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Quebec Solidaire Leader Ruba Ghazal questions the government at the legislature in Quebec City, Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot

Quicksketch of Québec solidaire spokesperson Ruba Ghazal

The Canadian Press 2 minute read 3:00 AM CDT

MONTRÉAL - Ruba Ghazal is entering her first campaign as spokesperson for of Québec solidaire. She’s at the head of a brand-new slate, as veterans Manon Massé and Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois have been replaced by Ghazal and Sol Zanetti. The party has a male and female spokesperson instead of a leader, but has chosen Ghazal to become premier if the party forms government.

Age: 48

Hometown: Beirut, Lebanon

Early years: Ghazal was born to a Palestinian family in Lebanon. She immigrated to Quebec when she was 10 years old.

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The legislature building, known as the National Assembly, is seen in Quebec City, Wednesday, June 5, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jacques Boissinot

Here are five issues to watch in the Quebec provincial election campaign

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Here are five issues to watch in the Quebec provincial election campaign

Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press 4 minute read 3:00 AM CDT

MONTREAL - Quebecers are heading to the polls in early October, after eight straight years of Coalition Avenir Québec governance. Here are some of the issues that could dominate the campaign.

1. Sovereignty

The Coalition Avenir Québec's win in 2018 was seen as a new chapter for a province that was moving on from the federalist-sovereigntist binary that had dominated the province’s politics for decades. But this year, the Parti Québécois leads in the polls and its leader has promised a referendum by 2030 if his party forms government.

PQ Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon has since said no referendum will happen while Donald Trump remains in office. Polls have suggested Quebecers don't want a referendum, which is something St-Pierre Plamondon's opponents can be expected to seize on.

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FILE - Dolly Parton performs at Glastonbury music festival, June 29, 2014. (Photo by Jonathan Short/Invision/AP, File)

In Dolly Parton’s theology, God and acceptance shared the same stage

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In Dolly Parton’s theology, God and acceptance shared the same stage

Krysta Fauria, The Associated Press 6 minute read 1:03 AM CDT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — In her 1994 memoir, Dolly Parton recounts in vivid detail the place where she found God.

It was an abandoned church, in rural Tennessee where she grew up, that had become known as a haven for sex, drugs and violence. Rather than see the used condoms on the floor, the out-of-tune piano left behind or the explicit drawings on the walls as a hindrance to her religious encounter, Parton spoke fondly of the setting where she went to pray as a young girl.

“I would sing hymns to God for a while and look at dirty pictures for a while and pray for a while, and one day as I prayed in earnest, I broke through some sort of spirit wall and found God,” she wrote.

“Here in one place was God, music and sex.”

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James A. Gambrell, a former chef at Dollywood, touches the Dolly Parton statue in downtown Sevierville, Tenn., on Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Dylan Lovan)

Dolly Parton’s love of the Great Smoky Mountains helped transform her hometown

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Dolly Parton’s love of the Great Smoky Mountains helped transform her hometown

Kimberlee Kruesi And Dylan Lovan, The Associated Press 5 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 4:49 PM CDT

SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Dolly Parton didn’t just sing lovingly about her Tennessee mountain home. She spent her life elevating an often-overlooked region to showcase what long inspired her music and sparked a tourism boom that forever changed those living against the backdrop of the Great Smoky Mountains.

And it is because of that deep devotion that Parton's death has been profoundly personal to rural Sevier County. To the world, Parton was one of the world's best-known country music stars. To her neighbors, she was Tennessee's favorite daughter.

“It hit me hard. It hit me really hard,” said James Gambrell, a former chef at Dollywood, the signature theme park that Parton opened decades ago after seeing families like hers unable to afford to go to Disneyland.

“If it don’t affect you, then something’s wrong,” Gambrell said of Parton's death, adding that he became so close to her family that they adopted him as a kind of nephew.

