OTTAWA - The Conservative Party of Canada is calling for Ottawa to drop the federal tax on gas and diesel fuel for the rest of this year. The Tories say their plan would eliminate the Fuel Excise Tax at 10 cents per litre, the Clean Fuel Standard at 7 ...

The Canadian economy is expected to see modest growth this year, but the ongoing war in the Middle East and continued trade uncertainty are among the risks to that projection. Deloitte's spring economic outlook released Thursday estimated 1.2 per cent ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Jobs market is 'static' after a year of tariffs Thursday marks one year since U.S. President Donald Trump upended the global trading system with his "Liberation Da...

CAPE CANAVERAL - Canadian Jeremy Hansen is one of four astronauts circling Earth in a historic lunar mission after Artemis II successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday. On board with Hansen are veteran NASA astronauts Reid Wisem...

OTTAWA - Thursday marks one year since U.S. President Donald Trump upended the global trading system with his "Liberation Day" duties - a major step in his wider tariff campaign that's hammered critical sectors of Canada's labour market. With roughly a...

ST. JOHN'S - In early January, a bold telephone wire heist left about 135 people without phone services for about two weeks in Clarendon, a rural area of southern New Brunswick, between Fredericton and St. John. Clarendon does not have reliable cell...

MONTREAL - The man convicted of first-degree murder in the 2021 drive-by shooting death of a 15-year-old girl in Montreal will return to court today for sentencing. A jury found Salim Touaibi guilty last week of murdering Meriem Boundaoui, and also co...

VANCOUVER - Police say a man involved in British Columbia's deadly gang conflict who fled to Puerto Rico to dodge murder and conspiracy charges has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. The Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit says Conor D'Monte h...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver police say a man has been arrested after a series of robberies where the alleged thief bear sprayed unsuspecting sellers of high-value Pokémon cards. Police say there have been five robberies since March 23 involving transactions...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Wednesday rescinded a rule that DHS expenditures over $100,000 be personally approved by his office, ending a widely criticized policy implemented by his predecessor Kristi Noem that cri...

TUMBLER RIDGE - Police in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., say the destruction of 20 seized firearms was not related to the February mass shooting in the community, after the discovery of the parts by local residents triggered rumours they were somehow linked to t...

VICTORIA - The provincial government says B.C. now has the most doctors per capita in the country, while its recruitment efforts targeting U.S.-trained health professionals have wooed more than 500 people to the province as of last month. The health m...

VICTORIA - Changing British Columbia's Declaration on the Rights of Aboriginal Peoples Act is "non-negotiable" and it will be pushed into law, Premier David Eby said on Wednesday. "We are working with chiefs to try to find a path forward," Eby said at...

VICTORIA - British Columbia is moving to change its mandate on sales of zero-emission vehicles, reducing the 2035 target from 100 per cent to 75 per cent. The Ministry of Energy and Climate Solutions says the legislative changes would align the provinc...

EDMONTON - Alberta's teachers union says the government's suggestion that educators don't act with integrity or present issues in a balanced way is offensive. Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides tabled a bill this week that he said is aimed at gett...

EDMONTON - Alberta's government is proposing changes to give it more oversight of who hires temporary foreign workers. Jobs and Immigration Minister Joseph Schow proposed a bill Wednesday that, if passed, will require businesses to register with the pr...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is paying a U.S. firm to find emergency room physicians south of the border for temporary posts, largely in rural and northern communities. Shared Health, the province's central health planning body, has teamed up wit...

VANCOUVER - Multiple Facebook pages are claiming to share updates on the condition of a girl who survived a British Columbia school shooting in February, including that she is talking or has died. The posts are false, and come from Facebook "clickbait"...

HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY - The federal government says it will spend a record-setting $8 billion on defence-related projects in Newfoundland and Labrador, though planning remains in the early stages. The long-term investment for upgrades to 5 Wing Goose ...

OTTAWA - People across the country and around the world gathered on Wednesday to watch the launch of Artemis II, which sent humans back to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. Jeremy Hansen, 50, of London, Ont., will serve as the mission ...

ST. JOHN'S - Schools were closed in parts of Atlantic Canada on Wednesday as the region faced yet another onslaught of snow, freezing rain and howling winds, prolonging a winter season that has been difficult for many students and seniors. Frequent sto...

OTTAWA - The federal government's new "30 days or free" policy for issuing passports takes effect today. If it takes more than 30 business days to process an application, applicants will get a full refund of their passport or travel document fee. The g...

Duck Lake - a Saskatchewan community steeped in history that includes Louis Riel and the Northwest Rebellion - will not be renamed for a corporate sponsor. The mayor says a campaign accepting bids to buy the naming rights to the town is dead but admits...

