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OTTAWA — More than 70 people gathered in front of the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill Sunday afternoon to call on Canadians to join them in protecting girls' education in Afghanistan and resisting legitimacy for the Taliban regime currently in power i

MONTREAL — There was a festive mood across downtown Montreal on Sunday as the city's Pride parade drew a record number of participants one year after the 2022 event was abruptly cancelled.

MONTREAL — A member of the first same-sex couple to be legally joined in a civil union in North America has died. Theo Wouters said his husband Roger Thibault, 77, died in his arms Friday. The two men had shared their lives for 50 years.

MONTREAL — The abrupt closure of Quebec newspaper publisher Métro Média will end news coverage of local government in parts of the province’s two largest cities, media observers say.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been hitting the summer barbecue circuit with ramped-up rhetoric around debunked claims that the World Economic Forum is attempting to impose its agenda on sovereign governments.

MONTREAL — A warehouse basement in an industrial area of Montreal, near the intersection of two highways, feels about as far from a fish habitat as it gets.

Montreal-based media and telecom conglomerate Québecor has announced it will stop paying rent for the office its political journalists use in one of Quebec's legislature buildings in the provincial capital.

OTTAWA — A pile of puzzle pieces spills onto a table.

Montreal's Pride parade will proceed on schedule this weekend, the organizer of the city's LGBTQ+ Pride festival said Saturday as he reassured prospective attendees the event would not fall prey to the sort of abrupt cancellation that unexpectedly de

TANTALLON, N.S. — It doesn't make sense to Robie Holland that — as 250 millimetres of rain poured down in rural Nova Scotia — there was nothing to stop his father from travelling down a rapidly flooding road.