Canada

World leaders, survivors in Poland for 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation

KRAKOW - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Krakow, Poland, where leaders from around the world are gathering to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The notoriou...

Jan 27, 2025

Foreign Affairs Minister Joly says Canadian released from detention in Afghanistan

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Melanie Joly says Canadian David Lavery has safely made it to Qatar from Afghanistan with the help of the Qatari government. The Canadian Armed Forces veteran went mi...

Jan 26, 2025

B.C.-based climate activist deported to Pakistan after protest charges

A British Columbia-based climate change activist says he's looking forward to seeing his family and eating the food when he returns to his native Pakistan, as he was being deported from Canada on Sund...

Jan 26, 2025

Trump says Canada should become part of U.S. Our head of state isn't weighing in.

OTTAWA - Canada's political leadership has found rare unanimity in recent weeks: nobody wants the country to become the "51st state," as U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly pitched. The heads o...

Jan 26, 2025

Quebec man charged with second-degree murder after death in Montérégie region

SAINT-ANICET, Que. - A 55-year-old man has been charged with second-degree murder after a death in Quebec's Montrgie region on Saturday. The man appeared in court via video conference on Sunday. Quebe...

Jan 26, 2025

Arya says he's out of Liberal leadership race, as Carney gets more caucus support

OTTAWA - One of the seven Liberal leadership hopefuls says the party is not allowing him to run, as another high-profile cabinet minister endorsed Mark Carney on Sunday.Ontario member of Parliament Ch...

Victor Kaisar Jan 26, 2025

Public service productivity study group not looking at remote work, says member

OTTAWA - The working group tasked with measuring productivity within Canada's federal public service has not looked at remote work, one of its members says. Bea Bruske, president of the Canadian Labou...

Victor Kaisar Jan 26, 2025

Liberal leadership hopefuls campaigning in Quebec on Sunday

OTTAWA - Former central banker Mark Carney is set to add another big endorsement to his growing pile of backers as Industry Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne is expected to announce his endorsement ...

Jan 26, 2025

Survey says more young Canadians believe the history of the Holocaust is exaggerated

OTTAWA - On Monday the world will mark eight decades since the liberation of Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi extermination camps where more than a million people, most of them Jews, were murdered during...

Jan 26, 2025

Sailor dead after a boat capsized in Bedford Basin: Royal Canadian Navy

HALIFAX - The Royal Canadian Navy says a sailor has died in the Bedford Basin after a boat capsized. The Navy says two sailors were operating a rigid-hull inflatable boat in the Halifax-area bay when ...

Jan 25, 2025