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Damaged houses stand precariously near the swollen, debris-choked banks of the Trishuli River after flash floods in Nepal's Nuwakot district on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Officials say 24 Canadians missing after flash floods in Nepal and China

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Officials say 24 Canadians missing after flash floods in Nepal and China

Brittany Hobson, The Canadian Press 5 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 5:10 PM CDT

Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government is closely following the situation in Nepal and China after two dozen Canadians were reported missing in flash flooding in the region.

Officials in Nepal said Wednesday that 24 people from Canada were among those missing in the flash floods in a border area of Nepal and China.

Police in Nepal reported at least 157 dead and hundreds of tourists, workers and others are unaccounted for. China's state broadcaster CCTV reported at least three dead and 265 missing in the Tibet region's Gyirong County.

Carney said all Canadians in the region should sign up for Registration of Canadians Abroad, a free service that lets the federal government contact and assist citizens during an emergency in other countries.

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Dolly Parton performs during the first half of an NCAA college football game between Tennessee and Georgia Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023, in Knoxville, Tenn. (AP Photo/Wade Payne)

Shania Twain, Céline Dion and more Canadian artists grieve the loss of Dolly Parton

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Shania Twain, Céline Dion and more Canadian artists grieve the loss of Dolly Parton

Alex Nino Gheciu, The Canadian Press 3 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 3:16 PM CDT

The death of Dolly Parton has hit the Canadian music community hard, with artists remembering the country icon as a mentor, hero and source of comfort.

Parton died Tuesday at 80 after a battle with cancer, her publicist said.

One of the most personal tributes came from Shania Twain, who shared a clip on Instagram of the pair performing Parton’s “Coat of Many Colors” in 2003, saying it’s a moment she’ll “cherish forever.”

Twain called the Tennessee singer-songwriter her “songwriting teacher and hero of grace and humility,” adding “there is a hole in my heart but the joy of just the thought of her smile will continue to fill me with inspiration for as long as I live.”

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Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe adjusts his glasses as he speaks with reporters in Mumbai, India, Friday, Feb. 27, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Saskatchewan’s Premier Moe announces 50% retaliatory tax on U.S. booze amid trade war

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Saskatchewan’s Premier Moe announces 50% retaliatory tax on U.S. booze amid trade war

The Canadian Press 5 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 6:47 PM CDT

PRINCE ALBERT - As Canada's trade war with the United States escalates, Saskatchewan is hitting back with a reciprocal tax on American alcohol.

Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe announced Wednesday that starting Sept. 8, Saskatchewan is to impose a 50 per cent fee.

"It will be good for our Saskatchewan producers with domestic and local sales," he told reporters Wednesday in Prince Albert, Sask.

The move comes after trade talks recently broke down between Canada and the United States.

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Ozge Unal Harvey sees first grader Milo Harvey off to to Maisonneuve primary school as students are welcomed back to school in Montreal, on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christopher Katsarov
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Childhood vaccination rates remain stable in Quebec despite the COVID-19 pandemic

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Childhood vaccination rates remain stable in Quebec despite the COVID-19 pandemic

Katrine Desautels, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Yesterday at 1:34 PM CDT

MONTRÉAL - As students head back to school across Quebec, data from the province's public health institute indicate that vaccination rates have remained stable in recent years.

Experts say Quebec is in a good position and credit efforts that were made in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic.

The institute's vaccine survey finds that the coverage rate for vaccines due at the start of the school year were 78.3 per cent among seven-year-olds in 2023, compared with 78.4 per cent in 2021.

While vaccination rates declined among very young children during the pandemic, they did not drop further in 2023.

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Two Air Canada employees arrested in connection with drug trafficking

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Two Air Canada employees arrested in connection with drug trafficking

The Canadian Press 1 minute read Yesterday at 12:48 PM CDT

MONTRÉAL - RCMP says two Air Canada employees have been arrested in connection with alleged cocaine and cannabis trafficking out of Montréal-Trudeau Airport.

