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Trudeau vows to defend abortion rights after U.S. Supreme Court move

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed to defend abortion rights as the decades-old battle over the issue exploded anew this week in Canada's southern neighbour, with the U.S. Supreme Court…

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Graying of Canada’s workforce threatens to worsen labor crunch

Canadians nearing retirement outnumbered those entering the workforce by a record margin in 2021, census data released this week showed, raising fears the country's labor shortage could worsen in coming…

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Canada would be supportive of Sweden and Finland joining NATO -PM Trudeau

Canada would support including Sweden and Finland in the NATO military alliance, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine has prompted both countries to consider joining. "Conversations…

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Canada inflation could be at peak, but that’s little relief for central bank

OTTAWA, April 21 (Reuters) - Canada's headline inflation may have peaked after hitting a 31-year high in March, economists said, though the central bank still faces an uphill battle to bring rocketing…

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Canada to keep mask mandate

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's government said it has no plans to stop requiring masks on planes after a Florida judge struck down a U.S. version of the law. "We are taking a…

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Canada to deploy military personnel to Poland to support Ukrainian refugees

Canada will deploy up to 150 military personnel to Poland to support Ukrainians fleeing Russia's war and address a growing refugee crisis, Defense Minister Anita Anand said. Most of those…

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Global donors pledge 9.1 billion euros to support Ukrainian refugees

BRUSSELS, April 9 (Reuters) - Donors including the Canadian government and the European Commission on Saturday pledged a combined 9.1 billion euros in donations, loans and grants to support refugees fleeing the…

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Canada’s jobless rate at record low 5.3% as economy adds 72,500 jobs

OTTAWA, (Reuters) - Canada's unemployment rate fell to 5.3% in March, the lowest level on record, highlighting the tightening of the country's labor market, Statistics Canada data showed on Friday, with the…

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Canada to raise military spending and review defense goals, cites Russia war

OTTAWA, April 7 (Reuters) - Canada will boost military spending slightly over the next five years and review its overall defense policy in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the…

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Canada expected to boost defense spending by as much as C$8 billion in 2022 budget -CBC News

(Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government is expected to boost defense spending by as much as C$8 billion ($6.38 billion) in its 2022 budget due on Thursday, the Canadian…

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Pope apologises to Canadian indigenous for wrongs at residential schools

VATICAN CITY, April 1 (Reuters) - Pope Francis apologised to Canadian indigenous peoples on Friday for the Catholic Church's role in residential schools that sought to erase their cultures and…

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Canada indigenous ask pope for residential schools records

Survivors of Canada's residential schools on Monday asked Pope Francis to guarantee unfettered access to Church records on the institutions where indigenous children were abused and their culture denied. Francis…

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Canada qualify for World Cup for the first time since 1986

Canada qualified for the World Cup finals for just the second time on Sunday, beating Jamaica 4-0 to book their ticket to Qatar and end 36 years of failure and heartache. While Canada celebrated, Mexico and…

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Canada to increase defense spending, impose new sanctions on Russia

Canada will continue to increase its defense spending, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, as he announced new sanctions against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. "Canada will be increasing pressure…

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Canada’s Trudeau strikes deal to keep Liberals in power until 2025

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Tuesday the ruling Liberal Party and the opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) have reached a tentative agreement for the NDP to support his…

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Parents up in arms against an Ontario school board’s move to keep masks on

As students in Canada's most populous province return to mask-free classes after two years on Monday, one Ontario school board is facing backlash for defying the province's decision to drop…

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Canada to ditch pre-arrival COVID testing requirement for travelers -source

(Reuters) - Canada will remove the need for incoming fully vaccinated travelers to get tested for COVID-19 before entering the country, starting on April 1, a source familiar with the plan said.…

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Canada inflation surges to fresh 30-year high

March 16 (Reuters) - Canada's annual inflation rate accelerated in February to hit a fresh 30-year high, with broad price gains hitting consumers at the gas pumps, in the grocery store and…

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Britain searches for helicopters, jets belonging to sanctioned Russians, Canada sanctions billionaire Roman Abramovich

LONDON, March 11 (Reuters) - Britain is searching out the helicopters and jets belonging to sanctioned Russian oligarchs and has asked the Isle of Man to deregister Chelsea soccer club…

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Russia demands that Baltic countries protect its embassies, Canada tells citizens to leave Russia

