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Marooned by Air Canada flight attendant strike? Here are your options
You were planning to catch a flight and the dreaded text pops up on your phone: your flight has been cancelled. Now what? More than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants are off the job after a strike d...
Aug 15, 2025

CP NewsAlert: Air Canada flight attendants on strike as no deal reached
The union representing more than 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants says its members have walked off the job after it was unable to reach an eleventh hour deal with the airline. Air Canada says all f...
Aug 15, 2025

Floods in Pakistan wash away homes and leave at least 220 dead
BUNER, Pakistan (AP) - Rescuers in northwest Pakistan pulled 63 more bodies overnight from homes flattened by landslides and flash floods, raising the death toll from rain-related incidents to at leas...
Aug 15, 2025

Judge denies Trump administration request to end a policy protecting immigrant children in custody
McALLEN, Texas (AP) - A federal judge ruled Friday to deny the Trump administration's request to end a policy in place for nearly three decades that is meant to protect immigrant children in federal c...
Aug 15, 2025

New Air Force policy denies transgender troops hearings before they're discharged
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Air Force says in a new memo that transgender airmen ousted under a recent Trump administration directive will no longer have the chance to argue before a board of their peers fo...
Aug 15, 2025

First in Canada unexplained wealth order issued in B.C. against alleged pot growers
VICTORIA - British Columbia's Public Safety Minister Nina Krieger says she's "pleased" that the B.C. Supreme Court has issued Canada's first unexplained wealth order against two accused illicit pot gr...
Aug 15, 2025

Update 21: Alberta wildfire update
Cooler weather and rain have lowered wildfire activity in Alberta, allowing the province to send airtankers to help fight fires in New Brunswick.Current situation (as of 3 p.m., Aug. 15)There are 52 w...
Aug 15, 2025

Trump and Putin end their meeting that started with a warm handshake belying bloodshed in Ukraine
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska (AP) - President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin met for about 2 1/2 half hours on Friday, a summit in Alaska that started with a handshake, a smile an...
Aug 15, 2025

B.C. legislator shocked by American senator's 'nonsense' pitch to join U.S.
VICTORIA - A British Columbia legislator says he went from "disappointed" to "enraged" after receiving a pitch from a Republican state senator for Canada's four western provinces to join the United St...
Aug 15, 2025

'The same country': Canada often seen as extension of U.S., Indo-Pacific experts say
OTTAWA - Ottawa's Indo-Pacific strategy has yet to give Canada adequate visibility or distinguish it from the U.S. in the region, experts have told researchers commissioned by the federal government. ...
Aug 15, 2025