Around 1,800 people have fled their communities due to wildfires raging across northern Ontario, Premier Doug Ford said Monday, as officials consider further evacuations. Fires have destroyed communities, prompted numerous evacuation orders and filled...

The entire city of Kimberley, B.C., in the province's southeast region near the Alberta boundary has been placed on evacuation alert due to an out-of-control wildfire nearly six square kilometres in size.

PORT HARDY - A magnitude 5.6 earthquake has struck under the ocean off Vancouver Island. Earthquakes Canada says the quake happened at 11:41 p.m. local time on Sunday 219 kilometres southwest of Port Hardy on Vancouver Island's northern tip. It struck...

OTTAWA - The annual rate of inflation eased back below three per cent in June as motorists paid less to fill up the gas tank, Statistics Canada said Monday. Inflation slowed to 2.8 per cent in June, down from the recent high of 3.2 per cent in May and ...

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.8 per cent in June, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated widely because they are based on small statistical samples (previo...

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.8 per cent in June, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrador: 3.8 per cent (4.4) - Prince Edward Island: 3.8 per cent (3.8) - N...

OTTAWA - The federal government has awarded Babcock Canada a six-year extension on its servicing contract for the Royal Canadian Navy's Victoria-class submarines. The contract is valued at $1.1 billion and includes options to extend the in-service supp...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Statistics Canada set to report June inflation figures Statistics Canada is set to publish new inflation data for June this morning. A Reuters poll of economists ...

The remains of a dinosaur skull found in British Columbia campground belonged to a tyrannosaur that was lighter and faster than its more famous relative, the T. rex, say the authors of a new study. University of Alberta researchers studied the cast of...

EDMONTON - The U.S. Ambassador to Canada is set to speak in Edmonton today at a regional economic conference. The agenda for the Pacific Northwest Economic Region's annual summit says Pete Hoekstra is to talk about how regional partnerships support cro...

After sitting together with Prime Minister Mark Carney during Sunday's World Cup final in New Jersey, U.S. President Donald Trump isn't letting up on his threat to tariff Canada over wildfire smoke. Speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews on Sunday...

The union representing more than 5,000 hourly workers at the Ford Motor Company of Canada says members have overwhelmingly voted in favour of a three-year-deal with the automaker. Unifor says in a statement that members covered by the master agreement ...

Environment Canada is telling British Columbians to brace for poor air quality in the coming days, even as wildfire officials have downgraded a fire north of Whistler, B.C. and lifted evacuation alerts elsewhere. The weather agency said in an air-quali...

MONTREAL - More than 100 students gathered Sunday in front of a private college in Montreal to protest its closure after its permit was not renewed by the Quebec government. The protesters, most of them international students, say they were left in lim...

VANCOUVER - The final World Cup whistle has been blown, crowning Spain champions and bringing an end to Canada's month-long tournament celebration. North Vancouverite Evan Sawrenko is among fans in Toronto and Vancouver already feeling nostalgic. He ca...

OTTAWA - Canada is widely expected to enter into a multinational, next-generation fighter jet program this week, though not as a full member. International news media have reported for months that Ottawa is poised to sign onto a program to make a sixth...

Prime Minister Mark Carney says more than 5,000 firefighters and nearly 300 waterbombers and other aircraft are battling blazes as Canada experiences one of the worst wildfire seasons on record. Carney said he visited federal workers in Ottawa on Sunda...

VICTORIA - Penticton RCMP say they are investigating a Saturday night assault on the grounds of a local elementary school. Mounties say officers responded just before 11 p.m. to Queen's Park Elementary after receiving a report of an assault. Two people...

VICTORIA - West Kelowna RCMP say a 67-year-old man drowned Saturday, while attempting to swim across Lake Okanagan. Mounties say in a statement that the senior was participating in the Swim Across the Lake event, when another participant found him unre...

Nearly 1,000 active wildfires are burning across Canada, according to the national wildland fire summary, including 35 new blazes reported Sunday. More than 200 fires are deemed out of control. The fires continue to prompt air quality warnings, which ...

VICTORIA - Regional officials say water from a glacial lake near Pemberton, B.C. has started to flow downstream, threatening nearby properties. The Squamish-Lillooet Regional District says the public must stay away from Place Creek, Poole Creek, Gates...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government in Ottawa will bar foreign nationals who set foot in the Democratic Republic of Congo in the past 21 days from entry to Canada due to the risk of importing the deadly Ebola disease. The Public Health Agency of Canada sai...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has named MP Dane Lloyd as his "referendum lead" for Alberta. Albertans will vote this October on whether to hold a future referendum on separation from Canada. Poilievre says in an open letter Lloyd will w...