The force says the two suspects are alleged to have participated in a conspiracy to move luggage into the airport’s secure areas to facilitate importing cocaine and exporting cannabis.

RCMP conducted searches at two residences and a vehicle in the greater Montreal area, as well as at the employees' work area in Dorval.

The investigation began in May after 62.5 kg of cocaine was intercepted in backpacks on a flight from Punta Cana, in the Dominican Republic.

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Testimony concludes in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial. Jury to hear closing arguments Thursday

Leah Willingham, The Associated Press 4 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 2:21 PM CDT

Testimony concluded Wednesday in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, a mother accused of strangling her three young children in a case that has drawn attention to postpartum mental health.

Closing arguments are expected to begin Thursday, before the jury begins deliberating.

Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility, with her lawyers arguing she was experiencing postpartum psychosis when she killed 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson and 8-month-old Callan Clancy at the family’s home in coastal Duxbury, Massachusetts, in January 2023. The rare mental illness is linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth.

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Bicycles that were stolen in downtown Winnipeg in July 2026, from Val Duquenne and Thomas Clark, who were cycling across Canada, are pictured in this composite of undated photos. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Handout - Winnipeg Police Service (Mandatory Credit)

Winnipeg police find bike stolen during cross-Canada men’s mental health trek

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Winnipeg police find bike stolen during cross-Canada men’s mental health trek

Brittany Hobson, The Canadian Press 1 minute read Yesterday at 11:47 AM CDT

WINNIPEG - Police have made an arrest and recovered one of two bicycles stolen during a charity ride pit stop in Winnipeg.

The two bikes, worth about $15,000, were swiped last month when Val Duquenne and Thomas Clark were doing a media interview about their cross-country trek to raise awareness for men's mental health.

Police say the one bike was found on Aug. 7 and traced to a suspect.

A 42-year-old man was arrested Sunday, and charged with theft and trafficking stolen property.

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Bombito set for second surgery on left tibia after ‘struggling’ through World Cup

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Bombito set for second surgery on left tibia after ‘struggling’ through World Cup

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NICE - Moïse Bombito traced it back to a conversation he had with Canadian national team coach Jesse Marsch.

Bombito was needed, and the 26-year-old centre back wasn't willing to miss the FIFA World Cup being played on home soil, even if his body was telling him otherwise.

The Canadian defender is set to undergo surgery on his left tibia once again, his club team Nice announced Wednesday. The Ligue 1 team in France said the Montreal native was dealing with chronic pain that prompted a scan on his leg before determining surgery to be the next step.

"I’m talking with the national team coach, who explains to me that he needs me and that, in terms of my recovery, things are progressing, and that potentially I could take part in the World Cup, which is being played at home, where I’m from, in front of my friends, my family, the people close to me," Bombito said in a translated interview with Nice.

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Jockey John Velazquez, atop Luster, throws flower petals in celebration of his win at the 167th running of the King's Plate horse race in Toronto, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

King’s Plate champion Luster to take extended break, won’t run in Prince of Wales

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King’s Plate champion Luster to take extended break, won’t run in Prince of Wales

Dan Ralph, The Canadian Press 4 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 12:54 PM CDT

TORONTO - Two emphatic wins have earned Luster a little downtime.

Trainer Josie Carroll said the heralded filly has come out of her dominant King's Plate victory in fine form. However, with five races under her belt already this season (four wins, third-place finish), Carroll added Luster has earned an extended break and won't chase the OLG Canadian Triple Crown.

Luster won't run in either the $500,000 Prince of Wales Stakes on Sept. 7 at Fort Erie Racetrack or the $500,000 Breeders' Stakes at Woodbine on Sept. 27, the final two legs of the Triple Crown.

"We feel that as easy as she has made everything look, she has had five starts this year," Carroll said Wednesday. "She's just a little filly; it would probably be a little much to jam her right back into the Prince of Wales and Breeders.

