Unpublished Newswire
In his hotel room in Tel Aviv, Canadian Artur Wilczynski has quickly adopted a routine intended to keep him alive: His smartphone flashes an alert that missiles are incoming, and he heads to a sub-basement bomb shelter to wait out the latest attack by Iran, listening for the exploding sky to go quiet again. Right now, there’s no way back to Canada for the retired public servant, who was visiting Israel from Ottawa as part of an international delegation invited by the country’s foreign ministry to meet with members of the LGBTQ+ community.
June 15, 2025 - 22:06 | Ian Bailey, Sophia Coppolino, Erin Anderssen | The Globe and Mail
June 15, 2025 - 22:03 | | CBC News - Canada
Canada’s largest private-sector union says former Canadian Auto Workers president Buzz Hargrove has died.In a statement Sunday, Unifor says Basil “Buzz” Hargrove was “a beloved and iconic figure in Canada’s labour movement” who “was a tireless advocate for working people and a deeply respected leader.”
June 15, 2025 - 21:24 | | The Globe and Mail
A B.C. wildfire that came within metres of homes and triggered a local state of emergency in Squamish is now being held.The BC Wildfire Service said late Saturday that the Dryden Creek wildfire, which ignited last Monday, is projected to remain within its current perimeter based on forest fuel, weather conditions and resource availability.
June 15, 2025 - 20:15 | Andrea Woo | The Globe and Mail
Prayers filled the air at the National Holocaust Monument in Ottawa Sunday at a vigil held one week after the solemn concrete memorial was defaced with the words 'feed me' — an apparent reference to threat of famine in Gaza.
June 15, 2025 - 19:51 | | CBC News - Ottawa
BANFF, Alta. — The heads of the world’s richest economies are converging on Alberta today for one of the most high-stakes G7 meetings in recent memory amid a U.S.-led global tariff war and the growing crisis in the Middle East.
On many of the G7’s key issues — namely the global trade war and Israel’s military operations in Gaza — Trump and the rest of the G7 leaders are largely on opposite sides.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s job as chair of the summit in Kananaskis, Alta., is to mediate discussions to make sure the tense alliance doesn’t blow up.
And that job has never...
June 15, 2025 - 18:56 | Christopher Nardi | National Post
