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Parks Canada shuttering Historic Places website, sparking heritage concerns

Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A digital archive of Canada’s history is set to disappear this spring as Parks Canada moves …

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Daily Bread to cut off Scarborough food bank after reporting financial concerns to police

Toronto’s Daily Bread Food Bank is cutting ties with one of its largest member agencies after the charity uncovered discrepancies with invoices Feed Scarborough provided to support grant funding and reported those and other financial management concerns to police. Daily Bread’s board of directors decided not to renew Feed Scarborough’s …

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Canadian tourists voice concerns over Caribbean travel after U.S. strike on Venezuela

People call them the ABC islands: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao. All three are located in the southwestern Caribbean’s leeward Antilles, off the coast of Venezuela. All three are popular tourist destinations, known for their sandy beaches and rich cultures. But now — days after the U.S. hit Venezuela with what it described …

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Trump’s ‘unprecedented’ diplomat recall sparks concerns over politicization of foreign service

Since the founding of the modern American Foreign Service in 1924, there has never been anything like the recent move by the United States to recall 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts, says the president of the American Foreign Service Association. “This is entirely unprecedented,” said …

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Dirty clothes, lack of supervision: CFS agency raises concerns about emergency placements

Failing to report when a child is missing, sending kids to school in soiled clothes and refusing to learn how to treat a little girl’s medical condition are just a few of the concerns being raised by a Manitoba child welfare agency about emergency placement staff. CBC News learned about …

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COP30 pushes through uneasy climate deal that sidesteps fossil fuel concerns

Listen to this article Estimated 5 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence. Brazil’s COP30 presidency pushed through a compromise climate deal on Saturday that would boost finances for poor nations coping with global warming but omitted any mention of …

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Trump cuts tariffs on beef, coffee and other foods as inflation concerns mount

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday rolled back tariffs on dozens of food products, including such staples as beef, tomatoes and bananas, in the face of growing angst among American consumers about the high cost of groceries. The new exemptions — which take effect retroactively at midnight on Thursday — mark a …

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Donations to Sean Feucht groups via B.C.-based charity add to financial transparency concerns raised in Canada

A non-profit watchdog says Canadians have no way of knowing how much money is being donated to an evangelical group founded by an American who is making headlines across the country for event cancellations and questions about his views. Permits for Sean Feucht’s summertime worship concert events organized by his Burn …

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Pakistan resumes forced expulsions of 1.4 million Afghan refugees despite UN concerns

Authorities in Pakistan have resumed the forced deportations of Afghan refugees after the federal government declined to extend a key deadline for their stay, officials said Monday. The decision affects approximately 1.4 million Afghans holding Proof of Registration (PoR) cards, whose legal status expired at the end of June. Many had …

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U.S. Senate confirms former Trump lawyer Emil Bove as federal judge, despite whistleblower concerns

The U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer Emil Bove as a federal judge, installing a Trump loyalist who presided over a tumultuous period at the Justice Department on a crucial appeals court. The Republican-majority Senate voted 50-49 to confirm Bove, who has been serving as …

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