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Montrealers protest Trump immigration crackdown, call out Canadian ‘complicity’

By Canadian Press on February 1st, 2026

MONTREAL — Demonstrators gathered in Montreal on Sunday to protest the immigration crackdown by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, calling out ICE tactics as well as Canadian “complicity” in them. Under crisp blue skies, scores of protesters assembled outside the U.S. Consulate downtown amid widespread outrage over the killing of two American citizens by federal ... Read More »

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Three men arrested in Surrey, B.C., after alleged extortion-related shooting

By Canadian Press on February 1st, 2026

SURREY — The Surrey Police Service says three men have been arrested after an early-morning shooting Sunday believed to be related to extortions. Police said officers were on patrol in the city’s Crescent Beach neighbourhood just before 4 a.m. when a call came in about a shooting and small fire outside a home near 132 ... Read More »

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Thousands rally in Toronto to support Iran uprising, call for regime change

By Canadian Press on February 1st, 2026

TORONTO — Thousands gathered in Toronto on Sunday to show support for the Iranian people as a deadly uprising sweeps through the Middle Eastern country. Protesters took to Sankofa Square to demand the fall of the Islamic regime, one of multiple protests in Toronto and across the country over the past several weeks. Countrywide protests ... Read More »

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Conservatives, Poilievre seek to carry convention momentum back into Parliament

By Canadian Press on February 1st, 2026

OTTAWA — Political analysts say the federal Conservatives and leader Pierre Poilievre have momentum coming off a unifying convention in Calgary but the party still has a hill to climb in Parliament to one-up Prime Minster Mark Carney and the Liberals. The Conservatives wrapped up their three-day national convention yesterday that saw Poilievre easily passed ... Read More »

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Dawson Creek RCMP announce charges against three people in 2023 homicide

By Canadian Press on February 1st, 2026

DAWSON CREEK — Police in Dawson Creek, B.C., say three people have been charged with first-degree murder more than two years after a 37-year-old man was found dead in a vehicle on New Year’s Eve in 2023. Dawson Creek RCMP say Robert Girbav, 37, was found dead inside a truck by officers responding to a ... Read More »

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Montreal demonstrators protest Trump immigration crackdown at U.S. Consulate

By Canadian Press on February 1st, 2026

Demonstrators are gathering in downtown Montreal to protest against the immigration crackdown by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis and other American cities. Protesters are assembling outside the U.S. Consulate on Saint-Catherine Street in the wake of the killing of two American citizens by federal agents in Minneapolis in the past few weeks. The ... Read More »

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A look at events in January 2026

By Canadian Press on February 1st, 2026

A look at news events in January 2026: 1 – Global Affairs Canada said it wasn’t aware of any Canadians among those killed or hurt in a deadly Swiss bar fire. Police said about 40 people died and roughly 115 were injured when flames tore through a New Year’s celebration in the Alpine resort of ... Read More »

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Earliest launch date for Artemis II set for Feb. 8 after cold weather delay: NASA

By Canadian Press on February 1st, 2026

The earliest possible launch date for the Artemis II rocket to carry Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen around the moon is scheduled for Feb. 8. NASA said cold weather and winds that blew through Florida and the Kennedy Space Center in the last several days led to the adjusted timeline. They said the adjustment will position ... Read More »

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Ottawa wants to get banks, pension funds involved in affordable housing: minister

By Canadian Press on February 1st, 2026

OTTAWA — The federal housing minister says he wants to ramp up the lagging pace of homebuilding in some provinces by bringing developers off the sidelines and into Ottawa’s affordable housing projects. Gregor Robertson also said in an interview that the feds’ new Build Canada Homes agency is working on getting Canadian banks and pension ... Read More »

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Change in government wouldn’t stop Alberta separatist movement, says leader

By Canadian Press on January 31st, 2026

CALGARY — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre blamed the federal Liberals for past and present separatist movements in Canada, but a separatist leader in Alberta said his group will still push to leave regardless of who is in office in Ottawa. During his nearly hour-long speech Friday evening at the Conservative convention in downtown Calgary, Poilievre ... Read More »

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Conservatives say they are united after strong endorsement of Poilievre’s leadership

By Canadian Press on January 31st, 2026

CALGARY — Conservatives wrapped their three-day national convention in Calgary ready to look ahead to the future after solidifying Pierre Poilievre’s leadership. “A united Conservative party has come out of this weekend, telling Canadians that we are ready to govern and fix the problems that the Liberals have created over the last decade,” said former ... Read More »

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