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Treaty 6 First Nations part of JUNO nominated Indigenous group
From the traditional lands of Treaty 6 territory to the biggest stage in Canadian music, one band still can't believe they're headed to the JUNOS.Last week, the nominations for the 2024 JUNO Awards we...
Feb 14, 2024

Canada announces Ukraine $60M for F-16 supplies and equipment ahead of NATO meeting
Defence Minister Bill Blair says Canada will send Ukraine $60 million to support its F-16 fighter aircraft. The government says the money is part of the $500 million in military support announced last...
Feb 14, 2024

Ukrainian military says it sank a Russian landing ship in the Black Sea
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Ukraine's military said Wednesday it sank a Russian landing ship in the Black Sea using naval drones, a report that has not been confirmed by Russian forces. The Caesar Kunikov am...
Feb 14, 2024

In the news today: Trudeau denounces protest outside Toronto's Mount Sinai hospital
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Protest outside Mount Sinai Hospital 'reprehensible' show of antisemitism: Trud...
Feb 14, 2024

NDP to move bill calling for ban of coal exports as Canadian output booms
OTTAWA - Canadian exports of the kind of coal used to make electricity hit an eight-year high in 2022, even as the Liberals have promised to work on banning exports completely by the end of the decade...
Feb 14, 2024

Once-moribund Parti Québécois is resurgent, but support for independence staying flat
MONTREAL - Almost a year and a half after it was widely seen as being near death, the Parti Qubcois is topping provincial polls. And the party's leader, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, is the seen as the be...
Feb 14, 2024

Evolving 'Freedom' movement fighting perceptions of 'government overreach': CSIS
OTTAWA - The loosely knit collective that vocally opposed COVID-19 health measures has morphed into a movement waging a broader fight against "perceived government overreach," says a newly released as...
Feb 14, 2024

Fewer than half of people support assisted death exclusively for mental illness: poll
OTTAWA - Fewer than half of Canadians feel medical assistance in dying should be available to people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness, the results of a new survey showed Wednesday. As...
Feb 14, 2024

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in Whistler, B.C., for Invictus Games training camp
WHISTLER, B.C. - Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle plan to spend Valentine's Day in Whistler, B.C., this year to attend a training camp one year ahead of the 2025 Invictus Games. Prince Harry is...
Feb 14, 2024

UN tech envoy worries corporate profits will trump public interest on AI
MONTREAL - The United Nations' top tech official fears that corporate interests may undermine the push to rein in artificial intelligence, exacerbating social divisions and encroaching on human rights...
Feb 14, 2024