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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 »
Be the first to comment!Ottawa set to host Canada Day celebration with Prince Edward, PM Carney
By Canadian Press on July 1st, 2025
OTTAWA — Ottawa’s Canada Day ceremony will be getting the royal treatment today, with Prince Edward set to make a speech during a noon event at LeBreton Flats Park. Prime Minister Mark Carney is also expected to speak at the event on what is his first Canada Day since taking office in March. Canada Day ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Orcas sharing prey with humans may be trying to learn ‘who we are,’ researcher says
By Canadian Press on June 30th, 2025
Jared Towers was in his research vessel on two separate occasions watching killer whales off the coast of Vancouver Island when the orcas dropped their prey directly in front of him and his colleagues. The encounters he describes as “rare” and awe-inspiring have led to a new study published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Comparative ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. government gets report looking into safety at events after Lapu Lapu attack
By Canadian Press on June 30th, 2025
VICTORIA — British Columbia’s attorney general says the government has received a report from a retired judge on ways to improve safety and security at events after 11 people were killed and many more injured at a Vancouver festival. Premier David Eby commissioned the inquiry into safety at community events shortly after a vehicle tore ... Read More »
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