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As German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is set to arrive in Canada on Sunday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is facing renewed calls from Ukraine to cancel a permit allowing turbines repaired in Montreal to be sent back to a Russian energy giant. Scholz, who took over from Angela Merkel in December …
Read More »Canadian parliamentarians planning fall visit to Taiwan
Members of Parliament’s standing committee on international trade are planning a trip to Taiwan as early as October, says the group’s chair Liberal MP Judy Sgro. A potential fall visit to Taiwan by Canadian MPs and senators would come on the heels of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the island …
Read More »Indigenous communities in Ontario cautiously optimistic about Pope’s visit
As Pope Francis arrives in Edmonton on what he calls “a penitential pilgrimage,” Indigenous communities in Ontario cautiously hope his visit is a much-needed step in healing and reconciliation. At the Grand River Champion of Champions Powwow, held at the Six Nations of the Grand River in Ontario, many people …
Read More »Apprehension and optimism: young Indigenous people share their thoughts ahead of Pope’s visit
WARNING: This story contains distressing details. As the Pope’s visit to Canada draws near, CBC Edmonton asked several Indigenous young people what the visit means to them and what impact they hope it has on their communities. Pope Francis, set to arrive in Edmonton on Sunday, is expected to deliver an apology …
Read More »Ottawa announces more than $30M for Indigenous communities, organizations to mark papal visit
The federal government announced on Wednesday more than $30 million in new funding to support Indigenous communities and organizations during the upcoming papal visit. Pope Francis will tour Canada from July 24 to 29. The goal of the visit is to advance reconciliation and healing between the Roman Catholic Church, First …
Read More »Enough seats for survivors at Pope’s mass in Quebec, says papal visit planning team
There will be enough seats for all First Nations survivors who want to attend Pope Francis’s big reconciliation mass in Quebec after all, the planning committee for the papal visit has confirmed. “We will be able to respond to the request of every single survivor of residential schools who would …
Read More »Emmanuel Macron hints at Russian war crimes as western European leaders visit Kyiv
French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that there are signs of war crimes in a Kyiv suburb following “massacres” by Russian forces. He spoke in the town of Irpin in the greater Kyiv area while on a visit with the German, Italian and Romanian leaders to show support for Ukraine. …
Read More »Manitoba residential school survivors hopeful about Pope’s visit, but want a say in apology
Residential school survivors met with Catholic bishops in Winnipeg Wednesday to discuss what they’d like to hear from Pope Francis when he visits Canada this summer. The Pope is expected to apologize for the Roman Catholic Church’s role in abuses suffered at the schools, but it’s the wording of that apology that was the focus of …
Read More »Police took 3½ hours to visit an apartment complex after shots were fired. Residents want to know why
Jordan Tobin bolted upright from his sleep when he heard a loud bang in the early hours of Thursday morning. Then he heard another one. And another. And about a half-dozen more after that. When the loud bangs abruptly gave way to the screeching tires of a fleeing vehicle, Tobin sprinted …
Read More »A royal visit at a time of reckoning: Will Prince Charles and Camilla connect with Canadians?
Kyle Empringham doesn’t follow the royals and wasn’t initially aware there was a royal visit to Canada coming up this week. Still, after he found out, the co-founder of The Starfish Canada, a group that supports young people in their environmental careers, saw potential for some “optimistic skepticism” about what …
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