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'General acceptance': A year of banning cellphones in Canadian classrooms
EDMONTON - Sixteen-year-old Roha Akram was skeptical when teachers in Calgary announced a cellphone ban during the first assembly of the school year. "I was like, 'No one's going to follow this,'" the...
Jun 09, 2025 A 12-year-old boy plays with his personal phone outside school in Barcelona, Spain, on June 17, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Emilio Morenatti
Carney vows Canada will meet 2% NATO spending pledge this year
OTTAWA - Canada will meet its NATO defence spending commitment for the first time in decades as it comes to grips with an alarming new world of threats, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced in Toronto...
Jun 09, 2025
Trump's new travel ban takes effect amid escalating tension over immigration enforcement
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump's new ban on travel to the U.S. by citizens from 12 mainly African and Middle Eastern countries took effect on Monday. The new proclamation, which Trump signed...
Jun 08, 2025
U.S. envoy closely eyes Canada defence spending; says NATO about collective defence
OTTAWA - The American ambassador to Canada is closely watching as Ottawa shapes its defence budget, but says the U.S. will not dictate what the Canadian government must spend. "We're not expecting any...
Jun 08, 2025
Ottawa sending support from armed forces amid northern Ontario wildfire evacuations
The federal government has deployed members of the Canadian Armed Forces to help evacuate a northwestern Ontario First Nation as wildfires rapidly spread in the region, Prime Minister Mark Carney said...
Jun 08, 2025
Cooler weather and light rain helping some provinces in battle against wildfires
PRINCE ALBERT - The Saskatchewan government is boosting support it's giving to wildfire evacuees, while officials say light rain and cooler temperatures this weekend could help keep some of the provin...
Jun 07, 2025
Canada focusing on peace, energy security and new partnerships at G7 meeting: Carney
OTTAWA - Canada has unveiled its priorities for the G7 leaders' summit just one week before it gets underway in Alberta as the government defends its decision to invite India to the summit. Prime Mini...
Jun 07, 2025
Bank of Canada head Tiff Macklem says mandate should evolve in a 'shock-prone' world
OTTAWA - Tiff Macklem is wearing an Edmonton Oilers pin as he reflects on coming very close to beating big odds. It's a significant day for the governor of the Bank of Canada: he's just laid out his r...
Jun 07, 2025
U.S. ambassador says Canadians facing device searches, detainment 'not a pattern'
OTTAWA - The American ambassador to Canada is pushing back on Ottawa's travel advice, saying his country doesn't search phones at the border and arguing some Americans travelling here are having a tou...
Jun 07, 2025
Marc Garneau left lasting legacy on Earth and in space, former colleagues say
MONTREAL - Canadian scientists working on asteroid missions, exploring the universe through the James Webb Space Telescope or helping to put rovers on Mars say they can in some way thank Marc Garneau,...
Jun 07, 2025
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