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Pet abandonments in Quebec used to spike around Canada Day; now they're year-round
MONTREAL - Canada Day has traditionally been synonymous in Montreal with moving day: piles of junk on street corners, sweaty bodies carrying couches up and down the city's winding staircases - and a s...
Jul 01, 2025
From bulky car phones to pocket computers, cellphones mark 40 years in Canada
MONTREAL - Pierre Robitaille remembers feeling embarrassed in 1985 when he made his cellphone calls from a bulky device that came with its own carrying case. Now 86 years old, Robitaille was one of th...
Jul 01, 2025
Barcelona records the hottest June in over 100 years as a heat wave grips Europe
PARIS (AP) - Barcelona has recorded its hottest month of June since records started over a century ago, Spain's national weather service said. The Can Fabra Observatory, located on a hill overlooking ...
Jul 01, 2025
B.C. reports offer 'road map' for repatriation of Indigenous items, remains
A pair of reports out of British Columbia are detailing the complex, expensive and under resourced process of repatriating Indigenous historical items or remains back to their homes. The studies, deve...
Jul 01, 2025
Ottawa set to host Canada Day celebration with Prince Edward, PM Carney
OTTAWA - Ottawa's Canada Day ceremony will be getting the royal treatment today, with Prince Edward set to make a speech during a noon event at LeBreton Flats Park. Prime Minister Mark Carney is also ...
Jul 01, 2025
There's no one way to be a Canadian: Culture Minister Steven Guilbeault
OTTAWA - Steven Guilbeault, federal minister of identity and culture, came to his new job just as the whole country was looking at itself in the mirror. Guilbeault took on the new ministry - which rep...
Jul 01, 2025
B.C. reports offer 'road map' for repatriation of Indigenous items, remains
A pair of reports out of British Columbia are detailing the complex, expensive and under resourced process of repatriating Indigenous historical items or remains back to their homes. The studies, deve...
Jul 01, 2025
Thai court suspends Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra over a leaked phone call
BANGKOK (AP) - Thailand's Constitutional Court suspended Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra from office pending an investigation over a leaked phone call with a former Cambodian leader. The judges ...
Jun 30, 2025
Bryan Kohberger to plead guilty to murder in Idaho student stabbings to avoid death penalty
BOISE, Idaho (AP) - Bryan Kohberger has agreed to plead guilty to murdering four University of Idaho students as part of a deal to avoid the death penalty, an attorney for one victim's family said. Sh...
Jun 30, 2025
Death toll rises to 36 following an explosion and fire at a southern India pharmaceutical factory
HYDERABAD, India (AP) - The death toll from Monday's massive explosion and fire at a pharmaceutical factory in India's southern state of Telangana has risen to at least 36 while about three dozen are ...
Jun 30, 2025
