BREAKING Top Hezbollah commander killed in Israeli strike on Beirut, security sources tell Reuters
Top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil was killed on Friday in an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, two security sources told Reuters.
Similar to other rulers in Britain's history, biographer Hugo Vickers believes Queen Elizabeth II too has earned a moniker of her own.
"Like Alfred the Great, I think she should be called Elizabeth the Steadfast," he said.
Speaking to Chief News Anchor and Senior Editor of CTV National News Lisa LaFlamme, Vickers remarked on the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, a four-day event commemorating her 70 years on the throne.
Queen Elizabeth II's tenure makes her the longest reigning monarch of Britain and its Commonwealth nations.
The Platinum Jubilee celebrations began on Thursday, with the Queen stepping out onto the balcony of Buckingham Palace alongside other working members of the Royal Family to greet thousands of fans.
"Even the most ardent Republican respects her for what she has done as a calm and confident, steadfast head of state," Vickers said.
"I mean, what countries in the world wouldn't want to have a head of state like ours?"
Vickers, , participated in a Thanksgiving service at St. Paul's Cathedral on Friday, an event the Queen, who is 96, had to skip over what Buckingham Palace described as "discomfort."
While Her Majesty's absence was disappointing, Vickers said the service "all went ahead" and was "magnificent."
"We've got to face up to the fact that we are living at the tail end of a golden reign, which has been the most wonderful thing to live through I must say," he said.
"I couldn't think of a reign in history which I'd rather have lived."
Watch the full video with Chief News Anchor and Senior Editor of CTV National News Lisa LaFlamme at the top of the article.
Top Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil was killed on Friday in an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, two security sources told Reuters.
Since she was a young girl growing up in Vancouver, Ginny Lam says her mom Yat Hei Law made it very clear she favoured her son William, because he was her male heir.
The province's public security minister said he was "shocked" Thursday amid reports that a body believed to be that of a 14-year-old boy was found this week near a Hells Angels hideout near Quebec City.
An Ontario man says it is 'unfair' to pay a $1,500 insurance surcharge because his four-year-old SUV is at a higher risk of being stolen.
Smoke is rising over Lebanon’s capital of Beirut Friday after Israel’s military struck southern suburbs – a dramatic escalation in a year-long period of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
Emergency crews in northern Ontario found the bodies of four people inside a home where a fire broke out Thursday night.
Following the MIND diet for 10 years produced a small but significant decrease in the risk of developing thinking, concentration and memory problems, a new study found.
The Montreal couple from Mexico and their three children facing deportation have received a temporary residence permit.
A 20-year-old man and his co-conspirator have been charged with conspiracy to steal and launder over US$230 million in cryptocurrency, and federal authorities said the arrests are connected to an FBI raid of a mansion in Miami.
They say a dog is a man’s best friend. In the case of Darren Cropper, from Bonfield, Ont., his three-year-old Siberian husky and golden retriever mix named Bear literally saved his life.
A growing group of brides and wedding photographers from across the province say they have been taken for tens of thousands of dollars by a Barrie, Ont. wedding photographer.
Paleontologists from the Royal B.C. Museum have uncovered "a trove of extraordinary fossils" high in the mountains of northern B.C., the museum announced Thursday.
The search for a missing ancient 28-year-old chocolate donkey ended with a tragic discovery Wednesday.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is celebrating an important milestone in the organization's history: 50 years since the first women joined the force.
It's been a whirlwind of joyful events for a northern Ontario couple who just welcomed a baby into their family and won the $70 million Lotto Max jackpot last month.
A Good Samaritan in New Brunswick has replaced a man's stolen bottle cart so he can continue to collect cans and bottles in his Moncton neighbourhood.
David Krumholtz, known for roles like Bernard the Elf in The Santa Clause and physicist Isidor Rabi in Oppenheimer, has spent the latter part of his summer filming horror flick Altar in Winnipeg. He says Winnipeg is the most movie-savvy town he's ever been in.
Edmontonians can count themselves lucky to ever see one tiger salamander, let alone the thousands one local woman says recently descended on her childhood home.