HALIFAX - The Whale Sanctuary Project, a proposed underwater enclosure that would encompass roughly 40 hectares off of Nova Scotia's eastern shore, needs up to $15 million if it hopes to open by the end of summer 2026. Charles Vinick, CEO of the U.S.-...

TORONTO - Canadian politicians and community groups are sharing messages of support after at least 16 people were killed in a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia. Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canadians stand with Jewish people in A...

OTTAWA - Promoters of Canadian English say the federal government is sending the wrong message to the world with its recent use of British spelling in official documents. In a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, five linguistics experts and an editor...

ABBOTSFORD - Abbotsford fire chief Erick Peterson says the city is hoping to lift remaining evacuation orders for more than 300 properties in the Sumas Prairie today, as floodwaters in the city recede. Peterson says the city is still maintaining an up...

OneBC, the party formed after a split with the Conservative Party of B.C., says leader Dallas Brodie has been "removed" by the party's board of directors. The party's only other elected member sitting in the B.C. Legislature, MLA Tara Armstrong, says ...

TORONTO - Members of Canada's Jewish community expressed anger and resolve on Sunday ahead of planned holiday events in the wake of a deadly mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia. Levi Gansburg, the rabbi at Chabad on Bayview in Toronto,...

ABBOTSFORD - Rainfall warnings have gone up across British Columbia's flood-drenched Fraser Valley as another wave of soaking weather hits the region. Environment Canada says the valley, including Abbotsford, which was inundated by cross-border floodin...

CALGARY - The prospect of building a new bitumen pipeline to the West Coast has garnered most of the attention since Ottawa and Alberta announced their sweeping energy accord late last month, but another item has left environmentalists dismayed and ene...

QUÉBEC - The Quebec government is warning that a draft energy deal with Newfoundland and Labrador could be at risk if it's not settled before next year's provincial election. In a recent interview with The Canadian Press, Economy Minister Christine Fr...

TORONTO - The Toronto Zoo says it has euthanized one of its lions after the animal spent several months undergoing veterinary care for a gastrointestinal symptoms. In a Friday social media post the zoo says Fintan, a 13-year-old "majestic male white l...

OTTAWA - Members of the Métis Nation of Ontario say an upcoming academic summit in the province amounts to an attack on their history because it questions the legitimacy of their connection to Métis heritage and territorial claims. But the First Nation...

ABBOTSFORD - Abbotsford, B.C., resident Teresa Vogel showed up Saturday at Delair Park, where her son plays baseball, to see the damage from floodwaters for herself after heavy rain flooded parts of the city and closed roads, including a stretch of the...

LETHBRIDGE - Amendments to Alberta's legislation on citizen-initiated referendums mean Corb Lund's recently approved application for a petition drive to stop new coal mining on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains is cancelled and the singer has t...

A Mountie accused of making racist and sexist comments in group chats should be dismissed immediately or directed to resign within 14 days, the lawyer for the RCMP's conduct authority told an adjudication board hearing Friday. John MacLaughlan said Con...

VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby said his government plans to offer private owners of land in the Cowichan Aboriginal title area more than $150 million in loan guarantees, amid fears about the impact of the landmark ruling on their financi...

CALGARY - Alberta's early-learning and child-care fees will remain at $15-a-day through to 2027 as it works with Ottawa to firm up a more permanent deal. The two jointly announced an extension on the current deal, with the federal government providing ...

VANCOUVER - Marine mammal rescuers in British Columbia say a weeks-long operation has successfully freed a sea lion from a rope wrapped around its neck that was causing "rapidly worsening injuries." The Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society s...

The union for Alberta's teachers says it has filed an unfair bargaining complaint against the province, accusing it of making "bait-and-switch" claims about hiring new teachers during a recent labour standoff. The filing to the Alberta Labour Relations...

MONTREAL - A 15-year-old boy was shot dead by Longueuil police in September, triggering an investigation into how the police force just south of Montreal handled the fatal call. But new allegations have surfaced suggesting the police force attempted to...

The lawyer for the RCMP's conduct authority says a Mountie accused of making racist and sexist comments in group chats should be dismissed immediately or directed to resign within 14 days. John MacLaughlan says Constable Ian Solven "has severed the emp...

ATHABASCA - Mounties in northern Alberta say there were multiple injuries after a bus carrying a junior hockey team went off a slippery and snow-covered highway. Police said the bus went into a ditch south of Athabasca early Friday, and two teens were ...

HALIFAX - The group behind a plan to build a coastal refuge for captive whales in Nova Scotia says the government of France intends to work with them on a strategy to bring two killer whales to the proposed site. The U.S.-based Whale Sanctuary Project ...

