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Canadian military involvement in Afghanistan formally ends

The Canadian army has hauled down the flag in Afghanistan. An understated ceremony, held under sunny skies and heavy guard, at NATO headquarters in Kabul brought to an end just over a dozen years of...

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Harper welcomes troops home from Afghanistan, declares May 9 a day of honour

The last Canadian soldiers to leave Afghanistan arrived home on Tuesday to tears, hugs from family and friends and a pledge from Stephen Harper that May 9 will be set aside to honour their...

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Stolen war medals returned to family by police

A sister and brother were understandably emotional on Friday morning when police reunited them with their father’s First World War medals that had been stolen 25 years ago. York Regional Police...

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Cannon fire kicks off Parliament Hill ceremony to honour Afghanistan veterans

Canada offered its thanks Friday to the 40,000 veterans of the 12-year war in Afghanistan, and the troops said thank you in return. There was a 21-gun salute and a pipe band and a parade, but the...

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A chronology of Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan

A chronology of key dates spanning Canada’s military mission in Afghanistan: 2001 Oct. 7: Prime Minister Jean Chretien announces Canada’s participation in an international anti-terrorism mission in...

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Harper marks 100th anniversary of WWI, critical conflict in Canadian history

OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper is marking the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War today. Harper will visit the National War Memorial on Parliament Hill at 11:11 a.m., and...

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Historians still divided on cause and who was responsible for First World War

It’s been 100 years since Europe’s major powers, and their colonies and dominions, went to war, but the passage of time has done little to settle the debate about who or what was responsible for the...

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5 things to do this weekend: Pumpkin festival, ‘Best of Toronto’ food tour &...

Sept. 26-28, 2014 Pumpkinland and Harvest Festival: “Tonight the Great Pumpkin will rise out of the pumpkin patch,” says Linus in It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. Celebrate the arrival of autumn...

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Hearing seeking easing of bail conditions for Omar Khadr rescheduled

A hearing to determine whether bail conditions for former Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr should be eased allowing him unsupervised visits with his controversial sister did not go ahead as planned...

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North and South Korea agree to push for talks to end war

North and South Korea say they will jointly push for talks with the United States and also potentially China to officially end the 1950-53 Korean War, which stopped in an armistice and left the Koreas...

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Ottawa looking into reports Canadian man killed fighting in Syria

Reports of the death of a Canadian-born Muslim convert who was fighting with al-Qaida in Syria prompted the country’s spy service to warn Wednesday that more homegrown radicals are preparing to wage...

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Ex-soldiers protest impending office veterans affairs office closures

A group of ex-soldiers, some from the Second World War, are trying to step up pressure on the Harper government to halt the closure of Veterans Affairs regional offices. Offices in Kelowna, B.C.,...

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Negotiators reach tentative deal in Ukraine

As anti-government protesters kept up their presence in Independence Square, there’s word that an all-night negotiating session between European mediators, Ukraine’s president and the opposition will...

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Canada maintains threat of sanctions on Russia if it interferes in Ukraine

The Harper government left the threat of sanctions against Russia on the table if it interferes in Ukraine, even as federal politicians in Ottawa reacted Monday to the convulsive events there with...

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Controversy over alleged Afghan prison torture slips quietly into history books

It burned white hot as a human-rights issue at the height of the Afghan war, sparking a political crisis that in 2009 nearly toppled Stephen Harper’s minority government. Five years on, the controversy...

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