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The Latest: Prime minister marks Remembrance Day ahead of national ceremony
By Canadian Press on November 11th, 2025
OTTAWA — This Remembrance Day marks eight decades since the conclusion of the Second World War and 25 years since the entombment of Canada’s Unknown Soldier, a First World War combatant who remains unidentified. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa honours the more than 118,000 Canadians who sacrificed their lives in service to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carney: Canada remembers ‘heroic service’ of war dead, veterans across country
By Canadian Press on November 11th, 2025
OTTAWA — Canadians are pausing today to remember the military members who put their lives on the line to serve their country as Remembrance Day ceremonies get underway countrywide. Prime Minister Mark Carney said today honours the heroism of those who “sacrificed years away from loved ones,” those who returned from combat forever changed, and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In the news today: 3,691 Canadian WWII vets alive 80 years on
By Canadian Press on November 11th, 2025
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… As Remembrance Day marks 80 years since WWII, fewer surviving veterans remain Eighty years after the end of the deadliest conflict in history, the number of living Second World War veterans has dwindled to a few thousand. The ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!As Remembrance Day marks 80 years since WWII, fewer surviving veterans remain
By Canadian Press on November 11th, 2025
OTTAWA — Eighty years after the end of the deadliest conflict in history, the number of living Second World War veterans has dwindled to a few thousand. Veterans Affairs Canada said it estimates that as of this year, there are 3,691 surviving Canadian veterans — 667 women and 3,024 men. Veterans Affairs also believes the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!About 7 in 10 Canadians plan to mark Remembrance Day: poll
By Canadian Press on November 11th, 2025
OTTAWA — A new survey suggests fewer Canadians were planning to observe Remembrance Day this year compared with 2024. The Leger poll says 69 per cent of respondents intended to mark the day this year in at least one way, including wearing a poppy or observing a moment of silence, down seven points from a ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!How Canada can regain its measles elimination status
By Canadian Press on November 11th, 2025
TORONTO — Infectious disease experts say Canada’s loss of measles elimination status shows how badly investment is needed in public health, rebuilding vaccine confidence and solving the primary care crisis. On Monday, the Pan American Health Organization revoked the measles-free status Canada has had since 1998 because an outbreak of the virus across several provinces ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Anand pushes multilateralism as G7 foreign ministers set to meet in Niagara region
By Canadian Press on November 11th, 2025
WASHINGTON — In a world shaken by volatile geopolitics and U.S. President Donald Trump’s protectionist policies, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is making a push for multilateralism as Canada closes out its presidency of the Group of Seven countries. Anand is welcoming G7 foreign ministers to Ontario’s freshly snow-covered Niagara region Tuesday and Wednesday to ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Budget signals lower increases to health transfers, end of funding deals
By Canadian Press on November 11th, 2025
OTTAWA — The federal budget signals there is no room for the premiers to negotiate for more health-care funding in coming years, one economist says, as the Ontario government calls for that to change. The Canada Health Transfer is projected to be $54.7 billion in 2025-26 and is set to grow by five per cent ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ontario, feds agree to 1-year child-care extension; average fee to stay $19/day
By Canadian Press on November 11th, 2025
TORONTO — Ontario has secured a one-year extension with the federal government for the national $10-a-day child-care program, giving parents reassurance their fees won’t rise for at least 12 more months, but with much hard work still to be done. The program that lowers parents’ child-care fees — now $19 a day on average in ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!DFO investigating third whale death off B.C.’s coast within weeks
By Canadian Press on November 10th, 2025
VICTORIA — An advocate for whales says many collisions between vessels and the animals are likely undetected or unreported as Fisheries Department investigates another death of a humpback whale off B.C.’s coast. Caitlin Birdsall, executive director of the Marine Education and Research Society, says the whale discovered Nov. 8 off Lasqueti Island in the Georgia ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Veterans Affairs minister ‘respects’ independence of court in poppy ban decision
By Canadian Press on November 10th, 2025
OTTAWA — Veterans Affairs Minister Jill McKnight says she respects the independence of Nova Scotia’s judiciary in determining judges have the right to ban the poppy from their courtrooms. Earlier this week, the heads of Nova Scotia’s supreme and provincial courts expressed their support for judges who ban court staff from pinning poppies to their ... Read More »
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