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As forest fires raged Wednesday in western Canada, the provincial government extended a state of emergency and announced aid for tens of thousands of people evacuated because of the disaster.
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Montr -
Quebec police are investigating who sent a a desecrated Koran to a Quebec mosque where a white supremacist killed six people in a shooting in January, a police spokesman said Wednesday.
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Washington -
The Trump administration's plans to reframe the landmark North American Free Trade Agreement faces significant hurdles and includes some elements Canadians and Mexicans may find hard to swallow, analysts warn.
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Montr -
Tens of thousands of people who fled wildfires in western Canada were unable to return home Tuesday as the massive blazes raged on.
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Washington -
The United States on Monday said it would work to shrink trade deficits with Canada and Mexico in talks to renegotiate the landmark 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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Washington -
The United States on Monday said it would work to shrink trade deficits with Canada and Mexico in talks to renegotiate the landmark 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
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Quebec City -
If the progressive rockers who briefly dominated the cultural landscape in the 1970s were just getting started today, how would they sound? Perhaps like the band Atsuko Chiba.
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Montr -
Thousands of people fled their homes in western Canada over the weekend as strong winds fanned forest fires that have ravaged British Columbia province for more than a week.
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Quebec City -
The top names in music playing some of their careers' largest shows, with tickets selling for a sliver of the price they usually command...
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Bangkok -
A 26-year-old Canadian found dead in his Thai police cell this week was wanted in the US for allegedly running a massive "dark web" marketplace for drugs and other contraband, a police source told AFP Saturday.
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Marseille -
The former "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson has dropped out of a pop-up vegan restaurant project on the French Riviera just days after its opening, saying the venture did not meet "expectations or agreements".
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Statistics Canada released the latest numbers on the country's economy Friday, reporting that 45,000 jobs were added in June, nudging the unemployment rate down to 6.5 percent.
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Brussels -
The CETA free-trade agreement between the European Union and Canada will be applied provisionally from September 21, the two sides announced in a joint statement on Saturday.
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The Canadian government on Friday issued an official apology and paid damages to a former Guantanamo detainee who was captured in Afghanistan at the age of 15 and had pleaded guilty to killing a US soldier.
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Canada is set to apologize and award millions of dollars of compensation to a former Guantanamo detainee who was captured in Afghanistan at the age of 15 and pleaded guilty to killing a US soldier, reports said Tuesday.
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Dublin -
Britain and the United States are "turning inward," Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at a press conference with his Irish counterpart on Tuesday in which both leaders took swipes at their heavyweight neighbours.
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An air force pilot and a lecturer at the University of Cambridge have been named Canada’s newest astronauts, joining David St. Jacques and Jeremy Hansen as future Canadian representatives in space!
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Toronto -
Canada releases world's first glow-in-the-dark coin to mark 150th anniversary of Canada's confederation. The coin features two people paddling in a canoe against a backdrop of the northern lights.
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Washington -
An embattled Canadian mining company said Thursday it will go after the Romanian government for blocking its attempts to develop a massive gold mine that could bring in billions of dollars.Gabriel Resources is seeking $4.
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Ottawa -
Canada will continue to train Kurdish militia for another two years as part of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group in Iraq, the defense minister announced Thursday.
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Ottawa -
Canada is close to implementing a free trade deal with the European Union, but one last detail remains to be ironed out -- what cheeses Canadian distributors can import, sources said Monday.
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Ottawa -
A former nurse who confessed to murdering eight elderly residents who were under her care at retirement homes in eastern Canada was sentenced Monday to life in prison.
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London -
Megan Couto on Monday became the first female officer to command the troops protecting Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace, as a Canadian battalion took over guard duties.
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More than 3,000 Indigenous communities in Canada have been added to Google Maps and Google Earth. The move will allow the properties of 1.4 million indigenous people across the country, who have been historically excluded, to be represented in a base map.
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Quebec City -
Tattooed and wearing a black t-shirt emblazoned with a wolf paw, Patrick Beaudry admits being in the second year of a political movement "that is perhaps more radical" than others.
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Montr -
Sears Canada filed for court protection from creditors Thursday as the onetime retail giant seeks to adapt to a changed landscape and tougher online competition.
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Nice -
Pamela Anderson long ago swapped "Baywatch" for animal rights activism -- but the actress has now added another string to her bow by opening a French restaurant, with President Emmanuel Macron receiving an open invite.
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New York -
The first person to survive a death-defying plunge into Niagara Falls without protection has died after apparently attempting the feat again in an inflatable ball, according to US media.
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Ottawa -
Canada's electronic eavesdropping agency warned Friday that hackers and foreign states may try to sway its elections in 2019, after so-called hacktivists tried but failed to influence the 2015 ballot that brought Justin Trudeau's Liberals to power.
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Miami -
Reggaeton music has long been a fixture in nightclubs around the Spanish-speaking world, but that hasn't brought it critical acceptance, with the genre rooted in Puerto Rico's marginalized communities.
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The next planetary alignment of Mars, the Moon and Venus on March 15, 2022.
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Don't Attack Iraq! Don't Attack Syria! Peace rally in Edmonton on October 25, 2014.
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A vast swath of boreal forest supports many kinds of wildlife in Canada. PEW
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Muskrat in Toronto's Tommy Thompson Park
BIll C-51 protest in Edmonton on April 18, 2015. Dale Ladouceur and Inuit throat singer Jenna Joyce Broomfield perform.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper speaks at a media event in Toronto.
Rosannagh Maclennan wins Trampoline gold: Gold medallist Rosannagh Maclennan of Canada stands with her medal after Trampoline on Day 8 of the Olympic Games at North Greenwich Arena London2012
Toronto Ontario, Canada - June 5, 2012. Greg Taylor, left and Cam Heaps, two of the three co-founders sit across from each other in the companies open concept office amonst their employees. The third co-founder Greg Cromwell lives in Australia. Located in a former Canadian Pacific Rail steam locomotive roundhouse, Steam Whistle brewery produces an average of 120,000 bottles of their Pilsner beer every day. During June and July their production will double to keep pace with demand. The company is
Cover: 'The Luminaries' by Eleanor Catton. Governor General's Literary Award for novel McClelland & Stewart
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Easter weekend activity at Stave Lake, Maple Ridge, BC, Canada.
Thousands of Canadians ascended on the National War Memorial in Ottawa today to commemorate the veterans of Vimy Ridge. This was the 93rd anniversary of the pivotal Battle of Vimy Ridge, but this years Ceremony was much higher key than previous years because of the death of Canada’s last World War One Veteran John Babcock. Mr Babcock died at age 109 this past February. In attendance was Canada’s Governor General and Prime Minister Stephen Harper who took some time to greet some of the war ve
St. Patrick's Day parade in downtown Vancouver.
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