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Carney meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
By Canadian Press on March 4th, 2026
CANBERRA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the Australian Parliament in Canberra. The prime minister arrived in the Australia capital at about 4 p.m. ET on Wednesday — Thursday morning in Australia — and participated in a welcome ceremony at Parliament House shortly after. He is set ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!CP NewsAlert: Carney meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
By Canadian Press on March 4th, 2026
CANBERRA — Prime Minister Mark Carney is meeting with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the Australian Parliament in Canberra. In a speech in Sydney on Wednesday, Carney urged middle powers to band together and said Canada and Australia share the advantages of legitimacy and trust. More coming. Anja Karadeglija, The Canadian Press... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C. man’s injuries after police altercation ‘looked like a hanging’: hearing told
By Canadian Press on March 4th, 2026
VANCOUVER — A paramedic called to the scene where Myles Gray died during an arrest by several Vancouver police officers told a hearing the man’s injuries looked “like a hanging.” Scott McEwen says the wounds, bruising and discoloration he saw on Gray in 2015 were “visually disturbing” and “traumatizing.” He says Gray had a significant ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Appeal Court tosses case brought by B.C. health executive fired for vaccine refusal
By Canadian Press on March 4th, 2026
VANCOUVER — The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed a bid by a fired B.C. health executive to seek employment insurance benefits, nearly five years after he lost his job for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine on religious grounds. Donald Sturgeon was the Interior Health authority’s executive director of medical affairs, but was fired in November ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Festival celebrates Indigenous cultures through art forms once banned
By Canadian Press on March 4th, 2026
VANCOUVER — Clad in colourful regalia and intricate masks, the Dancers of Damelahamid perform an art form that was once outlawed in Canada. Now, 75 years after the end of the potlatch ban that forbade Indigenous cultural and artistic expression, the group is among dozens of Indigenous performers taking part in a festival that celebrates ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Vancouver Mayor Sim sends apology to Chinese media over drug slur of his opponent
By Canadian Press on March 4th, 2026
VANCOUVER — Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is filling the gaps left in his apologies to fellow Coun. Sean Orr, who he falsely accused of distributing illegal drugs after being shown a photo that he didn’t verify. The mayor’s office says Sim’s apology has been sent out to Chinese-language media, the same group who heard the ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘We can set the agenda’: Carney continues middle power pitch in Australia
By Canadian Press on March 4th, 2026
SYDNEY — Prime Minister Mark Carney took his middle-powers speech from the World Economic Forum earlier this year to an audience in Australia on Wednesday, where he also discussed the difficulties of negotiating with U.S. President Donald Trump. Hitting many of the same points he did in his headline-making speech in Davos, Switzerland in January, ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Poilievre pitches Germany on Canada as reliable LNG supplier in Berlin speech
By Canadian Press on March 4th, 2026
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre on Wednesday pitched Canada to a German audience as a reliable energy supplier in a period of global uncertainty. Poilievre was in Berlin as part of a trip to Europe that has seen him meet in recent days with business leaders and conservative counterparts in the United Kingdom. His ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Foreign Affairs Minister Anand says NATO must turn its focus to the North
By Canadian Press on March 4th, 2026
OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand touted Canada’s new commitment to defence spending and the domestic defence sector and called for a NATO policy pivot to the Arctic at a major defence and security conference in Ottawa on Wednesday. “We’re reaching two per cent of GDP this year and five per cent of GDP ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Carney supports U.S. strikes on Iran ‘with regret’ — what are other leaders saying?
By Canadian Press on March 4th, 2026
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday Canada supports U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran “with regret” — making him just one among many world leaders struggling in recent days to respond to a volatile new conflict. In Australia for a diplomatic and trade mission, Carney called the conflict “another example of the failure ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!B.C.’s Eby is urging West Coast governors to fall in line with daylight time change
By Canadian Press on March 4th, 2026
VICTORIA — British Columbia is urging U.S. states along the West Coast to fall in line with the provincial government’s decision to adopt permanent daylight time. Premier David Eby announced Monday that the province will spring forward one last time this Sunday when standard time ends, but it won’t revert when the clocks change elsewhere ... Read More »
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