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Canadians are marking Canada Day under scorching temperatures across much of Central Canada. Officials in many provinces are urging people to stay hydrated and check on vulnerable neighbours as communities kick off celebrations for the country’s 159th birthday. Environment Canada heat warnings are in effect across much of southern Ontario …

It has been revealed that a group of Five Eyes officials delivered a dramatic and potentially unprecedented in-person warning to a Kremlin official about the consequences Moscow would face for attacking Ukraine, days before the start of its full-scale invasion. An account of the February 2022 meeting was first disclosed …

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What makes a good Steven Spielberg movie? Or more importantly, what makes a Spielberg movie so good? We may not all be film studies majors, cinephiles or insufferable critics, but it shouldn’t be an especially hard question.  And by extension, it shouldn’t be too confusing why his new Disclosure Day …

David Estévez Gamboa says he’s from the “old school,” having spent more than 40 years behind the wheel of a transport truck. But he apologizes when emotion overtakes him while discussing the killings of truck drivers during robberies and hijackings that plague Mexico’s highways. Between 30 and 50 transport trucks …

Front-line workers say Winnipeg is in the midst of a drug epidemic, driven by a surge in opioid overdoses that is killing users and overwhelming first responders who are dispatched to dozens of calls every day.  Dr. John Younes, Manitoba’s chief medical examiner, says he has “unequivocally” seen a surge …

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth clashed with Democratic lawmakers in Congress for a second day Thursday, rejecting senators’ accusations that the Iran war was launched without evidence of an imminent threat and waged with no coherent strategy. The three-hour hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee mostly traced the …

An Israeli drone strike killed one person in southern Lebanon on Friday, the first full day of a U.S.-brokered truce meant to end hostilities between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah, paramedics in the area and the head of a local hospital told Reuters. The reports of the strike came minutes after …

The triage nurse who initially assessed Heather Winterstein on the day she died of sepsis in 2021 says she never spoke to the 24-year-old patient and didn’t take her vital signs after paramedics had, explaining to a coroner’s inquest that staff were overwhelmingly busy. Andrea Demery testified Thursday that her …

The physician who treated Heather Winterstein the day before she died in hospital from a severe reaction to bacterial infection said he may have erred in diagnosing her condition as being due to “social issues.” But the doctor also stressed that was a “working diagnosis,” not necessarily a definite or …