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People take photographs and videos of the swollen, debris-choked banks of the Trishuli River after a flash floods in Nepal's Nuwakot district on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2026. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Floods caused by a glacial collapse kill at least 160 people on Nepal-China border, hundreds missing

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Floods caused by a glacial collapse kill at least 160 people on Nepal-China border, hundreds missing

Niranjan Shrestha And Sibi Arasu, The Associated Press 6 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 9:21 PM CDT

UDIN DHUNGA, Nepal (AP) — Massive flash floods in a border area of Nepal and China killed at least 160 people and left hundreds of tourists, workers and others missing Wednesday after suddenly sweeping through communities and halting travel in some areas. Experts said a glacial collapse caused the disaster in the warming Himalayan region.

Police in Nepal reported at least 157 dead. China’s state broadcaster CCTV reported at least three dead and 265 missing in the Tibet region’s Gyirong County near the national border. Drone footage showed roads destroyed and buildings buried by thundering water the color of wet cement. State news agency Xinhua reported significant casualties.

The region's steep valleys are economic lifelines and travel corridors but are precarious when disaster strikes. Images showed what appeared to be the second floors of buildings in Nepal's hard-hit Nuwakot district slathered in mud after the torrent rushed by. Debris hung from tree branches and wires, vehicles were buried and some stunned survivors were caked in mud.

There was little time for anyone to flee.

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FILE - This photo shows Hildale, Utah, sitting at the base of Red Rock Cliff mountains, with its sister city, Colorado City, Ariz., in the foreground, Dec. 16, 2014. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Polygamous sect leader gets 24-year sentence in Arizona for hauling girls in unventilated trailer

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Polygamous sect leader gets 24-year sentence in Arizona for hauling girls in unventilated trailer

Jacques Billaud, The Associated Press 3 minute read Updated: Yesterday at 8:42 AM CDT

PHOENIX (AP) — A polygamous sect leader already serving a 50-year federal sentence for orchestrating sex involving children was given another 24 years in prison Tuesday on separate state convictions for hauling girls through a community in northern Arizona in an unventilated trailer.

Samuel Bateman, 50, was convicted of three child abuse counts stemming from an August 2022 traffic stop in Flagstaff that led to the discovery of three girls, ages 11 to 14, in the trailer. It had a makeshift toilet, sofa and camping chairs and lacked air conditioning and seat belts. Someone tipped off authorities about the trailer after seeing small fingers reaching through gaps in the doors. Bateman, whose small group was an offshoot of the polygamous sect once led by Warren Jeffs, is currently serving 50 years in federal prison for coercing girls as young as 9 to submit to sex acts with him and other adults and for scheming to kidnap girls from protective custody.

Citing an “insane danger” to the girls in the trailer, among other factors, Judge Joshua Steinlage ordered Bateman to serve the state sentence after completing the 50-year federal sentence. Bateman, a self-proclaimed prophet, previously claimed to have more than 20 “spiritual wives,” including 10 girls under the age of 18.

In the state case, Bateman acknowledged he knew the girls were in a hot trailer for hours and that the ventilation wasn’t good, but he downplayed the conditions.

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‘Nina Roza’ selected as Canada’s submission for Oscars international film category

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‘Nina Roza’ selected as Canada’s submission for Oscars international film category

Nicole Thompson, The Canadian Press 2 minute read Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2026

TORONTO - A film about a Bulgarian-Canadian art consultant's investigation into a supposed child prodigy from his homeland is Canada's submission for Oscars consideration.

Telefilm Canada announced Tuesday that "Nina Roza" is Canada's pick for best international feature.

The movie from director Geneviève Dulude-De Celles premiered at Berlinale earlier this year, where it won the Silver Bear for best screenplay, and it had a theatrical release in Quebec in April.

The film follows Mihail, who returns to Bulgaria for the first time in decades to look into the authenticity of an eight-year-old artist whose abstract paintings went viral online.

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