MONTREAL - In late 2023, amateur astronomer Joël Lapointe was using Google Maps to plan a summer road trip when he stumbled upon a strange looking pit. Now, that chance discovery has become something much more as researchers have confirmed it to be the...

MONTREAL - A new marine monitoring system that can detect undersea earthquakes, whale songs, ship noise and tidal activity could help improve environmental regulations, according to a recently-published study. The monitoring network, developed by scien...

THUNDER BAY - The smoke that blanketed Whitesand First Nation became thicker, darker and more acrid within hours. By Monday afternoon, debris started falling down from the pine trees. Panic began to grow in the remote Ontario community more than 250 ki...

OTTAWA - A newly released spy watchdog report says some federal agencies should do more to ensure information-sharing with other countries does not lead to torture. The National Security and Intelligence Review Agency report makes recommendations to st...

The wildfire season in British Columbia has been transformed in a flash, with lightning strikes sending the number of blazes burning in the province past 100. One of those fires is the Signal Hill Wildfire, which on Saturday afternoon was burning about...

Taco Bell in Canada says the lettuce that has caused an outbreak of the diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora in the United States has not been served at its locations. The company made the announcement in a social media post after lettuce served at fiv...

Crews in Nova Scotia were in the air and on the ground as they continued efforts Saturday to fight an out-of-control wildfire northeast of Halifax. The province's Natural Resources Department said the fire, which started earlier this week and triggered...

THUNDER BAY - Premier Doug Ford said the province has opened reception centres for people fleeing northern Ontario wildfires as he asked evacuees to not return to their homes, saying going back could jeopardize firefighting efforts. The warning comes a...

VICTORIA - A former B.C. cabinet minister is the new leader of CentreBC, an upstart political party that lacks a seat in the legislature but offers itself as a middle-of-the-road alternative to the two major parties in provincial politics. The party a...

Thousands of Canadian auto workers could secure three per cent wage increases every year for the next three if they agree to a new labour contract. Unifor released details of a proposed collective agreement between its bargaining leads and Ford Motor C...

More than 950 wildfires are scorching Canada from coast to coast, the national wildland fire summary says. Roughly 241 blazes are out of control. The fires have prompted Environment Canada to issue air quality warnings from B.C. to Quebec, as well as t...

More than 950 wildfires are scorching Canada from coast to coast, the national wildland fire summary says. Roughly 241 blazes are out of control. The fires have prompted Environment Canada to issue air quality warnings from B.C. to Quebec, as well as ...

OTTAWA - A large majority of Canadians in a recent poll said they worry that artificial intelligence data centres will hike their power bills and harm the environment. In the Leger poll, 81 per cent of respondents said they are concerned about the pros...

OTTAWA - Across Canada, plans are underway for a massive boom in construction of the huge new data centres needed for artificial intelligence technology. But opposition is also building as residents worry about how the facilities will affect their comm...

OTTAWA - Federal officials say there have been no outbreaks of the diarrhea-causing parasite cyclospora in Canada and that no lettuce implicated in an ongoing U.S. outbreak has been distributed in the country. Iceberg lettuce from Mexico served at Tac...

MONTREAL - Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard says the province's economy is faring better than expected despite global uncertainty. He says Quebec's deficit for the last fiscal year, which ended in March, showed an operational deficit of $5.5 billio...

TORONTO - Frank Stronach has been granted a mistrial on his sexual assault conviction, a rare post-verdict ruling that leaves the billionaire businessman to face a single remaining conviction out of a dozen initial charges. The 93-year-old was found g...

MONTREAL - Federal authorities are looking into whether Canadian National Railway Co. broke the law after a crew had to be evacuated from a train engulfed in flames in northwestern Ontario. The government is "conducting followup oversight" to determine...

Trump says on social media he is "holding Canada responsible" for not properly maintaining forested areas and that he will call Prime Minister Mark Carney to discuss the issue.

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is demanding more information from Prime Minister Mark Carney about the deal made with the Trump administration to open the Gordie Howe International Bridge. "It's time for you to release the deal so Canadi...

MONTREAL - Daniel Jolivet says he's gone through the full spectrum of human emotions since he learned that Justice Minister Sean Fraser has ordered a new trial in his case. "The crying, the laughter, the trembling - everything," he told journalists out...

VANCOUVER - The Canadian Cancer Society says Canada's federal and provincial governments need to strengthen regulations of vaping products to stem more youth addiction to nicotine, as e-cigarette marketing practices are poised to be put on trial in a n...