Politics

OTTAWA — Global Affairs Canada plans to install a plaque commemorating Canada's evacuation of Afghans and embassy staff when its capital Kabul fell to the Taliban, but critics argue that sends the wrong message.

OTTAWA — At a three-day retreat in Ottawa this week, New Democrat members of Parliament are expected to focus discussions on getting more wins out of their confidence-and-supply agreement with the federal Liberals.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Fifteen Ukrainian deminers are being trained by experts in Cambodia who are among the world's best because of experience from clearing the leftovers of nearly three decades of war.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will travel to California's central coast Thursday to visit areas that have been devastated by extreme weather.

SASKATOON — Justin Trudeau pressed Saskatchewan's government on its record for clean energy projects after Premier Scott Moe expressed disappointment he was not made aware of the prime minister's visit to a rare earth elements processing plant.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she is no longer pursuing amnesty for COVID-19 health-rule violators because Canada doesn’t work that way.

OTTAWA — After a decade of work tracing DNA back multiple generations, the remains of a Vancouver soldier have been identified more than 100 years after he died in France. The remains of Cpl.

SASKATOON — The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations says it is dismayed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not visit the First Nation where a child’s bone was found at a former residential school site.

OTTAWA — After the murder of a former Afghan member of Parliament on the weekend, an all-party group of MPs is calling on the Canadian government to help bring others to safety.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's transportation secretary usually holds one of the most public-facing roles in any presidential administration.