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Here's how Canada hit its NATO defence spending target
OTTAWA - Canada spent $63.4 billion on national defence in 2025, meeting its NATO commitment to spend two per cent of GDP on defence for the first time, the alliance's annual report said Thursday. Spe...
The Canadian Press Mar 26, 2026

Bodies of pilots who died in collision at N.Y. airport are repatriated to Canada
MONTREAL - The bodies of the two Air Canada pilots who died in a collision on a runway at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday have returned to Canada. Pilots carried the casket of Jazz Aviation first officer ...
Canadian Press Mar 26, 2026

Floor-crossing MP Michael Ma casts doubt on reports of forced labour in China
OTTAWA - An MP who left the Conservatives to join the Liberals is casting doubt on reports of human rights abuses in China's Xinjiang region, asking an expert during a parliamentary committee today wh...
Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press Mar 26, 2026

Indigenous services minister questioned about fire that killed toddler
OTTAWA - First Nations chiefs from northern Ontario demanded answers Thursday from Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty after they linked the death of a three-year-old boy to a lack of federa...
Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press Mar 26, 2026

Lawsuits dropped after Gilbert Rozon, Julie Snyder, Pénélope McQuade reach deal
MONTREAL - Legal proceedings have been settled out of court between Just for Laughs founder Gilbert Rozon and Quebec media personalities Pnlope McQuade and Julie Snyder. In 2020, Rozon filed a $450,00...
Canadian Press Mar 26, 2026

Bodies of pilots who died in collision at N.Y. airport to be repatriated to Canada
MONTREAL - The bodies of the two Air Canada pilots who died in a collision on a runway at LaGuardia Airport on Sunday are being repatriated to Canada. The Air Line Pilots Association says the body of ...
Canadian Press Mar 26, 2026

Global Fund disease czar warns of limits to shifting foreign aid to private capital
OTTAWA - The head of the world's major funding mechanism for tackling infectious diseases says the Carney government's focus on leveraging private capital for aid will have only a limited impact on th...
Dylan Robertson, The Canadian Press Mar 26, 2026

Astronaut and UBC alumna answers questions from space
VANCOUVER - UBC alumna Jessica Meir gave students an unusual office tour on Thursday as she floated and flipped inside her zero-gravity workplace - the orbiting International Space Station. Meir is a ...
Marissa Birnie, The Canadian Press Mar 26, 2026

B.C. Conservative MLA Hon Chan charged with choking, assault and uttering threats
VICTORIA - British Columbia Conservative MLA Hon Chan has been charged with assault, assault by choking and uttering threats in a case of alleged intimate partner violence, prompting his removal from ...
Wolfgang Depner, The Canadian Press Mar 26, 2026

Carney takes victory lap after meeting NATO target: 'We're just getting started'
OTTAWA - For the first time since the end of the Cold War, Canada is spending roughly two per cent of its GDP on national defence - a key NATO alliance benchmark Ottawa previously failed to meet. NATO...
Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press Mar 26, 2026
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