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Descrease article font size Increase article font size Canada’s business productivity improved in the third quarter as hourly wages grew, according to the latest data, which also showed a drop in hours worked amid the trade war. Statistics Canada reported Wednesday that labour productivity increased 0.9 per cent from July through September 2025 compared to…

By Catherine Morrison The Canadian Press Posted December 3, 2025 11:56 am 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The government is pledging another $235 million in funding for Ukraine, with National Defence Minister David McGuinty and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand announcing Canada’s latest commitments. McGuinty says Canada will work…

The search for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 will resume on December 30, Malaysia’s transport ministry said on Wednesday, more than a decade after the Beijing-bound flight disappeared in one of the world’s greatest aviation mysteries. Flight MH370, a Boeing 777, was carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew when it vanished en-route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in 2014. Multiple search operations for the plane have been conducted…

As the purported video of Indian-origin immigration attorney Sheela Murthy urging people to kick President Donald Trump’s a** went viral, former adviser of Joe Biden, Ajay Jain Bhutoria, condemned Murthy and said hateful rhetoric should not have any place, as violence is never the answer. “As a proud Democrat, I fiercely disagree with Trump’s policies…

Indian-origin comedian Zarna Garg claimed the Indian-American community sees President Donald Trump positively as they don’t see Trump’s felony charges as disqualifying, as “all our politicians are crooked back home’. “First of all, our politicians are crooked back home, so that just seems to be a job requirement. So I mean, they’re like, of course,…

Canada’s public servants are being “defamed by a range of actors,” the minister in charge of border security said Tuesday after Global News reported his department had failed to assist an officer falsely branded a terrorist by India. Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree told reporters he was unfamiliar with the case but that government employees…

Qatar National Day, from 10 to 20 December, features Darb Al Saai heritage camps, exhibits, and parades/Image: QNA Qatar is preparing to celebrate this year’s National Day with a vibrant programme at Darb Al Saai in Umm Salal, where history, culture, and community spirit will come together in one expansive setting. The celebrations aim to…

An American climber has become the first woman to free-climb El Capitan’s longest route, a journey that took more than three weeks and has been completed by only a handful of climbers. It took Sasha DiGiulian, 33, a world-renowned climber from Colorado, 23 days to ascend the roughly 3,000-foot wall in California’s Yosemite National Park,…

Culture Minister Marc Miller expressed support Tuesday for removing a religious exemption on hate speech from the Criminal Code. Miller told reporters he doesn’t “think people should be using the Bible, the Qur’an or the Torah to escape from committing a hate crime or claim that … what would otherwise be a hate crime is…

A search for a British student who went missing while solo hiking in a Romanian mountain range has reached its 10th day. University of Bristol student George Smyth, 18, was hiking in the Bucegi Mountains when he called mountain rescue services in distress on Nov. 23, People reported. Smyth told search and rescue staff over…