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Quebec parties want vote to end mandatory oath to King Charles

MONTREAL (Reuters) - Quebec Premier Francois Legault said his government would introduce legislation next week to end elected officials' required oath to Britain's King Charles, as pressure mounted in the…

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Canada to boost defence, cyber security in Indo-Pacific policy, focus on ‘disruptive’ China

By David Ljunggren and Ismail Shakil OTTAWA, (Reuters) - Canada launched its long-awaited Indo-Pacific strategy on Sunday, outlining C$2.3 billion ($1.7 billion) in spending to boost military and cyber security…

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Croatia show quality to dispatch Canada 4-1

DOHA (Reuters) - Alphonso Davies netted Canada's first goal at a men's World Cup but it was Croatia, spearheaded by a brace from Andrej Kramaric, who came away with an…

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Batshuayi goal, Courtois penalty save earn Belgium win over Canada

AL RAYYAN, Qatar (Reuters) - Michy Batshuayi scored in the first half and Thibaut Courtois saved a penalty as Belgium opened their World Cup campaign on Wednesday with a scrappy…

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Canada to increase military presence in Indo-Pacific

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will increase its military presence in the Indo-Pacific as part of a soon-to-be released strategy for the region meant to help counter the rising influence of…

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Canada readies new Indo-Pacific strategy amid tense China ties

OTTAWA, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Canada will soon announce a new Indo-Pacific strategy to challenge China on human rights issues while cooperating with the world's second-biggest economy on climate change…

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Canada gains surprise 108,300 jobs in October, jobless rate remains at 5.2%

OTTAWA, Nov 4 (Reuters) - The Canadian economy gained a net 108,300 jobs in October, far exceeding analyst forecasts and entirely recouping losses seen through the summer, while the jobless…

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Quebec wants to end politicians’ mandatory oath to King Charles

MONTREAL (Reuters) - Quebec is ready to introduce legislation that would stop requiring elected officials to swear an oath to Britain's King Charles in the mostly French-speaking Canadian province's national…

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‘Perfect storm’ swirls as Canadians face hot inflation, rising rates

OTTAWA/WINNIPEG, Manitoba, Oct 30 (Reuters) - At a warehouse on an industrial stretch in Ottawa, giant metal crates of donated groceries are piled high as volunteers sort canned goods, pasta…

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Canadian lawmakers reject proposal to cut ties with British monarchy

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian lawmakers rejected a proposal by Canada's Quebec separatist party asking the federal government to sever ties with the British monarchy. The motion by Bloc Quebecois was…

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New handgun sales banned in Canada

(Reuters) - Regulations prohibiting the sale, purchase or transfer of handguns within Canada took effect from Friday, as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the measure builds on earlier efforts…

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World’s female foreign ministers meet to back Iranians

(Reuters) - Canada's foreign minister vowed to support "the incredibly brave women of Iran" as she hosted a virtual meeting with her female counterparts around the world to discuss the…

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Canada’s economy has scope to slow with ‘exceptionally high’ vacant jobs -central bank gov

TORONTO, (Reuters) - Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem said there is scope to slow the economy based on an "exceptionally high number" of job vacancies in the labor market.…

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Canada bans leaders of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards from entry

(Reuters) - Canada said it would ban the top leadership of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) from entering the country and promised more targeted sanctions over the treatment of…

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Border-crossing asylum-seekers hit six-year high in Canada

TORONTO, (Reuters) - The number of asylum-seekers entering Canada between formal border crossings has surged to the highest point since the government started tracking them in 2017, as dropped pandemic…

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UPDATED: Powerful storm Fiona hits Canada’s Nova Scotia

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Powerful storm Fiona slammed into eastern Canada on Saturday with hurricane-force winds, nearly a week after devastating parts of the Caribbean. The U.S.…

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Canada to drop COVID vaccine requirement to enter country on Sept 30

(Reuters) - Canada's federal government will likely drop its COVID-19 vaccine requirement for people entering Canada at the end of the month, a government source said. The source, who was…

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More Canadians see monarchy as ‘outdated’ but political risks block change

OTTAWA (Reuters) - A growing number of Canadians do not want a foreign monarch to represent them despite deep historical ties to Britain and affection for the queen, but risks…

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Canada PM Trudeau declares holiday to mourn Queen Elizabeth

