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Trudeau confirms Canadian military personnel were at airbase hit by Iranian missiles
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Murray Brewster
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Repatriating Canadian air crash victims will be hampered by a lack of diplomatic ties with Iran, experts say
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Kathleen Harris
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Families, students among 138 people bound for Canada who died in the Iran plane crash
Canada |
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A Charest candidacy would not push MacKay out of the Conservative leadership race, says campaign source
A source close to what could be Peter MacKay's Conservative leadership campaign says the former Harper cabinet minister's decision on whether to run won't depend on what ex-Quebec premier Jean Charest does next.
Hannah Thibedeau
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Northern Iraq airbase targeted by Iran has been key in Canadian fight against ISIS
There was a time when the sounds of war were a daily occurrence at the sprawling airbase in Erbil, in northern Iraq. That was in the fall of 2014, when Canadian special forces troops arrived to help Kurdish fighters to repulse what seemed, at the time, to be the unstoppable onslaught of Islamic State extremists. The sounds of battle returned in the early hours Wednesday with an Iranian ballistic missile attack — one of two in Iraq.
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Murray Brewster
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Iran missile strikes: Canadian troops safe, no known U.S. casualties
Iran has fired more than a dozen missiles targeting at least two airbases in Iraq that host U.S. and coalition military personnel, the Pentagon confirmed Tuesday evening, and warned the United States and its allies against retaliating.
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How the Iran plane crash ranks among disasters claiming Canadian lives
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Updated
63 Canadians among dead after Ukrainian plane crash in Iran, airline says
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Analysis
Liberals dropped in on-reserve voting in 2019 federal election as NDP remained on top
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Éric Grenier
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National Inuit leader wants Indigenous rights commission to accompany promised UNDRIP bill
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Jorge Barrera
Indigenous |
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Canada pauses military operations in Iraq amid escalating U.S.-Iran tensions
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Murray Brewster
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Canadians calling CRA facing longer wait times, getting unreliable answers, CFIB audit finds
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Elizabeth Thompson
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'We've really started to ... get some concrete things done,' Freeland says after Kenney, Nenshi meeting
Canada -Calgary ||
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New RCMP union hopes to start salary bargaining by mid-March
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Catharine Tunney
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U.S. denies it plans to withdraw from Iraq as NATO stands firm on training mission
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Murray Brewster
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Work must stop on Trans Mountain, Site C, LNG pipeline until First Nations approval, UN committee says
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Laura Kane
Canada -British Columbia |
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Federal natural-disaster bills now average more than $430 million a year
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Mia Rabson
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Trudeau's Senate representative says ethics code needs revamp after the Don Meredith sex scandal
John Paul Tasker
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Meng extradition case to get 1st major court test, with Canada-China relations in play
Canada -British Columbia ||
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Power & Politics Jan. 6: Sajjan: Canada wants to continue its missions in Iraq
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Lametti says he won't split roles of attorney general and justice minister
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Olivia Stefanovich
Politics |
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RCMP's suicide prevention programs 'unwittingly deficient,' says internal report on Mountie's death
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Catharine Tunney
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Rising costs drain contingency fund for Canada's new fisheries science ships
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Paul Withers
Canada -Nova Scotia ||
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NATO suspends Canadian-led Iraq training mission after Soleimani killing
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Iraqi parliament passes resolution to end foreign troop presence
World |
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Hereditary First Nation chiefs issue eviction notice to Coastal GasLink contractors
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Joel Dryden
Canada -Calgary |
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Video
Sunday Scrum: The fallout from Soleimani's death
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