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Conservatives focus on homebuilding, Liberals on health care as advance voting ends
By Canadian Press on April 21st, 2025
OTTAWA — The final week of the federal election campaign kicked off Monday with the major party leaders scattered across the country. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said at an event in Scarborough, Ont., that his party would release its costed platform on Tuesday, a day after advance voting closes. “Tomorrow we will have a platform ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Humility, compassion and care for others’: How Canadians are remembering Pope Francis
By Canadian Press on April 21st, 2025
Canadians are reacting to Pope Francis’s death on Easter Monday, which came more than two months after he was hospitalized for a respiratory infection. Here’s what some notable Canadians have to say. “Pope Francis was a voice of moral clarity, spiritual courage, and boundless compassion. He was in many respects the world’s conscience — never ... Read More »
1 responseSome emergency departments installing AI weapons detection amid rising violence
By Canadian Press on April 21st, 2025
TORONTO — London Health Sciences Centre is the latest Canadian hospital to install a weapons detection system in its emergency department as health-care workers across the country continue to grapple with increasing violence. The southwestern Ontario health-care network started using one of the artificial intelligence-driven systems at its University Hospital site on April 15 and ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In the news today: Pope Francis dies at age 88
By Canadian Press on April 21st, 2025
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Pope Francis dies at age 88 Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who charmed the world with his humble style and concern for the poor but alienated conservatives with critiques of capitalism and climate change, died Monday. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In the news today: Canadians remember pope for historic apology
By Canadian Press on April 21st, 2025
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Canadians remember pope for historic apology Pope Francis will be remembered by Canadian Catholics as a progressive leader whose approach to the papacy helped usher in a new era of Indigenous relations and make the church more responsive ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Pope Francis apologized for residential schools on historic Canadian visit
By Canadian Press on April 21st, 2025
On a warm July day in 2022, thousands of dignitaries, Indigenous leaders and residential school survivors travelled from across Canada to powwow grounds in central Alberta. For some, the journey took days. For others, decades. They had all come to hear Pope Francis apologize for the Catholic Church’s role in residential schools. Francis died Monday ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Canadians remember Pope Francis for historic apology for residential schools
By Canadian Press on April 21st, 2025
TORONTO — Pope Francis will be remembered by Canadian Catholics as a progressive leader whose approach to the papacy helped usher in a new era of Indigenous relations and make the church more responsive to its rank and file. The Vatican says the pontiff died Monday at age 88. Francis was the global leader of ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!In the news today: Advance polls open for final day before election
By Canadian Press on April 21st, 2025
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed… Advance polls open for final day before election Canadians hoping to vote early in the upcoming federal election have until the end of the day to visit an advance polling station as the campaign enters its final week. ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!Advance polls open for last day as election campaign heads into final week
By Canadian Press on April 21st, 2025
OTTAWA — Canadians hoping to vote early in the upcoming federal election have until the end of the day to visit an advance polling station as the campaign enters its final week. Today is the fourth and final day that advance polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. before the general election ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!‘Overwhelming’: Saskatoon drugs crisis far reaching with deaths and hundreds of calls
By Canadian Press on April 20th, 2025
SASKATOON — The black concrete walls outside Saskatoon’s only safe consumption site show the wake left by the city’s drug crisis. The names of those who’ve died, most from drug poisoning, are scrawled on the Prairie Harm Reduction building. Kim Randall, the director of support services, points to the name of a woman who went ... Read More »
Be the first to comment!NDP, Conservatives focus on battleground B.C. heading into final election week
By Canadian Press on April 20th, 2025
OTTAWA — The Conservatives and NDP spent the weekend hunting votes in British Columbia — a key late-campaign battleground that one pollster says may offer Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre his best shot at victory. Both Poilievre and NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh addressed Canadians’ cost-of-living concerns at campaign events in B.C. on Sunday. Singh was asked ... Read More »
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