The Guardian: Canada News2 hours agoResponse to Russia’s war in Ukraine dominates G7 summitverified_publisherThe Guardian - Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editorWestern leaders ended the three-day G7 summit in Germany promising to increase the economic and political costs to Vladimir Putin and his regime of Russia’s war in Ukraine. The German chancellor and chair of the G7, Olaf Scholz, made the vow at a closing press conference in which he said the group …
The Guardian: Canada News1 day agoGold miner in Canada finds mummified 35,000-year-old woolly mammothverified_publisherThe Guardian - Ashifa KassamIt was a young miner, digging through the northern Canadian permafrost in the seemingly aptly named Eureka Creek, who sounded the alarm when his front-end loader struck something unexpected in the Klondike gold fields. What he had stumbled upon would later be described by the territory’s …
The Guardian: Canada News2 days ago‘Very, very modest’: Johnson vs Trudeau on whose private jet is smallerverified_publisherThe Guardian - Peter Walker Political correspondentIf you are a billionaire, it is standard to insist your private jet is the larger. For prime ministers, however, it is seemingly more politically expedient to argue the opposite. Such was the narrative as Boris Johnson met the Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, for a bilateral meeting on the …
The Guardian: Canada News2 days agoCelebrating Canada’s 100th birthday, 1967verified_publisherThe Guardian - Chris HallThe Observer Magazine of 25 June 1967 celebrated Canada’s official 100th birthday, though its claim that it had ‘suddenly got a new international glamour’ – referring to the 1967 World Fair and the Queen’s impending visit – was a stretch (‘Suddenly, after 99 lost years’). Canada had been born of the …
The Guardian: Canada News4 days agoI worry what kind of person ice hockey will turn my son intoverified_publisherThe Guardian - Colin HorganEarlier this spring, a woman filed a statement of claim detailing an alleged sexual assault that took place in June 2018 at an event hosted by Hockey Canada, the governing body for the country’s national sport. She said in the claim that she had been forced for hours to perform sexual acts against …
The Guardian: Canada NewsMontreal to host delayed Cop15 summit to halt ‘alarming’ global biodiversity lossverified_publisherThe Guardian - Patrick GreenfieldThe date for a key UN nature summit has finally been confirmed after more than two years of delays and amid fears momentum to halt biodiversity loss across the globe has been lost. Ahead of the latest round of negotiations in Nairobi this week, the UN convention on biological diversity confirmed …