Moscow demanded that authorities in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania take measures to protect Russia's embassies after a Russian diplomat was attacked in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius, the Russian RIA news…

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Canada shuts ports to Russian ships

TORONTO, (Reuters) - Canada ratcheted up pressure on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine by shutting ports to Russian-owned ships and saying that holdings of all Russian oligarchs and companies in the…

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Canada to supply anti-tank weapons to Ukraine, ban Russian oil imports

Canada will supply anti-tank weapons and upgraded ammunition to Ukraine to support its fight against a Russian invasion, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Monday, and it will ban imports…

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Canadian telecom firms block Russian state-owned broadcaster RT

Major Canadian cable operators said they would drop Russian state-owned broadcaster RT from their channel line-up in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Rogers Communications RCIb.TO and BCE Inc's BCE.TO Bell said in separate…

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Canada says Russian airline Aeroflot violated its airspace

TORONTO (Reuters) - Russian airline Aeroflot on Sunday violated a ban on aircraft from the country using Canadian airspace, regulator Transport Canada said, on the same day the restriction was imposed in response…

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World powers unite against Russia in new concerted sanctions move

Feb 26 (Reuters) - Washington and its allies moved on Saturday to block some Russian banks' access to the SWIFT international payment system as part of more sanctions against Moscow as it…

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US, UK, Europe, Canada to block Russian access to SWIFT – UPDATED

WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS, Feb 26 (Reuters) - The United States, Britain, Europe and Canada on Saturday moved to block Russia's access to the SWIFT international payment system as part of another round of sanctions…

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Canada’s capital secured and cleaned up after weeks-long protest

OTTAWA, (Reuters) - Canadian police over the weekend secured the downtown core of the capital with fencing as city workers cleaned up trash and snow plows cleared streets after two days of…

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Canada police set to end siege of capital by protesters fighting COVID measures

OTTAWA, Feb 18 (Reuters) - Canadian police are poised to clear out on Friday hundreds of truck drivers from Ottawa who have staged a three-week-long protest against pandemic restrictions that has crippled…

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UPDATED: Canada’s Trudeau cites threat to democracy as Ottawa protesters vow to stay

OTTAWA, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has accused protestors encamped in downtown Ottawa of engaging in acts that represented "a threat to our democracy" as demonstrators continued a…

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Canadian government wants to quickly clear COVID protest blockades in Ottawa

OTTAWA, Feb 16 (Reuters) - The Canadian government, armed with new emergency powers, is promising quick action to clear a three-week old truckers' blockade that has brought the center of the capital…

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Canada to ease travel requirements as COVID cases decline

OTTAWA, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Canada will ease entry for fully vaccinated international travelers starting on Feb. 28 as COVID-19 cases decline, allowing a rapid antigen test for travelers instead of a…

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Updated: Canadian rescue services recover 10 bodies from sunk Spanish trawler

MADRID, Feb 16 (Reuters) - Sea rescue services from the Canadian city of Halifax found and recovered 10 bodies from a Spanish trawler that sank off the eastern coast of…

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Canada’s Trudeau to invoke emergency powers to end protests, police break up armed group

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau plans to invoke rarely used special measures allowing him to tackle protests that have shut some border crossings and paralyzed downtown Ottawa. In the province of Alberta…

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Ambassador Bridge, vital to U.S.-Canada trade, reopens after police clear protesters

WASHINGTON/OTTAWA, (Reuters) - North America's busiest trade link reopened for traffic late Sunday evening, ending a six-day blockade, Canada Border Services Agency said, after Canadian police cleared the protesters fighting…

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Canadian trucker protest forces some companies to use air transport

Automakers and some manufacturers are looking to the skies as they seek alternatives for moving products caught up in Canadian trucking protests that have hit supply chains on both sides…

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Canada’s population surges from 2016-2021 on immigration-official data

Canada's population rose to 37 million people in 2021, up 5.2% from 2016, driven mostly by immigration, according to official data released this week, with the downtowns and distant suburbs…

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Protesters defy injunction order, continue to occupy key U.S.-Canada bridge

WINDSOR, Ontario/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A judge ordered an end to the four-day-long blockade of a Canada-U.S. trade corridor by anti-coronavirus mandate protesters and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised President Joe…

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A look at the Ottawa protests: What you need to know about the anti-vaccine convoys

Horn-blaring demonstrations demanding an end to Canadian COVID-19 vaccine mandates have caused gridlock in the capital Ottawa since late January. The protests by truckers and others are now spilling to…

