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International men's soccer: Argentinian national team captain Lionel Messi (in blue) embraces Canadian national team captain Alphonoso Davies (red) at Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium on June 20, 2024. Argentina defeated Canada 2 - 0 during the first day of group stage play at Copa América 2024.

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Copa América Day 1: Argentina defeats Canada in Atlanta as crowd chants Lionel Messi's name

Follow along with GPB Sports as we cover the Copa América international men's soccer tournament, which returns to Atlanta's Mercedes-Benz Stadium on Thursday, June 27 for a matchup between Panama and the United States.

June 21, 2024
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  • Jon Nelson
Sir Ernest Shackleton is shown as he arrived in New York on the Aquitania on a hurried business trip to Canada in January 1921. The wreck of the last ship belonging to the famed explorer of Antarctica has been found off the coast of Canada by an international team led by the Royal Canadian Geographical Society.

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  • History

Wreck of famed explorer Shackleton's last ship has been found off the coast of Canada

The explorer led three British expeditions to the Antarctic, and he was in the early stages of a fourth when he died of a heart attack aboard the Quest near the Falkland Islands.

June 13, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
A banner that shows the late Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar is displayed outside the Guru Nanak Sikh Gurdwara Sahib in Surrey, British Columbia, on Sept. 18, 2023.

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  • World

Canadian police arrest 3 suspects in the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader

Police said they arrested three Indian nationals in the slaying of Hardeep Singh Nijjar last June that became the center of a diplomatic spat with India.

May 04, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
Pond Inlet on Baffin Island is one of the Inuit communities in the Canadian arctic facing a TB outbreak.

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  • Global Health

Why does TB have such a hold on the Inuit communities of the Canadian Arctic?

Canada has one of the world's lowest rates of tuberculosis. Yet this deadly disease is surging among Indigenous people in this icy, remote part of the country.

May 02, 2024
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  • Melody Schreiber
People gather to watch the total solar eclipse at Parc Jean Drapeau, in Montreal, Monday.

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  • Latin America

Montreal reports great conditions for a solar eclipse watch party in the park

Montreal is in the path of totality, and its largest eclipse-watching event is taking place in Parc Jean-Drapeau.

April 08, 2024
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  • Emma Jacobs
Brian Mulroney, the former prime minister of Canada, listens during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Canada-U.S.-Mexico relationship on Jan. 30, 2018, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

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  • World

Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has died at 84

Former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who forged close ties with two Republican U.S. presidents through a free trade agreement that was once vilified but now celebrated has died. He was 84.

March 01, 2024
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  • GPB Newsroom
The Food And Drug Administration has given its OK to Florida's plan to import some prescription drugs from Canada.

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  • Health

FDA approves Florida's plan to import cheaper drugs from Canada

The Food and Drug Administration's authorization of Florida's plan to import prescription medicines from Canada is a first. But the state still has hurdles to clear before imports could begin.

January 05, 2024
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  • Sydney Lupkin
Ice skaters in front of Ottawa City Hall in Ontario on Dec. 12, 2023.

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  • World

Canada grapples with the effects of deteriorating relations with India and China

As relations sour with India and China, Canada is grappling with how to stand up to powerful or authoritarian nations without sacrificing its longstanding values, such as protecting human rights.

December 27, 2023
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  • Jackie Northam
In this image taken from security video, a light-colored vehicle (top center) flies over a fence into the Rainbow Bridge customs plaza on Wednesday in Niagara Falls, N.Y.

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  • National

N.Y. governor says no sign of terrorism in deadly vehicle explosion at border bridge

Two occupants in the vehicle that exploded at the Rainbow Bridge in Niagara Falls, N.Y., are both dead, officials said. "At this time there is no indication of a terrorist attack," the governor said.

November 22, 2023
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  • Jonathan Franklin
Striking St. Lawrence Seaway workers picket outside the St. Lambert Lock in St. Lambert, Quebec, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023.

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  • World

Canadian workers reach deal to end strike that shut down Great Lakes shipping artery

A deal was reached Sunday to end a week-long strike that had shut down a major shipping artery in the Great Lakes, halting the flow of grain and other goods from the U.S. and Canada.

October 31, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Lana Payne, Unifor national president is shown speaking during a news conference, Aug. 29, 2023, in Toronto.

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  • Business

Canadian autoworkers and General Motors reach a tentative contract agreement

The deal recognizes employee contributions with significant pay and benefit increases and additional job security, the automaker said.

October 11, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Jenny Gusse and Doug Inglis worked together doing scientific research at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, a government agency. In their free time, they were avid outdoors enthusiasts.

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  • Animals

The couple killed by a bear in Banff were able to send an SOS text: 'Bear attack bad'

The two backpackers in Canada's Banff National Park seem to have emptied a can of bear spray, trying to get the animal to leave their camp. When rescuers arrived, the bear charged at them.

October 06, 2023
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  • Bill Chappell
People hold flags during a Sikh rally outside the Indian Consulate in Toronto to raise awareness in the wake of the Canadian prime minister's comments alleging Indian government agents were potentially involved in the June killing of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia, on Monday.

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  • World

Why India's warnings about Sikh separatism don't get much traction in the West

The current India-Canada crisis has exposed a sharp disconnect between India and the West on the issue of Sikh separatism. Michael Kugelman of the Wilson Center's South Asia Institute explains why.

September 28, 2023
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  • Michael Kugelman
The Speaker of the House of Commons Anthony Rota delivers a speech following an address by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023.

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  • World

Canada's House speaker has stepped down after inviting a Nazi veteran to Parliament

Just after Ukrainian President Zelenskyy gave an address in the House of Commons, Canadian lawmakers gave 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka a standing ovation when the House speaker drew attention to him.

September 27, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
A screenshot taken from social media shows passengers dangling from the area after the abrupt stop of of the Lumberjack ride at Ontario's Wonderland theme park.

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  • National

Ride passengers rescued after dangling upside down, 75 feet up, for half an hour

The oscillating Lumberjack ride at Canada's Wonderland theme park stopped suddenly, in mid-air, on Sunday. Videos posted to social media captured the sounds of passengers crying for help.

September 25, 2023
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  • Emily Olson
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