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Montreal’s move to biweekly trash pick up proving to be a slow process
By Canadian Press on July 2nd, 2025
MONTREAL — The garbage may be piling up and causing some disgruntlement on the sidewalks of a few Montreal streets, but municipal officials say it’s all part of a plan to become a zero-waste city by the year 2030. And they say their plan is working. “People are making progress in their thinking, realizing that ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada Day celebrations draw thousands, as Carney says values are under pressure
By Canadian Press on July 1st, 2025
OTTAWA — Canadians took to parks and civic squares across the country Tuesday to show unity on Canada Day amid American threats, economic uncertainty and Western alienation. “We’ve decided not to pull apart and fight, but to come together and to build. Because that’s the Canadian way,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said to thousands of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canada-U.S. citizen in custody in deadly St. Lawrence River human smuggling case
By Canadian Press on July 1st, 2025
WASHINGTON — A dual Canadian-American citizen that United States authorities allege was part of a deadly human smuggling operation that left migrants drowned in the St. Lawrence River was arrested last month. The U.S. Justice Department says 34-year-old Timothy Oakes was arrested as he attempted to enter the United States on June 15. Oakes, who ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carney says values being tested by attacks on democracy in Canada Day speech
By Canadian Press on July 1st, 2025
OTTAWA — Ottawa’s Canada Day ceremony featured leaders touting national unity in a world shaken by wars, American threats and economic uncertainty. “We’ve decided not to pull apart and fight, but to come together and to build. Because that’s the Canadian way,” Prime Minister Mark Carney said to thousands of Canadians gathered in the nation’s ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Quebec’s traditional moving day arrives as thousands still looking for new homes
By Canadian Press on July 1st, 2025
MONTREAL — More than 2,000 Quebec households are seeking help in finding new housing on the province’s traditional moving day. Most residential leases in Quebec end June 30, resulting in a mass movement of trucks and people as residents simultaneously shift to new homes. The provincial agency responsible for housing keeps a running tally of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Family of N.S. man found dead in Dominican Republic asks help to bring remains home
By Canadian Press on July 1st, 2025
The family of a Canadian tourist who was found dead in a northern part of the Dominican Republic is raising money to bring his remains home. Dorian Christian MacDonald, 33, was found dead in the water on a beach in the Puerto Plata resort town of Maimon Bay around 3 a.m. on June 20. Global ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Ottawa hosting Canada Day celebration with Prince Edward, PM Carney
By Canadian Press on July 1st, 2025
OTTAWA — Ottawa’s Canada Day ceremony is getting the royal treatment, with Prince Edward praising Canada’s unity and accomplishments in a speech during a noon event at LeBreton Flats Park. Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canadians have chosen to unite despite living in a fractured world with economic pressures and insecurity, in what is his ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!From bulky car phones to pocket computers, cellphones mark 40 years in Canada
By Canadian Press on July 1st, 2025
MONTREAL — Pierre Robitaille remembers feeling embarrassed in 1985 when he made his cellphone calls from a bulky device that came with its own carrying case. Now 86 years old, Robitaille was one of the first people in Canada to sign up for a wireless plan when they became available 40 years ago, on July ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pet abandonments in Quebec used to spike around Canada Day; now they’re year-round
By Canadian Press on July 1st, 2025
MONTREAL — Canada Day has traditionally been synonymous in Montreal with moving day: piles of junk on street corners, sweaty bodies carrying couches up and down the city’s winding staircases — and a spike in abandoned animals at shelters. However, Montreal’s SPCA is no longer seeing a big jump in animal surrenders around July 1, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. reports offer ‘road map’ for repatriation of Indigenous items, remains
By Canadian Press on July 1st, 2025
A pair of reports out of British Columbia are detailing the complex, expensive and under resourced process of repatriating Indigenous historical items or remains back to their homes. The studies, developed in partnership between the First Peoples’ Cultural Council and K’yuu Enterprise Corporation, call for changes including the creation of a centralized body to facilitate ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!There’s no one way to be a Canadian: Culture Minister Steven Guilbeault
By Canadian Press on July 1st, 2025
OTTAWA — Steven Guilbeault, federal minister of identity and culture, came to his new job just as the whole country was looking at itself in the mirror. Guilbeault took on the new ministry — which replaces the old heritage ministry and takes up responsibility for Parks Canada — as U.S. President Donald Trump was ramping ... Read More »
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