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Manitoba premier Wab Kinew announces funding for geothermal heating in new developments at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/John Woods

Kinew sits with First Nations leaders to honour children at school burial site

Brittany Hobson, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Updated: 4:12 PM CDT

BRANDON - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew stood on the former site of the Brandon residential school Wednesday as he talked about the importance of keeping the stories of students alive.

On a grassy hill dotted with orange hearts, he spoke about an eight-year-old boy who repeatedly ran away from the school, and of the many who never made it out, their deaths recorded on church records and in newspaper articles.

A nearby burial site for the students shows how those stories risk getting lost, said Kinew.

"When we say we have to preserve this memory so it could never be denied, we have living proof right here," he said.

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An Every Child Matters flag flies in the breeze during the second annual South Island Powwow at Royal Athletic Park in Victoria on Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chad Hipolito

‘We are better than that’: Canadians mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

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‘We are better than that’: Canadians mark National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

Alessia Passafiume and Sarah Ritchie, The Canadian Press 6 minute read Updated: 4:08 PM CDT

OTTAWA - Indigenous leaders struck a resolute tone Wednesday as the country marked the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation following reports of a white supremacist demonstration in a First Nations community in the B.C. interior.

"Survivors have fought for decades to defend their truths and confront the distortion of history, while our legal system still fails to recognize denialism for what it is — hatred disguised as free speech," Stephanie Scott, executive director of the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation, told a gathering on Parliament Hill.

"All of you hold the power to honour survivors and demand accountability, not only from our leaders but from one another. Truth and reconciliation is an ongoing responsibility, a human rights obligation and a sacred commitment."

Rosanne Casimir, chief of Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, said on Sunday a group of masked individuals dropped a banner from an overpass in Kamloops, B.C. The banner — bearing the words "Got bones?" — appeared to be questioning reports of human burials at the former sites of residential schools.

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Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew goes over historical articles and photos about the Brandon Residential School with City of Brandon employees at the Brandon Residential School Cemetery site in the former Turtle Crossing Campground along Grand Valley Road on Tuesday. The province announced Tuesday that they had purchased the former campground in partnership with the City of Brandon. The property has long been known to hold the graves of children who attended the nearby Brandon Residential School. The Brandon Residential School opened in 1895 and closed in 1972. The Brandon Residential School Missing Children Investigation, an indigenous-led initiative by SVDN, will conduct an extensive search of the property. The sign acknowledges the significance of the site. (Tim Smith/The Brandon Sun)

Sale of campground to preserve history, aid ongoing research

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Sale of campground to preserve history, aid ongoing research

Connor McDowell, Local Journalism Initiative 5 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 7:03 PM CDT

The recent purchase of a piece of land west of Brandon through a partnership between the City of Brandon and the province will help preserve residential school history and allow further cemetery research to take place at the site.

Formerly known as the Turtle Crossing Campground, the land was purchased as a contribution to the aims of Truth and Reconciliation, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew told the Sun. The property will serve to educate future generations about residential schools, the premier said.

“We live in an era where people are trying to deny what happened in residential schools,” Kinew said during a Tuesday afternoon visit to the former campground site. “It’s an important part of our national history, and keeping that truth alive.”

Kinew said the property has “huge national significance” for education about residential school history because it is one of the “most documented” in the country. He carried photographs, and some 20th century newspaper clippings from The Brandon Sun around the site and referred to them throughout the afternoon.

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Updated: Yesterday at 7:03 PM CDT

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Prime Minister Mark Carney listens during an announcement about funding for oceans protection, in North Vancouver, B.C., on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Carney reflects on ‘dark chapter’ at Truth and Reconciliation ceremony in Edmonton

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Carney reflects on ‘dark chapter’ at Truth and Reconciliation ceremony in Edmonton

Daniela Germano, The Canadian Press 3 minute read Updated: 4:13 PM CDT

EDMONTON - Prime Minister Mark Carney came home to Alberta’s capital Wednesday to meet with First Nations leaders and families and honour the children who suffered and endured in Canada’s residential schools.

"Today is about all the truth," Carney said in a speech Wednesday morning at Fort Edmonton Park in the city’s river valley near downtown.

"And it's for the children. Those children. Those survivors. Those who didn’t survive."

Wednesday was the sixth annual National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The day is a sombre remembrance of 150,000 Indigenous children who suffered malnutrition and abuse over decades in Canada’s residential school system.

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Canada's Minister of International Trade Maninder Sidhu speaks at a press conference in Toronto, on Friday, July 24, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sammy Kogan

Trade Minister Sidhu set to speak with U.S. trade rep at G20 meeting in Wisconsin

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Trade Minister Sidhu set to speak with U.S. trade rep at G20 meeting in Wisconsin

David Baxter, The Canadian Press 2 minute read Updated: 12:19 PM CDT

OTTAWA - International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu is expected to speak with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer during the G20 trade ministers' meeting in Wisconsin this week.

Sidhu's spokesperson said a specific time and format for that conversation have not been set.

Sidhu has bilateral meetings scheduled for Wednesday with the trade ministers for France, Australia and Turkey, and is meeting with India's representative on Thursday.

The two-day meeting of trade ministers from the world's biggest economies is being held in Milwaukee amid a global trade disruption caused in large part by U.S. President Donald Trump's trade agenda.

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President Donald Trump gestures as he speaks at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium on Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Carney says he has no plans to apply further trade pressure as U.S. midterms approach

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Carney says he has no plans to apply further trade pressure as U.S. midterms approach

Kelly Geraldine Malone, The Canadian Press 5 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 6:19 PM CDT

WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday he has no plans to apply new trade pressure on the U.S. as Americans prepare for crucial midterm elections that could end Republican control of Congress.

