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Adva Rozenblit mourns over the coffin of her son staff Sgt. Gilad Rozenblit , 21, in Kibbutz Ginegar, northern Israel, Sunday Nov. 12, 2023. He was killed during a ground operation in the Gaza Strip.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Adva Rozenblit mourns over the coffin of her son staff Sgt. Gilad Rozenblit , 21, in Kibbutz Ginegar, northern Israel, Sunday Nov. 12, 2023. He was killed during a ground operation in the Gaza Strip.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
In this Nov. 6, 2007, file photo, a polar bear mother and her two cubs are seen in Wapusk National Park on the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Man. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

Science peers back centuries to map possible future for polar bears

Historically, bear population decreased with the sea ice as temperatures rose

In this Nov. 6, 2007, file photo, a polar bear mother and her two cubs are seen in Wapusk National Park on the shore of Hudson Bay near Churchill, Man. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward
Palestinians and foreign aid workers wait to cross into Egypt at Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Fatima Shbair

32 more Canadians leave Gaza, Canada says Palestinians can’t be forced out

Israel agrees to daily 4-hour pauses in offensive, making it easier for Canadians to leave

Palestinians and foreign aid workers wait to cross into Egypt at Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Fatima Shbair
Republican presidential candidate businessman Vivek Ramaswamy speaks during a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by NBC News, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County in Miami. Ramaswamy said he wants to build a wall at the Canada-U.S. border. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Rebecca Blackwell

Presidential hopeful wants to build a wall — between US and Canada

‘Just skate to where the puck is going,’ Vivek Ramaswamy says in bid to slow illegal migration

Republican presidential candidate businessman Vivek Ramaswamy speaks during a Republican presidential primary debate hosted by NBC News, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County in Miami. Ramaswamy said he wants to build a wall at the Canada-U.S. border. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP/Rebecca Blackwell
Palestinians and foreign aid workers wait to cross into Egypt at Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Fatima Shbair

Border still closed between Gaza and Egypt as Canadians wait

A U.S. spokesperson told reporters the closure was because of a ‘security circumstance’

Palestinians and foreign aid workers wait to cross into Egypt at Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP, Fatima Shbair
Shadows of striking actors including SAG-AFTRA member Isaac Burks, left, are pictured tapping together their picket signs outside Netflix studios, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Hollywood actors strike ends, filming expected to resume quickly

Deal needs to be ratified but actors guild satisfied it got the protection from AI it was seeking

Shadows of striking actors including SAG-AFTRA member Isaac Burks, left, are pictured tapping together their picket signs outside Netflix studios, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Canada and other major fossil-fuel-producing countries are failing to meet targets to keep global warming in check, a newly released major international report warned Wednesday, putting the world’s energy transition at risk. A flare stack lights the sky from a refinery in Edmonton on Friday, Dec. 28, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson

‘Humanity’s future in question’: UN says world failing to meet climate goals

Fossil fuel production inconsistent with what’s needed to halt rising temperatures

Canada and other major fossil-fuel-producing countries are failing to meet targets to keep global warming in check, a newly released major international report warned Wednesday, putting the world’s energy transition at risk. A flare stack lights the sky from a refinery in Edmonton on Friday, Dec. 28, 2018. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
FILE - The Airbnb app icon is displayed on an iPad screen in Washington, D.C., on May 8, 2021. Airbnb reports earnings on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

Airbnb set to play favourites with listings in bid to improve reliability

Airbnb said that it will roll out what it calls ‘Guest Favorites’ ranking system this week

FILE - The Airbnb app icon is displayed on an iPad screen in Washington, D.C., on May 8, 2021. Airbnb reports earnings on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
A Palestinian Hamas policeman guards the departure gate of the Gaza seaport as fishing boats prepare to attempt to sail for Europe, carrying people including students and medical patients unable to leave through overland crossings, as a protest against the blockade of Gaza, Tuesday, July 10, 2018. In May Palestinian activists also set sail in defiance of years of an Israeli and Egyptian naval blockade on the Gaza Strip but were turned back by Israel. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)

59 Canadians and people connected to them have departed Gaza for Egypt

‘Finally, the first group of Canadians were evacuated out of Gaza’

A Palestinian Hamas policeman guards the departure gate of the Gaza seaport as fishing boats prepare to attempt to sail for Europe, carrying people including students and medical patients unable to leave through overland crossings, as a protest against the blockade of Gaza, Tuesday, July 10, 2018. In May Palestinian activists also set sail in defiance of years of an Israeli and Egyptian naval blockade on the Gaza Strip but were turned back by Israel. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
Palestinians and foreign aid workers wait to cross into Egypt at Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Canadians looking to flee Gaza continue to await confirmation on when they can cross into Egypt, with no official announcement yet from Global Affairs Canada on a date or time, one month after the latest Israel-Hamas war began. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Fatima Shbair

Canadians finally starting to make their way out of war-torn Gaza

A cohort of Canadian citizens and their loved ones have been given the green light today

