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Canada signs new security and defence partnership with Europe
By Canadian Press on June 23rd, 2025
BRUSSELS — Canada and the European Union opened a new era of transatlantic co-operation Monday with the official signing of a security and defence partnership at a joint summit in Brussels. The agreement commits Canada and Europe to collaboration on defence and is a step toward Canada participating in the continent’s massive new defence procurement ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Manitoba premier ends state of emergency as wildfires recede
By Canadian Press on June 23rd, 2025
WINNIPEG — Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says the provincewide state of emergency has been lifted as wildfires recede. More coming. The Canadian Press... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Police in B.C. say suspect known as ‘Mr. X’ in 1985 Air India bombing is dead
By Canadian Press on June 23rd, 2025
Police in British Columbia say a suspect known as “Mr. X” who is believed to have helped test a bomb before the 1985 Air India terror attack has died before facing charges. The statement from the RCMP’s Pacific Region comes as families commemorate the 40th anniversary of the attack, where two bombs targeting Air India ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada starts busing citizens out of Israel days after allies began
By Canadian Press on June 23rd, 2025
OTTAWA — Ottawa has started evacuating Canadians from Israel days after telling them to find their own way to neighbouring countries. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says bus services started this morning from Tel Aviv and the West Bank to Jordan. She says bus routes also started yesterday to take Canadians who fled Iran for ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ontario, Quebec battle another day of scorching temperatures as heat dome lingers
By Canadian Press on June 23rd, 2025
TORONTO — Dangerously high temperatures persisted on Monday across much of Ontario and southwestern Quebec, as a heat dome lingers over the region. Environment Canada said the heat wave that began on Sunday will likely continue until Wednesday, with daytime highs of up to 36 C and humidex values expected to linger between 42 and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Mark Carney names Kirsten Hillman chief negotiator with U.S.
By Canadian Press on June 23rd, 2025
OTTAWA — Canada’s Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman will take on the role of top negotiator for Canada as the country seeks a new trade and security pact with the Donald Trump administration. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office confirms Hillman has been named to the position, making her U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer’s opposite ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Newly launched Access to Information review is flawed, transparency advocates say
By Canadian Press on June 23rd, 2025
OTTAWA — A newly launched federal review of the Access to Information system is being greeted with deep skepticism by transparency advocates. The Treasury Board Secretariat announced the government review, which takes place every five years, in a news release late Friday. The release says officials will seek input from a broad range of Canadians, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Third day of searching for four missing in Quebec medical helicopter crash
By Canadian Press on June 23rd, 2025
MONTREAL — Police are spending a third day searching for four people who went missing after a medical transport helicopter crashed on Quebec’s North Shore. The Airmedic helicopter crashed into a lake late Friday near Natashquan, Que., just over 1,000 kilometres northeast of Montreal. Five people were aboard the aircraft when it went down. One ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada’s next national census set for May 2026
By Canadian Press on June 23rd, 2025
OTTAWA — The next Canadian census will be held in May 2026. The federal cabinet has issued an order fixing the date for the census and the questions it will ask. The last census was held in 2021 and was the first to be held during a pandemic. It collected data on the population, including ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Convicted killer, 62, escapes from Archambault Institution in Quebec
By Canadian Press on June 23rd, 2025
MONTREAL — Correctional Service Canada says a convicted killer has escaped from a prison in Quebec’s Laurentians region. Staff discovered Richard Plourde was missing from his minimum security unit at about 11 p.m. Sunday. The 62-year-old was serving a life sentence for second-degree murder at Archambault Institution. He has a fair complexion, brown eyes and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. professor trapped in Iran says Canada has offered ‘almost nothing’ to help
By Canadian Press on June 23rd, 2025
A British Columbia professor who is trapped in Iran says he’s been told by officials there’s “almost nothing” the Canadian government can do to help him and his family. Simon Fraser University engineering professor Simon Jannesar says in an email that communications are extremely limited and Canadian authorities don’t seem to have a plan to ... Read More »
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