A list posted to social media claimed to show a supposed global ranking of countries with the largest homeless population, in which Canada ranked number eight. The list actually shows data from countries that are part of the Organization for Economic ...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is forecast to see its federal equalization payments jump by $355 million, or 7.5 per cent, in the next fiscal year as it continues to try to balance the provincial budget. New figures from the federal finance ministr...

The Canada Border Services Agency says 15 foreigners facing extortion charges have applied for refugee status in Canada. The statement neither reveals the nationalities of the individuals nor details about their applications, but Surrey, B.C. Mayor Bre...

EDMONTON - Alberta election officials are getting an extra $6.7 million to handle the sudden outburst of recall petitions against legislature members. A legislative committee unanimously signed off on the funding during a meeting Friday. It comes a wee...

VANCOUVER - Canisters of nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, sold under the guise of whip cream chargers are increasingly showing up at Metro Vancouver waste facilities, and they're causing dangerous explosions. The regional district says it wan...

OTTAWA - The federal government says it will purchase six Global 6500 jets to replace the Royal Canadian Air Force's remaining Challenger aircraft, which are used to shuttle around VIPs like the prime minister and Governor General. The contract is expe...

TORONTO - In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the royal charter that created Canada's oldest company was loaded onto a private plane in Toronto. Protected by a durable case that was not too hot, not too cold and sheltered from bright light, the 350-...

OTTAWA - On Thursday, Michael Ma became the second Conservative MP to cross the floor to the Liberal caucus in as many months. Ma's decision to join the government, following Nova Scotia MP Chris d'Entremont's surprise floor-crossing in early November,...

VANCOUVER - More than $1.3 million in fines have been levied against two companies involved in a series of B.C. crane accidents, including an incident last year at Vancouver's Oakridge Park development, where a worker was killed by material that fell 2...

CHARLOTTETOWN - Bloyce Thompson has been sworn in as the 35th premier of Prince Edward Island. In a statement Friday, the new premier said serving Islanders in this way is an extraordinary honour. "Our government remains focused on the work ahead - str...

TORONTO - A provincially appointed supervisor has fired the director of education at Ontario's largest school board, amid a shakeup of board governance by the education minister. The supervisor of the Toronto District School Board said in a memo to sta...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is accusing Prime Minister Mark Carney of trying to wheel and deal his way to a majority government after a second Tory MP joined the Liberal caucus. "He's trying to manipulate and engineer for himself a ma...

MONTREAL - Lawyers representing the family of a Longueuil, Que., teen who was shot dead by police in September say they are shocked by allegations of police interference in the investigation by the province's police watchdog. The allegations came to li...

MONTREAL - The first segment of the federal government's proposed high-speed rail project will connect Montreal and Ottawa, acting as a test case for a multibillion-dollar infrastructure project intended to transform rail travel in Canada's most densel...

Bill C-15 removes a clause in Canada Post legislation providing reduced shipping rates for books and materials mailed between libraries or to library users. The bill proposes Canada Post set its own rates.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Flooding in Fraser Valley could peak today as B.C. prepares for second system Flooding in the Fraser Valley, caused by overflow from the Nooksack River in Washingt...

ABBOTSFORD - Flooding in the Fraser Valley, caused by overflow from the Nooksack River in Washington state, is expected to peak today, as residents wait to see the severity of the inundation. David Campbell with the BC River Forecast Centre says water ...

CHARLOTTETOWN - Rob Lantz has announced that he is resigning as premier of Prince Edward Island as he seeks to become the permanent leader of the province's Progressive Conservatives. Lantz had been interim leader of the party and was sworn in as premi...

OTTAWA - A member of the Canadian Armed Forces has been arrested and charged in a joint police operation looking into foreign interference and security of information. Master Warrant Officer Matthew Robar, a member of the Canadian Forces Intelligence C...

Toronto-area MP Michael Ma is leaving the Conservatives to join Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberals. His move puts the Liberals one seat shy of a majority government, with 171 seats.

EDMONTON - Two advocacy groups fighting the Alberta government on its transgender laws say they're looking to keep one of their challenges alive by changing their argument in court. The renewed challenge from Egale and Skipping Stone comes one day afte...

MONTREAL - The mayor of Longueuil, Que., is asking the Quebec government to investigate police actions in the aftermath of a fatal police shooting involving a 15-year-old boy. Mayor Catherine Fournier says she took the exceptional decision to ask Publi...

WINNIPEG - A Progressive Conservative pamphlet before the 2023 Manitoba election campaign that detailed Premier Wab Kinew's criminal past, along with related comments made by volunteers, did not violate the province's Elections Act, elections commissio...