Speaking with reporters at a news conference in Vancouver on Tuesday, Carney said Canada has no intention of escalating the trade war, although he noted he never rules anything out.

"Our timing isn't dictated by any specific aspect of the U.S. calendar," Carney said.

"The reality is the cost of living is very high in the United States and there's things Canada can do to help lower that cost of living."

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Updated: Yesterday at 6:19 PM CDT

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Bank notes issued by the Bank of Canada are seen in a display case at the Bank of Canada Museum in Ottawa, on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

Canada can do more to prosecute sophisticated money laundering cases: watchdog report

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Canada can do more to prosecute sophisticated money laundering cases: watchdog report

Jim Bronskill, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 8:40 AM CDT

OTTAWA - Canada is making strides in the fight against criminal efforts to disguise illicit cash but can do more to investigate and prosecute complex money laundering cases, says a new international watchdog report.

The report, an independent, peer review assessment by the Financial Action Task Force and the Asia-Pacific Group on Money Laundering, says Canada has developed "a mature and nuanced understanding" of money laundering and terrorist financing threats and vulnerabilities.

It also applauds Canada's strong co-ordination across government and ability to use financial intelligence to support criminal investigations and international efforts.

But the report calls on Canada to improve its supervision of non-financial sectors, including dealers in precious metals and stones and real estate.

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Updated: Yesterday at 8:40 AM CDT

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Iraqi security officers flash victory signs as they ride on vehicles decorated with national flags and ribbons during a convoy celebrating the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Trump hails the US military’s exit from Iraq after its 12-year mission

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Trump hails the US military’s exit from Iraq after its 12-year mission

Qassim Abdul-zahra And Michelle L. Price, The Associated Press 7 minute read Updated: 2:38 PM CDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. military announced Wednesday that it completed the withdrawal of all American troops from Iraq, ending a 12-year mission to fight the Islamic State group and prompting President Donald Trump to hail the conclusion of "a very expensive excursion into Hell.”

The last U.S. troops left an air base in northern Iraq under a deal between Baghdad and Washington.

Trump, in a social media post, described the withdrawal by a Sept. 30 deadline as “orderly." Appearing soon after at a White House event celebrating Hispanics, he spoke at length about the withdrawal and said, “It’s been a long time with very bad decision making that got us involved in this quagmire in the first place. It was a quagmire. For many, many years it lasted. But soon that part of history will be over.”

He said the shift was a victory for the U.S., Iraq and a sign of victory over the Islamic State group.

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Residential school survivor Chief Wilton Littlechild takes part in the site selection ceremony for the Residential Schools National Monument on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, June 20, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick

Mark Carney is banking on economic reconciliation but critics say he’s not on track

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Mark Carney is banking on economic reconciliation but critics say he’s not on track

Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press 7 minute read Updated: 12:20 PM CDT

OTTAWA - When Wilton Littlechild was co-chairing the landmark Truth and Reconciliation Commission more than a decade ago, he thought a lot about the idea of economic reconciliation and how it could help transform Indigenous communities.

"You may have the best ideas in the world but without a fundamental grounding and foundation to self-determination, you're missing a very important part," Littlechild said in an interview with The Canadian Press.

Littlechild said economic reconciliation is still the key to achieving reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians — but not in the way Prime Minister Mark Carney sees it.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, launched out of a legal settlement between the federal government and survivors of residential schools, was tasked with researching the history and legacy of those institutions. It was chaired by Littlechild, Murray Sinclair and Marie Wilson.

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Updated: 12:20 PM CDT

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FILE- Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, front left, speaks with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, eastern France, Sept 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Pascal Bastien, File)

Mark Carney’s stand against Trump leads to Nobel Peace Prize and Time Person of the Year buzz

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Mark Carney’s stand against Trump leads to Nobel Peace Prize and Time Person of the Year buzz

Rob Gillies, The Associated Press 4 minute read Updated: 12:20 PM CDT

TORONTO (AP) — Mark Carney built a global profile in 2026 by standing up to U.S. President Donald Trump. If some prediction-market traders and prominent admirers are right, the Canadian prime minister could end the year with the Nobel Peace Prize and Time magazine’s Person of the Year.

Carney briefly became the favorite Monday for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize on Kalshi, a U.S.-based prediction market, when traders on the exchange put his chances at 14%. His odds later fell, illustrating the highly speculative nature of the wagering.

There is no public evidence Carney is on the Nobel Committee’s secret shortlist for the prize that will be announced Oct. 9 in Oslo, Norway.

But the buzz about the Canadian leader possibly winning the esteemed peace prize reflects the message that has raised his profile: Middle powers should band together to defend sovereignty as great powers increasingly use economic and military leverage.

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Obby Khan speaks to reporters after being sworn-in as a member of the Manitoba legislature in Winnipeg, Monday, April 4, 2022. Khan won a byelection in the Fort Whyte constituency in Winnipeg on March 22. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Steve Lambert

Konrad Narth named Manitoba PC leader as ex-leader makes conspiracy accusations

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Konrad Narth named Manitoba PC leader as ex-leader makes conspiracy accusations

Ian Bickis, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 5:36 PM CDT

WINNIPEG - Konrad Narth took the reins as interim leader of the Manitoba Progressive Conservatives on Tuesday, while the former party leader accused him of hosting caucus conspirators.

Narth was selected in a closed-door caucus session in the morning, and soon after the house resumed work for the new legislature sitting.

He stood in the chamber and received applause from fellow Tory members as he made his first comments in the top job.

“PCs are optimistic," Narth said. “We're united, and we're moving forward for all Manitobans.”

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Updated: Yesterday at 5:36 PM CDT

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