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Air Canada will cut dozens of daily flights this summer as the airline grapples with a series of challenges amid soaring demand for travel. The changes would see Air Canada reduce its schedule by 77 round trips — or 154 flights — on average, each day during the months of July and August. …

The United States opened the NATO leaders summit in Madrid on Wednesday by putting some serious firepower on the table to bolster the alliance’s defences throughout Europe. It will be adding a rotational brigade of troops to Romania where a battle group led by France was recently established, and plans to further …

Canadian sports icons including Stacey Allaster, Donovan Bailey and Angela James are among the 85 new appointees to the Order of Canada this year. This year’s list of appointees also includes Canada’s first Indigenous female MP, the first MP for Nunavut, and a number of contributors to the arts, including Emmy nominated actress Sandra Oh. …

Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary general of NATO, likely didn’t set out to steal anyone’s thunder — but it was hard for anyone at the G7 Summit in Germany to ignore the man on Monday. Affable, seemingly awkward sometimes, the former prime minister of Norway has been a steady, usually unflappable …

This First Person piece is by Soomaya Javadi who immigrated from Afghanistan to Saskatoon. Javadi is Hazara, an ethnic group that faces discrimination in Afghanistan. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ. I remember the night I arrived in Saskatoon: Oct. 15, 2021. On that cold night, I was welcomed with warm …

Rather than awash in red and white, on July 1, 2021, Winnipeg’s downtown core was full of orange worn by thousands of marchers following the discovery of potential unmarked burial sites on the grounds of former residential schools. At a rally following the march, a statue of Queen Victoria was toppled. It wasn’t the usual Canada Day by …

Selling Russian-owned assets to pay for Ukraine’s reconstruction may sound like a logical approach to restitution, but as the Canadian government gains new powers to begin this process, questions remain about how it will work, and whether some issues are headed to court. C-19, the budget implementation bill, received Royal Assent last Thursday. Among …

The federal public safety minister said he wants people to celebrate Canada Day, but with protests planned for the upcoming holiday weekend in Ottawa, Marco Mendicino says he’s hoping the mistakes of last winter won’t be repeated. “I think Canadians should celebrate Canada Day. We’ve been through a marathon of the …

Earlier this week, regulators in the United States ordered Juul to pull its vaping products from the market, dealing a major blow to one of the most powerful players in the industry. The company is appealing the decision by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), asking a federal court to block a …

The gap between downtown real estate and houses in the suburbs narrowed significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, a development that may make markets outside big cities even more vulnerable to a slowdown. That’s one of the main takeaways from a recently released analysis by the Bank of Canada that looked at …