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U.S. presses Canada on border blockage

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Thursday urged Canada to use federal powers to ease the disruption at the U.S.-Canada border caused by a protest against anti-coronavirus mandates that…

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As U.S.-Canada border closures risk trade, more govt action is likely

Feb 10 (Reuters) - The business impact from U.S.-Canada border closures is bringing fresh urgency to Canadian authorities' efforts to quell the two-week-old protests against the government's pandemic measures, even…

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Paris and Brussels police ban ‘Freedom Convoy’ protests

Brussels bans 'freedom convoy' protesting COVID curbs from entry BRUSSELS, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Brussels authorities have banned a pan-European "freedom convoy" of motorists protesting COVID-19 restrictions from entering the…

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Trudeau slams protests as ‘unacceptable’ as police warn truckers

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has hit out at protests by truckers around the country as "unacceptable". Speaking to parliament in Ottawa, he defended the Covid restrictions that have prompted…

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Pandemic border protests strand cattle and car parts, snarling Canada-U.S. trade

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Protests in Canada against vaccine mandates have disrupted two key U.S. border crossings, and are snarling hundreds of millions of dollars daily of trade, ranging from cattle…

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Key U.S.-Canada border crossing blocked by truckers fighting Trudeau’s COVID curbs

The busiest land crossing from the United States to Canada remained shut after Canadian truckers blocked lanes on Monday to protest their government's pandemic control measures. While traffic in both…

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Canada police seen getting tough as trucker protests continue

OTTAWA, Feb 7 (Reuters) - As the protest against the Canadian government's health measures and vaccine mandates entered an eleventh day on Monday, police have threatened to clamp down after…

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Thousands protest vaccine mandates in Canada, further fraying nerves

Thousands of people demonstrated in Canadian cities, including the financial hub Toronto, on Saturday as mostly peaceful but noisy protests against vaccine mandates spread from Ottawa, the capital. The "Freedom…

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Canada rules out use of troops against truckers’ blockade; more protests planned

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian government will not use troops against truckers whose nearly week-long protest of coronavirus vaccine mandates has brought traffic in central Ottawa to a halt, Prime…

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Canadian dollar forecasts turn more bullish as oil hits 7-year high

TORONTO, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Canada's dollar will strengthen more than previously thought over the coming year as oil prices climb and investors bet the Bank of Canada will hike…

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Canadian Conservative Party leader ousted in boost for PM Trudeau

OTTAWA, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Canadian Conservative lawmakers on Wednesday ousted Erin O'Toole as leader, angry over the main opposition party's third straight loss to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberals…

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Canada’s Quebec scraps plan for health tax on unvaccinated people

The Canadian province of Quebec is scrapping a plan that would make adults who refuse COVID-19 vaccines pay a special health contribution, premier Francois Legault announced on Tuesday, saying the…

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Canada protest against COVID vaccine mandates blocks Ottawa for second day

OTTAWA, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Dozens of trucks and other vehicles blocked the downtown area of Ottawa for a second day after thousands descended on Canada's capital city on Saturday…

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Canada beats US to close in on World Cup berth

(AFP/Reuters) - Canada took a giant step towards their first World Cup qualification in 36 years on Sunday. Canada struck early and again late on to defeat the U.S. men's…

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Canada has moved past the worst of the Omicron wave

Canada has moved past the worst of the Omicron variant of coronavirus on some parameters, but Canadians still need to be prudent as hospitalizations were continuing to rise, the country's…

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Canada pledges non-lethal support for Ukraine, extends training mission

Canada said it would send non-lethal equipment to Ukraine, and help the Eastern European country gather intelligence and counter cyber attacks as Russia builds up its military presence on its…

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Canadian hospitals strain as Omicron hits health workers

TORONTO/MONTREAL, Jan 24 (Reuters) - After a year as an emergency department nurse at a busy Toronto hospital in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, Aimee Earhart called it quits…

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Canada’s Omicron wave may have peaked; hospitals still under strain

Canada is seeing early signs that a wave of infections caused by the Omicron variant of COVID-19 may have peaked, but hospitals are still under intense strain, chief public health…

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U.S. charges man with human smuggling after 4, including a baby, freeze to death near Canada border

U.S. authorities charged a man with human smuggling of Indian nationals from Canada, the day after four people including a baby were found frozen to death in a remote part…

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