OTTAWA — From a massive ad blitz featuring Canadian broadcast icon Peter Mansbridge to a cabinet minister calling on shipbuilders to cough up a car plant, the brief race to replace Canada’s aging submarine fleet turned heads in more ways than one.

The unusually short competition to build the navy’s next submarine fleet seemed to focus on everything but the boats themselves — even though the two vessels in the running are, in some ways, very different.

At no point during the two-year-long procurement competition did the

OTTAWA — Events are being held across the country to mark the 30th National Indigenous Peoples’ Day on Sunday — a day meant to honour the culture, histories and contributions of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people.

The day coincides with the summer solstice — the longest day of the year — and holds deep cultural significance for many Indigenous groups. It’s the culmination of Indigenous Peoples Month, which is observed every June.

National Indigenous Peoples’ Day, formerly National Aboriginal Day, was proclaimed in

MONTREAL — A small town west of Montreal has decided to officially recognize trees as living beings with rights of their own, in what an environmental organization describes as a first in Quebec and Canada.

A resolution adopted by Terrasse-Vaudreuil city council on June 9 declares that trees are worthy of protection, “including the right to life, to natural growth, to integrity and to regeneration.”

Mayor Michel Bourdeau says Quebec filmmaker André Desrochers inspired the community to take action.

He said Desrochers’ film, called “Des

LONDON (AP) — U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is facing a career-defining decision: step down or fight a possible challenge from Labour Party rival Andy Burnham .

Starmer has publicly vowed to stay in office, but pressure is building as more and more Labour Party colleagues conclude that his time is up. Expectation is growing that he will announce a timetable for his resignation as soon as Monday. That’s the day Burnham will be sworn in as a lawmaker in the House of Commons after winning a

Some fans who turned up at FIFA Fan Fest in downtown Toronto on Saturday were left frustrated and confused upon learning that the match between the Netherlands and Sweden would not be shown on the giant screens located throughout the venue.

The match was the first of the day, being played in Houston, Texas, at noon ET, but according to the Toronto FIFA Fan Fest website , it was not scheduled to be shown.

“We come in, and then we find out they’re only showing certain games at FIFA fan

With a hairbrush in one hand and a craft beer in the other, Curtis Einarson takes a seat behind a mannequin head with long, vibrant pink and blue hair.

The father of three young girls is one of a dozen dads sitting in the corner of Sookram’s Brewing Co., in Winnipeg on a recent Wednesday evening. The goal is for them to upgrade their limited hairstyling skills.

“Average at best. I can do a ponytail, I think OK. Maybe ask (my daughters),” Einarson

In Jamaica, where religion shapes moral order and where violence against LGBTQ+ people is pervasive, living openly as a transgender person can pose a deadly risk.

For Terry-Kay Walker, 38, that life-or-death moment came to a head one night when she was coming home from a fashion show in New Kingston.

“Me and my best friend were walking down the road, and a man stopped us,” she told CityNews.

Before Walker could make sense of the situation, she and her

Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) say a sixth person has been pronounced dead in hospital after a serious two-vehicle crash that happened in Mapleton, Ont. last week.

In a press release shared Friday, OPP announced the death of a 42-year-old man from Brampton who was the driver and lone occupant of an SUV that collided with a passenger van on June 12.

A total of 10 people were in the van at the time of the crash, including 5 children who were pronounced dead