. President Donald Trump thinks the country is "nasty" to deal with, the U.S. ambassador to Canada ...
Jul 21, 2025
Judge gives ex-officer nearly 3 years in Breonna Taylor raid, rebuffs DOJ call for no prison time
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) - A federal judge on Monday sentenced a former Kentucky police officer to nearly three years in prison for using excessive force during the deadly Breonna Taylor raid five years a...
Jul 21, 2025
Long-ballot protest group signs up more in Alberta byelection featuring Poilievre
EDMONTON - An advocacy-protest group that broke its own record last week for putting the most candidates on an election ballot is now up to 132 for the federal Battle River-Crowfoot byelection in Albe...
Jul 21, 2025
Trump administration released FBI records on MLK Jr. despite his family’s opposition
The Trump administration has released records of the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate's family and the civil rights group that he led unti...
Jul 21, 2025
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