Nobel Peace Prize

• Palestinian-Canadian doctor who previously lost 3 daughters now grieves 21 family members killed in Gaza

  A Palestinian-Canadian doctor who lost three daughters in 2009 continues to believe in a path to peace in Gaza as he grieves 21 family members recently killed.

  World

  Nov 17, 2023
  
• Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize

  Iran's jailed women's rights advocate Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a rebuke to Tehran's theocratic leaders and boost for anti-government protesters.

  World

  Oct 6, 2023
  
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• Nobel Peace Prize winner handed 10-year prison sentence in Belarus 

  A Belarusian court on Friday sentenced Ales Bialiatski, Belarus' top human rights advocate and one of the winners of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, to 10 years in prison.

  World

  Mar 3, 2023
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• Ukraine war: Nobel Peace Prize winners denounce Russia’s invasion

  The winners of this year's Nobel Peace Prize from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine shared their visions of a fairer world and denounced Russian President Putin's war in Ukraine.

  World

  Dec 10, 2022
• Nobel Peace Prize awarded to activists from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus amid war

  This year's Nobel Peace Prize is going to jailed Belarus rights activist Ales Bialiatski, the Russian group Memorial and the Ukrainian organization Center for Civil Liberties.

  World

  Oct 7, 2022
• Nobel Peace Prize 2022: Who are the top contenders this year?

  A total of 343 Nobel Peace Prize nominees – 251 individuals and 92 organizations – are vying for the 2022 award that will be announced in Oslo, Norway on Friday.

  Canada

  Oct 6, 2022
• Russian journalist sells Nobel Peace Prize for $103.5M to support Ukrainian children

  Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov has auctioned off his prize and donated the accompanying $500,000 cash award to give Ukraine child refugees "a chance for a future."

  World

  Jun 20, 2022
• Canadian-born David Card named as Nobel prize winner in economics

  Canada-born Card currently works at the University of California, Berkeley; Angrist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Dutch-born Imbens at Stanford University.

  Canada

  Oct 11, 2021
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• 2021 will have ‘famines of biblical proportions,’ Nobel UN agency warns

  David Beasley said the Norwegian Nobel Committee was looking at the work the agency does every day in conflicts, disasters and refugee camps, often putting staffers' lives at risk to feed millions of hungry people.

  World

  Nov 14, 2020
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• ‘I was stunned and elated’: former World Food Programme employee from Lethbridge reacts to Nobel Peace Prize

  A former United Nations employee who lives in Lethbridge is pleased to hear that this year's Nobel Peace Prize will be awarded to the UN's World Food Programme.

  News

  Oct 16, 2020