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has declared Monday, the day of Queen Elizabeth's funeral, a federal holiday to mourn the monarch's death. "On September 19, Canadians from…

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New Canadian air rules risk higher costs, fares -airline group

MONTREAL, Sept 8 (Reuters) - Canadian airlines face potentially higher costs as new rules that take effect on Thursday broaden passenger refund requirements to cases of cancelled or long-delayed flights…

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Suspect in Canada stabbing spree dies soon after arrest

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan, (Reuters) - The suspect sought by Canadian authorities in a weekend stabbing spree that killed 10 people in and around an indigenous reserve was arrested on Wednesday but…

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UPDATED: Suspect in deadly mass stabbings eludes Canadian manhunt, motive remains unclear

OTTAWA, Sept 7 (Reuters) - Canadian police searched into a fourth day on Wednesday for the remaining suspect in a stabbing spree in which 10 people were killed in and…

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Canada hunts suspects in stabbing spree that killed 10, wounded 15

WELDON, Saskatchewan, (Reuters) - Canadian police hunted for two suspects in a stabbing spree that killed 10 people and wounded at least 15 others mostly in a sparsely populated indigenous…

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Canada deputy PM Freeland abused in Alberta, Trudeau calls it part of a trend

(Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday condemned an abusive verbal attack on his deputy prime minister and finance minister, Chrystia Freeland, which he described as an "extremely…

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Russia a strategic challenge for NATO in arctic, Stoltenberg says

OTTAWA (Reuters) -Russia's capabilities in the North are a strategic challenge for NATO, its Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday, welcoming Canada's recently announced investments in North American defense…

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Canada on track to exceed lofty 2022 immigration target

Canada is on track to exceed its immigration goal of granting permanent residency to more than 430,000 people in 2022, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said. Fraser, speaking to reporters in…

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Quebec moves to protect French amid Canada’s shift towards English

New figures show that French language use continues to decline in Canada, including in Quebec, the historically Francophone province, where the number of people whose first spoken language is English…

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Prominent Vatican cardinal named in Canada sexual assault lawsuit -filing

Vatican Cardinal Marc Ouellet is the highest-ranking clergyman accused in a court document in Canada made public as part of a class action lawsuit against the Quebec Catholic diocese alleging…

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Toronto suffers massive power outage

TORONTO, Aug 11 (Reuters) - Power was restored in downtown Toronto after an outage left the offices of Canada's top businesses in the dark, forced the evacuation of one of…

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Hate crimes surge in Canada during pandemic

Canada has experienced a sharp rise in hate crimes targeting religion, sexual orientation and race since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data released this week by Statistic…

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Toronto home prices fall for fifth month as ‘significant’ rate hikes dent sentiment

TORONTO, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Home prices in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) fell for the fifth straight month in July, as rapidly rising interest rates further doused the city's once-red-hot housing…

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Pope says hearing pain of Canada school survivors felt like slaps

VATICAN CITY, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Wednesday he felt the pain of survivors of Canada's residential school system "like slaps" and that the Catholic Church has…

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Pope says genocide took place at Church schools in Canada for indigenous children

ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE, July 30 (Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Saturday that what happened at residential schools that the Roman Catholic and other Christian Churches ran to forcefully…

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Pope denounces historical oppression of Canadian indigenous

QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis told indigenous leaders on his last day of his Canadian visit that he was pained that Catholics had supported "oppressive and unjust policies" against them. The…

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Thousands of dead migrant seabirds wash up on Canada shore, avian flu suspected

TORONTO, (Reuters) - The carcasses of thousands of migrant seabirds have washed up on the shores of eastern Canada this week and preliminary findings showed that the birds died of avian flu.…

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Protest over 15th-century land grab doctrine interrupts papal Mass in Canada

(Reuters) - Indigenous activists unfurled a banner demanding Pope Francis rescind 15th-century papal edicts justifying colonialism at a Mass he presided over Thursday, thrusting the doctrine to the forefront of his apology…

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UPDATED: Pope, winding up Canada trip, visits historic churches

QUEBEC CITY, July 28 (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Thursday visits two of the oldest Roman Catholic churches in North America as he winds up a trip to Canada centred…

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Pope: Church must take institutional blame for harm done to indigenous Canadians

LAC STE. ANNE, Alberta, (Reuters) - Pope Francis said the Roman Catholic Church should accept institutional blame for the harm done to indigenous Canadians in residential schools that tried to…