WINNIPEG - Sex offender Peter Nygard is suing the Manitoba and Saskatchewan governments, Winnipeg police and others, alleging charges he faced in one case were an abuse of process. The former fashion mogul was charged in 2023 with sexually assaulting a...

OTTAWA - Two First Nations chiefs are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to apologize for saying he could "outlast" a First Nations woman who was protesting over mercury poisoning in her community. Chrissy Isaacs, a Grassy Narrows woman suffering fr...

OTTAWA - Monetary policy-makers at the Bank of Canada are relying more heavily on their own reasoning to chart a course for the policy interest rate through conflicting economic signals tied to the war in the Middle East. A summary of deliberations fro...

REGINA - Groups that represent doctors in Saskatchewan say they're worried a bill that proposes to force treatment on those battling drug addictions could put additional pressure on squeezed emergency rooms. "The Saskatchewan Medical Association isn't...

OTTAWA - Public Safety Canada says gun owners reported more than 67,000 banned firearms to the federal government as a first step toward receiving compensation in a buyback program. The tally is about half the number of firearms the federal government ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says he's still committed to delivering incentives to help Canadians go green, something he promised during his bid for the Liberal leadership a year ago but has so far not fully delivered. Carney promised a number o...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand will join talks Thursday with her counterparts from more than 30 other nations on finding diplomatic options to reopen the critical Strait of Hormuz trade corridor. Anand said all countries involved in the ...

QUÉBEC - Former Quebec minister Lionel Carmant is rejoining the Coalition Avenir Québec caucus, five months after he resigned from the governing party to sit as an Independent over concerns with a bill reforming doctor pay. A smiling Carmant made the a...

MONTREAL - The Quebec coroner's office says it has ordered an investigation into the deaths of five homeless people in Montreal after noticing an increase in deaths among some of the city's most vulnerable people. The mayor of Montreal and those work...

WASHINGTON (AP) - In a story published March 31, 2026, The Associated Press reported that President Donald Trump went to the Supreme Court in his first term for the ceremonial swearing-in of the first justice he appointed, Neil Gorsuch. The story shoul...

HALIFAX - A rowdy protest is part of democracy and should not result in the public being denied access to the Nova Scotia legislature for more than one week, say opposition parties and a Halifax journalism professor. Province House has been closed to t...

MONTREAL - The federal government pushed for travel rules that cut airlines more slack around paying compensation to passengers, despite resistance from Canada's transport regulator, internal documents show. Following legislation to reform the passenge...

OTTAWA - The federal government is giving Ukrainians who fled the Russian invasion another year to apply for work permit extensions. Ukrainians who came to Canada before March 31, 2024, will now have until next year to apply to extend their work permit...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Astronaut Hansen fulfilling lifelong dream: wife As Jeremy Hansen prepares to begin a historic mission to the moon aboard the Artemis II, his wife says his family ...

CAPE CANAVERAL - With a fiery roar from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Canadian Jeremy Hansen was one of four astronauts that launched to the moon aboard the Artemis II on Wednesday. Hansen broadcast a message just before liftoff: "We are going...

TORONTO - Stephen Lewis awakened the Canadian public's consciousness to the HIV-AIDS pandemic raging in Africa and galvanized the political will to stop standing idle, experts said following his death Tuesday. Lewis, who dedicated his life to advocatin...

TORONTO - The judge overseeing the sexual assault trial of billionaire businessman Frank Stronach told the court Wednesday she "couldn't possibly convict" him on the charges related to one of the complainants in the case, whose evidence she deemed "com...

TORONTO - Prosecutors argued Wednesday that an Ontario judge "speculated and drew inferences" not grounded in evidence when he granted bail to a Toronto-area lawyer accused of advising the murder of a federal witness in an alleged international drug sm...

OTTAWA - Canadians across the country watched the launch of Artemis II with a mix of excitement and nervousness, erupting into loud applause at the sight of the fiery liftoff of the historic moon mission. Gathered at historical sites, museums, librarie...

OTTAWA - A report by an expert in extremist financing and money laundering says the Canada Revenue Agency's approach to policing terrorist abuse "proved seriously deficient" in the case of a long-running audit of the Muslim Association of Canada. The r...

VANCOUVER - The father of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., mass shooting victim Maya Gebala says his daughter has been transferred out of intensive care into a "recovery and rehab-focused unit." David Gebala says in a Facebook post that the 12-year-old doesn't see...

OTTAWA - Provincial rules around alcohol and the federal government's "Buy Canadian" policy have been flagged in a new report citing several trade irritants between Canada and the U.S. The annual document prepared by the Office of the United States Tra...