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Timeline: What has happened in Canada since Oct. 7, 2023

OTTAWA - The Oct. 7 attack by Hamas fighters on Israel last year, and the immediate Israeli retaliation that followed, sent shockwaves throughout the world that have shaken Canada culturally and polit...

Oct 7, 2024

Self-identifying Indigenous group got $74M in federal cash, Inuit leader wants change

As millions in federal funding flow into a Labrador group whose claims of Inuit identity have been rejected by Indigenous organizations across Canada, a national Inuit leader worries the Liberal gover...

Oct 7, 2024

Events across Canada set to mark one year since Oct. 7 attacks, Israel-Hamas war

Ceremonies, events and protests are being held across Canada today to mark the anniversary of a Hamas attack on Israel that triggered the ongoing war in Gaza. The Oct. 7, 2023 attack killed more than ...

Sheldon Spackman Oct 7, 2024

More than 1,000 passengers have left Lebanon on flights booked by Canada, GAC says

OTTAWA - Global Affairs Canada says it has now helped more than 1,000 passengers leave Lebanon as the conflict between Israel and the Lebanon-based militant group Hezbollah intensifies. The department...

Oct 6, 2024

Eby supports police on guns and gangs, flanked by four law enforcement candidates

SURREY, B.C. - NDP Leader David Eby is promising to support police in British Columbia in their work to keep illegal guns off the streets and protect communities. Eby, speaking while flanked by four N...

Oct 6, 2024

Where will B.C.'s election be won? Even identifying the battlegrounds is tough call

VANCOUVER - The calculus of predicting an election and identifying its key battlegrounds is complex enough in any race, but observers of the British Columbia poll this month are facing a pair of unkno...

Oct 6, 2024

'We will never be the same': Oct. 7 killing of Montreal native leaves gaping hole

MONTREAL - Raquel Ohnona Look wipes back tears when her eyes fall on the plaque in honour of her son Alexandre, affixed to a bench in a suburban Montreal green space that was recently renamed for him....

Oct 6, 2024

Old Montreal fire under control, 2 bodies pulled from rubble, 40 people evacuated

MONTREAL - Authorities in Montreal say at least two people were killed in a major fire that ravaged a three-storey building in a historic part of the city and forced dozens of people out of the area. ...

Oct 5, 2024

B.C. campaign trail sees party leaders head to the Okanagan

The leaders of both British Columbia's provincial Conservatives and New Democrats are in the Okanagan campaigning today. B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad is in Kelowna while NDP Leader David Eby i...

Oct 5, 2024

'Oct. 7 changed us': Palestinian Canadians with family in Gaza mark a year of war

Fedaa Nassar says any time she has heard the phone ring in the last year, she becomes overwhelmed with anxiety. "I hate phone calls now," says the 34-year-old lab technician at an Ottawa-area hospital...

Oct 5, 2024