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'Worst fears' confirmed as 2 people trapped by wildfire die in southeastern Manitoba: RCMP; Supt\. Chris Hastie, commander of Manitoba RCMP's East District, speaks at a news conference in Lac du Bonnet on Wednesday\. Hastie said earlier that morning, police recovered the bodies of a man and a woman who were trapped as a wildfire burned near the southeastern Manitoba community\.

'Worst fears' confirmed as 2 people trapped by wildfire die in southeastern Manitoba: RCMP

May 14 , 2025 at 03:54:50 p.m. EDT • :

The bodies of a man and a woman who got trapped as a wildfire burned near the community of Lac du Bonnet in southeastern Manitoba were recovered by police Wednesday morning, RCMP say.

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What, exactly, are Alberta separatists mad about?; Jeff Rath, a lawyer for the separatist Alberta Prosperity Project, sits beside the group's proposed question for a potential referendum on Alberta separation, at a Monday news conference\. Threats of separation have reached new heights since the April election of Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney\.

What, exactly, are Alberta separatists mad about?

May 14 , 2025 at 04:00:00 a.m. EDT • :

Threats of Alberta separation go back decades, and have reached new heights since the April election of Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney. Why do some Albertans feel they're being treated so unfairly?

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CBC/Radio-Canada to scrap much-maligned 'performance pay' for managers; People walk by the CBC building in Toronto on April 4, 2012\. The public broadcaster is ending the controversial policy of 'performance pay' for its managers and executives\.

CBC/Radio-Canada to scrap much-maligned 'performance pay' for managers

May 14 , 2025 at 05:45:35 p.m. EDT • :

After a wave of criticism for handing out so-called "performance pay" to managers when it was considering layoffs, CBC/Radio-Canada's board of directors is ending the practice altogether after a third-party review, the corporation said Wednesday.

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WHO cuts management team in half, scales back operations; WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says the body's new leadership team of seven, including him, is down from 14 people\.

WHO cuts management team in half, scales back operations

May 14 , 2025 at 06:02:23 p.m. EDT • :

The World Health Organization has reduced its management team by half and will have to scale back operations, its director-general said on Wednesday, four months after the United States announced it was leaving the agency and cutting funding.

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New foreign minister says Israel using lack of food as 'political tool' in Gaza; Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand takes part in the cabinet swearing-in ceremony at Rideau Hall on Tuesday, when she took over the position from Mélanie Joly\.

New foreign minister says Israel using lack of food as 'political tool' in Gaza

May 14 , 2025 at 04:46:16 p.m. EDT • :

Newly named Foreign Minister Anita Anand accused Israel on Wednesday of using a lack of food as a political tool in its Gaza operation and urged further work on a ceasefire with Hamas, the militant group that controls the Palestinian enclave.

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WATCH | Hawaii just made it more expensive to be a tourist — on purpose; A composite image of a woman with her hand on her chin in front of some cliffs overlooking blue waters\.  

May 13 , 2025 at 09:02:11 p.m. EDT • :

WATCH | Hawaii just made it more expensive to be a tourist — on purpose

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Man who killed UBC Okanagan security guard gets 15 years, as judge highlights drug-induced psychosis; Harmandeep Kaur, 24, is remembered by loved ones as a hard working and family-oriented woman who came from India with dreams of studying and establishing a life in British Columbia, and had just received her permanent residency status in January\.  

May 14 , 2025 at 04:40:01 p.m. EDT • :

Man who killed UBC Okanagan security guard gets 15 years, as judge highlights drug-induced psychosis

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Carney's cabinet meets for the first time as it stares down a pile of problems; Prime Minister Mark Carney arrives at West Block on Parliament Hill in Ottawa for a meeting of the federal cabinet on Wednesday, one day after the cabinet was sworn in\.  

May 14 , 2025 at 12:12:57 p.m. EDT • :

Carney's cabinet meets for the first time as it stares down a pile of problems

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In Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, Tom Cruise shows off his Jesus complex; Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt in Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning\. The eighth instalment in the spy-thriller franchise is slightly ham-fisted but solid\.  

May 14 , 2025 at 04:00:00 p.m. EDT • :

In Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning, Tom Cruise shows off his Jesus complex

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Cassie feared release of 'freak-off' videos, she testifies at Sean (Diddy) Combs trial; In this courtroom sketch, Sean \(Diddy\) Combs listens as his former girlfriend Casandra Ventura, the R&B singer known as Cassie, testifies while a video from a hotel is played at his sex trafficking trial in New York City on May 14\.  

May 14 , 2025 at 10:22:12 a.m. EDT • :

Cassie feared release of 'freak-off' videos, she testifies at Sean (Diddy) Combs trial

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May 14 , 2025 at 05:10:40 p.m. EDT • :

Woman's testimony ends after 9 gruelling days of questions at world juniors sex assault trial

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May 14 , 2025 at 06:47:07 a.m. EDT • :

Israeli military airstrikes kill at least 70 in Gaza

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May 13 , 2025 at 05:22:36 p.m. EDT • :

This man will listen to you talk about anything, and he won't charge a dime

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May 14 , 2025 at 04:00:00 a.m. EDT • :

This alleged pyramid scheme targets Filipino migrant workers, promising a life in Canada

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May 14 , 2025 at 02:44:27 p.m. EDT • :

Union representing Air Canada's flight attendants files for conciliation as talks stall

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