Beyond Local

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Iran’s president on Friday delivered an unprecedented speech to an annual pro-Palestinian rally in the Gaza Strip — a rare display of Iran’s importance to the Hamas militant group that rules the territory.

REGINA — The rebranding of the tourism agency of Saskatchewan's capital city is being walked back as an independent review is set to examine what happened before the campaign rollout drew intense criticism.

REGINA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the RCMP Depot in Regina a "Canadian institution" Thursday, but fell short of committing to keeping the Mountie training facility open.

EDMONTON — Jean Claude Munyezamu remembers answering a phone call from a six-year-old boy asking if his non-profit group could provide milk for his newborn sibling.

TORONTO — “Canada's Drag Race” trounced most of its reality TV show rivals at the Canadian Screen Awards on Wednesday when it claimed six prizes, but lost the best reality/competition category to “The Amazing Race Canada."

Monarch butterfly exhibit at Musée Heritage Museum is a wake up call for the planet.

TORONTO — "A" is for "Ahead by a Century" and "B" is for "Bobcaygeon." Those are two of the lessons the Tragically Hip hope to impart to young readers as they prepare a picture book of the alphabet due out later this year.

TORONTO — Daytime TV mainstay Marilyn Denis says she's looking forward to spending more time with family as she prepares to step away from her weekday talk show after 13 seasons.

"We want to get the message out that if people are seeing feral rabbits to reach out to us as they will continue to cause thousands of dollars of damage, if they re-emerge to where they were before."

LONDON (AP) — Billionaire Elon Musk has told the BBC that running Twitter has been “quite painful” but that the social media company is now roughly breaking even after he acquired it late last year.