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Pope apologizes for ‘deplorable evil’ of Canadian indigenous schools

Pope Francis apologized on Monday to Canada's native people on their land for the Church's role in schools where indigenous children were abused, branding forced cultural assimilation a "deplorable evil" and…

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Canada police say several victims in British Columbia shooting

There were several victims of a mass shooting early on Monday in the Canadian province of British Columbia and one man was in custody, police said. Authorities had earlier issued an emergency…

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Pope arrives in Canada on tour of ‘penance’ for indigenous abuse

EDMONTON, Alberta (Reuters) -Pope Francis landed in Canada on Sunday to kick off a week-long trip that will center around his apology on behalf of the Roman Catholic Church for the…

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UPDATED: Pope, starting Canada trip, says he has ‘great desire’ to visit Kyiv

EDMONTON, Alberta / ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE, July 24 (Reuters) - Pope Francis landed in Canada on Sunday to kick off a five-day trip that will center around his apology…

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Canadian economists say don’t blame COVID for lack of workers

Canada is in the throes of a serious labour shortage, but economists say it's not all the pandemic's fault — it's the inevitable culmination of a seismic demographic shift decades in…

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When Pope visits Canada, indigenous people look for healing – and action

When Pope Francis travels to Canada, indigenous leaders and residential school survivors say, they are hoping for more than an apology: They want action. Francis, who will be the first…

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Sticker shock, border delays sour hopes for Canadian travel boom

OTTAWA, (Reuters) - Rising prices, border restrictions and airport chaos are threatening hopes for a post-pandemic summer travel boom in Canada, stalling a tourism recovery and taking the sheen off…

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Pope hopes Canada trip will help heal ‘evil’ done to indigenous people

(Reuters) - Pope Francis said on Sunday his trip to Canada next week will be a "pilgrimage of penance" that he hopes can help heal the wrongs done to indigenous…

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Canada’s Freeland says Russian technocrats also responsible for ‘war crimes

NUSA DUA, Indonesia, July 15 (Reuters) - Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland on Friday told Russian officials at a meeting of G20 finance officials that she held them personally responsible…

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WTO awards Canada future right to impose duties on U.S. goods

GENEVA (Reuters) - Canada has the right to impose tariffs on U.S. imports in the future to ward off the threat of the United States penalising Canadian manufacturers for alleged unfair subsidies,…

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Canada’s internet outage caused by router malfunction

(Reuters) - Rogers Communications said that its services were close to fully operational after a massive outage it blamed on a router malfunction after maintenance work. The outage at one of Canada's biggest telecom operators shut…

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Canada swiftly ratifies protocol for Finland, Sweden to join NATO

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada became the first country to formally ratify Finland and Sweden's accession to NATO in an accelerated process completed shortly after member nations signed off on the nuclear-armed alliance's…

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Canada to slap warning labels on sugary, salty and fatty foods

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Foods high in sugars, sodium and saturated fat will come with clear warning labels in Canada starting in 2026, the federal government said this week, in an…

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Two gunmen killed, six officers wounded in shootout at Canadian bank

Canadian police shot dead two men and six officers were wounded during a gunfight at a bank in British Columbia, and nearby homes were evacuated after the discovery of a…

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Canada MPs given panic buttons as threats increase

Canada's members of parliament will be given panic buttons to call police in an emergency, amid growing harassment, intimidation and threats of violence. The move was announced by Public Safety…

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Canada seeks to prosecute some extremely intoxicated people who harm others

Canada's federal government introduced a bill to hold some people criminally responsible if they harm someone else while extremely intoxicated. A person could be held criminally responsible if the self-induced…

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Quebec focuses on French-speaking immigrants as companies plead for workers

Quebec's plans to attract more French-speaking newcomers are unnerving some business owners who say they need immigrants from varied backgrounds to address a tight labor market in the Canadian province.…

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Canada to suspend vaccine mandates for domestic travel, civil service

OTTAWA, (Reuters) - Canada will suspend its requirement to be vaccinated against COVID-19 for domestic travel and to work in the civil service from June 20, the federal government said, after provinces lifted most health…

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Canada and Denmark divide small Arctic island, ending ownership dispute

Denmark and Canada will divide the small, uninhabited island in the Arctic known as Hans Island, ending an almost 50-year long ownership spat, in a largely symbolic act of diplomacy designed to avoid…

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