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Mark Carney names Kirsten Hillman chief negotiator with U.S.
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. Pri...
Jun 23, 2025
PWHL Vancouver names Brian Idalski first head coach of expansion team
VANCOUVER - The Professional Women's Hockey League's new team in Vancouver has named Brian Idalski its first head coach. Idalski joins the expansion side following three seasons at St. Cloud State Uni...
Jun 23, 2025
Newly launched Access to Information review is flawed, transparency advocates say
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 re...
Jun 23, 2025
Parks Canada says site of fatal rockfall in Banff National Park remains closed
Parks Canada says the site remains closed where a rockfall killed two hikers and injured three more last week in Banff National Park.Spokeswoman Amy Krause says safety is the agency's top priority and...
Jun 23, 2025
Canada's Diallo picks up another win on grass as Wimbledon draws near
Montreal's Gabriel Diallo picked up another win on grass as Canada's tennis players continued to prepare for Wimbledon. The 23-year-old Diallo advanced to the second round of the Mallorca Championship...
Jun 23, 2025
Third day of searching for four missing in Quebec medical helicopter crash
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 ...
Jun 23, 2025
Canada's next national census set for May 2026
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 w...
Jun 23, 2025
Convicted killer, 62, escapes from Archambault Institution in Quebec
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 ...
Jun 23, 2025
B.C. professor trapped in Iran says Canada has offered 'almost nothing' to help
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 enginee...
Jun 23, 2025
Orcas use kelp tools to groom and bond off B.C.'s coast, study suggests
In pricey spas, kelp facials and body wraps can set the esthetically inclined human back hundreds of dollars. But in the Salish Sea off British Columbia, southern resident killer whales are also using...
Jun 23, 2025