Palestinians and foreign aid workers wait to cross into Egypt at Rafah, Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. Canadians looking to flee Gaza continue to await confirmation on when they can cross into Egypt, with no official announcement yet from Global Affairs Canada on a date or time, one month after the latest Israel-Hamas war began. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Fatima Shbair
A protester stands on the Indian flag outside of the Consulate General of India office during a protest in Vancouver on Saturday, June 24, 2023. Business leaders continue to fret over the economic uncertainty fostered by the rift between the Canadian and Indian governments, saying the ongoing suspension of free trade talks hurts both sides. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns

Business leaders mourn souring relations between India and Canada

Trade potential between Canada and India remains largely unrealized, observers say

A protester stands on the Indian flag outside of the Consulate General of India office during a protest in Vancouver on Saturday, June 24, 2023. Business leaders continue to fret over the economic uncertainty fostered by the rift between the Canadian and Indian governments, saying the ongoing suspension of free trade talks hurts both sides. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
Longtime Florida social worker Connie Going looks at a computer screen with an image of her adopted son Davion in her adoptions office June 12, 2023, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Going said the Family-Match tool gives false hope to waiting parents by failing to deliver successful matches, and ultimately makes her job harder. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)

AI tool for adoption matchmaking falls short for vulnerable US foster kids

Virginia and Georgia dropped algorithm after trial runs, noting its inability to produce adoptions

Longtime Florida social worker Connie Going looks at a computer screen with an image of her adopted son Davion in her adoptions office June 12, 2023, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Going said the Family-Match tool gives false hope to waiting parents by failing to deliver successful matches, and ultimately makes her job harder. (AP Photo/Chris O’Meara)
Nigerian officials say there have been deaths after a fire at Canada’s high commission in Abuja. Cars drive past the National Assembly building in Abuja, Nigeria, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Chinedu Asadu

2 dead as fuel tank explodes at Canada’s high commission in Nigeria

Pair confirmed as Nigerian maintenance workers, incident believed to be a terrible accident

Nigerian officials say there have been deaths after a fire at Canada’s high commission in Abuja. Cars drive past the National Assembly building in Abuja, Nigeria, Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Chinedu Asadu
Omar Mansour (left) visits with family members in Gaza in a handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Omar Mansour

B.C. man’s Gaza family ponders if it’s better to face death together or apart?

Permanent resident living in Vancouver trying to stay in touch with family throughout conflict

Omar Mansour (left) visits with family members in Gaza in a handout photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Omar Mansour
FILE -Russell Eagle Bear, with the Rosebud Sioux Reservation Tribal Council, talks to U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland during a meeting about Native American boarding schools at Sinte Gleska University in Mission, S.D., Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. Haaland plans to be in Bozeman, Mont. Sunday to wrap up her nationwide tour confronting the legacy of the institutions where students were often abused. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)

Survivors say trauma from abusive Native American boarding schools continues

An report released by the Interior Department identified 408 government-backed schools in 37 states

FILE -Russell Eagle Bear, with the Rosebud Sioux Reservation Tribal Council, talks to U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland during a meeting about Native American boarding schools at Sinte Gleska University in Mission, S.D., Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. Haaland plans to be in Bozeman, Mont. Sunday to wrap up her nationwide tour confronting the legacy of the institutions where students were often abused. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
Palestinians look at the destruction after Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip in Khan Younis, Saturday, Now. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
Palestinians look at the destruction after Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip in Khan Younis, Saturday, Now. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks during a break in his civil business fraud trial at New York Supreme Court, Oct. 25, 2023, in New York. The Donald Trump who testifies at a New York civil trial on Monday may be more subdued than the version often seen in campaign rallies. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Trump’s decades of testimony provide clues on how he’ll fight for real estate empire

Former president has testified in court in at least 8 trials since 1986

FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks during a break in his civil business fraud trial at New York Supreme Court, Oct. 25, 2023, in New York. The Donald Trump who testifies at a New York civil trial on Monday may be more subdued than the version often seen in campaign rallies. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Palestinians carry a dead person from under the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)

Israeli warplanes hit refugee camps in Gaza Strip, killing scores

Strike comes despite calls from U.S. for fighting pause to aid civilians

Palestinians carry a dead person from under the rubble of a destroyed house following an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Abed Khaled)
Iranian demonstrators holds posters of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock during a rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, marking 44th anniversary of the seizure of the embassy by militant Iranian students, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iranians mark the anniversary of the 1979 US Embassy takeover

It comes as Iranians condemn Washington’s support of Israel as it strikes the Gaza Strip in war against Hamas

Iranian demonstrators holds posters of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini and Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock during a rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, marking 44th anniversary of the seizure of the embassy by militant Iranian students, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani at a hotel during a day of meetings, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Amman, Jordan, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023.(Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP)

Arab leaders push for an Israel-Hamas cease-fire now

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned that such a move would be counterproductive

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, meets with Qatari Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani at a hotel during a day of meetings, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Amman, Jordan, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023.(Jonathan Ernst/Pool Photo via AP)