CALGARY - Calgary city council is stating clearly it wants to stay in a united Canada. Councillors have voted to affirm that the city is a "vital part of Alberta and Canada" as the province barrels toward a vote about separating from the country. It wa...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia voters are heading to the polls in a snap election set for Oct. 24, a week after municipal elections take place across the province. The election comes less than two years into NDP Leader David Eby's mandate and follows wee...

Business groups are applauding new federal legislation that aims to speed up major projects, saying it includes measures they have long been urging Ottawa to take to boost Canada's competitive stature. Bill C-39, which was introduced in the House o...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is pledging $100 million in new aid for Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. The funding includes $80 million in humanitarian aid, while the rest is development funding for security initiatives, includ...

NEW YORK - U.S. President Donald Trump says his country will continue buying Canadian potash after all. Trump made the comments to reporters Tuesday during a bilateral meeting at the United Nations General Assembly with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Z...

OTTAWA - As European countries warn of the emerging threat of Russian hybrid attacks on NATO members helping Ukraine, the Liberal government is watching what it says about potential new security risks. Prime Minister Mark Carney said the threat of hybr...

SYDNEY - Proponents behind a 13-year-old bid to build a shipping container port in Cape Breton say they're now focused on developing a terminal to support the offshore wind sector. Novaporte, led by CEO Albert Barbusci, issued a statement Tuesday sayin...

British Columbians are going to the polls about two years ahead of schedule, after NDP Leader David Eby called an early election to be held on Oct. 24. Here's a look at the party leaders in a political landscape that is very different from the one that...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's political arena is undergoing breakneck restructuring ahead of an Oct. 24 snap election that NDP Leader David Eby called on Tuesday, framing it as necessary to respond to the threat posed by U.S. President Donald Trump and...

OTTAWA - The Canadian government has offered Indigenous groups a collective 15 per cent ownership stake in the Trans Mountain pipeline, advancing a long-promised plan to give First Nations equity in the federally owned infrastructure connecting Alberta...

EDMONTON - Elections Alberta says the number of mail-in ballots requested for next month's referendum has surpassed 610,000. The new total is an increase of about 90,000 since Friday and continues the trend of growing interest in voting by mail for the...

OTTAWA - Human rights advocates and members of the Iranian community in Canada are urging the government to stop automatically blocking immigrants who were forced to serve in Iran's Revolutionary Guard. Former Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps conscrip...

OTTAWA - Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon said he spoke with his international counterparts in the G7 on Tuesday about setting up an organization to tackle AI safety. The "technology stability board" would evaluate AI models for testing be...

MONTREAL - A new report says retirees who have accumulated little net worth are at increased risk of poor health. A Quebec-based research group that studies inequality released the report on Tuesday. The Observatoire québécois des inégalités conducted ...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her government is axing its fuel tax for three months to help combat the cost at the pumps. Smith says drivers will save 13 cents a litre on gasoline and diesel starting Oct. 1. "Every fill-up will cost Al...

OTTAWA - Several seniors were arrested on Parliament Hill and charged with trespassing Tuesday as they called for stronger government action to address climate change. Members of a self-described "climate caravan" tried to deliver hundreds of photos an...

OTTAWA - The federal government introduced its promised bill to extend the federal gas tax pause for several more months shortly after Parliament resumed sitting following the summer break. Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne tabled the legisl...

OTTAWA - Canada has contributed to dozens of aid projects in the Palestinian territories that have since been damaged or destroyed by the Israeli military and Israeli settlers, according to a document tabled Monday in Parliament. "We're complicit and I...

OTTAWA - The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations has warned Prime Minister Mark Carney against "abusing" his majority government powers to pass the new major projects bill, which she said could trample on First Nations' rights. "Yesterday w...

A former soldier who allegedly triggered a shootout with a police officer outside a Belleville, Ont., synagogue on Sunday has died. The Special Investigations Unit, Ontario's police watchdog, confirmed that Sean Ward died on Monday night and said an au...

WALKERTON - Ontario farmers are looking for help as the cost of diesel hits record levels amid the war in Iran that has disrupted global crude oil shipments. Jesse Kenwell runs a cash crop and cow-calf operation near Collingwood, Ont., and said diesel ...

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Avi Lewis says it's "disingenuous" for the government not to use the word privatization to describe its plan to have investors take over operations of Canada's four biggest airports. Prime Minister Mark Carney made the pitch at the ...

TORONTO - A wedding missed. A school semester deferred. The last several months have been marked by misses for people from the Democratic Republic of Congo with ties to Canada. Visa holders from the DRC have been banned from entering the country sinc...

OTTAWA - Labour leaders are denouncing what they call a direct attack on the right to strike in the sweeping economic bill the Liberal government tabled Monday. The Canadian Labour Congress on Tuesday accused the federal government of enshrining in the...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Up to 30 shots fired near Belleville, Ont., synagogue as police faced gunman: SIU A man armed with a shotgun allegedly opened fire at a police officer stationed ou...

VICTORIA - B.C. Premier David Eby has arrived at Government House in Victoria, amid expectations he will call a snap election. The premier, who is less than two years into his mandate, has called reporters to the official residence of Lt.-Gov. Wendy Co...

Amid Canada's aspirations to be a global economic power, a new report from PwC Canada and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce says barriers in key industries are preventing the country from reaching its full potential. The report said the c...

MONTREAL - Quebec's party leaders are expected to be back out on the campaign trail today, with less than two weeks to go before the provincial election vote. The leaders of the Parti Québécois, Liberals, Coalition Avenir Québec, Conservatives and Québ...

UNITED NATIONS - U.S. President Donald Trump told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday he has a choice to make on Iran: negotiate a deal or "annihilate the Islamic Republic." In a wide-ranging speech, Trump defended his war on Iran and boaste...

MONTREAL - A Quebec man found guilty of second-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his two children is expected to appear today before the Parole Board of Canada. Guy Turcotte is expected to make a request for temporary escorted absences from priso...

OTTAWA - The federal government has approved expansion of the Tilbury LNG facility in Delta, B.C., saying potential adverse effects are justified by the project's benefits. Monday's approval under the "one project, one review" principle came immediatel...

PENTICTON - Police say they are continuing to work with wildfire personnel and others on a multi-agency investigation into the origin of the Bald Range fire, which destroyed or damaged about 150 properties in British Columbia's south Okanagan last mont...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - A long-running legal fight over Missouri's congressional map took another turn Monday when a federal appeals panel ruled in favor of new districts backed by President Donald Trump, even though the U.S. Supreme Court has block...

TORONTO - A fourth whale that was moved out of Marineland in July has died after struggling with its health after arriving at her new home in Chicago, Shedd Aquarium said Monday. The park said 26-year-old Osiris died Monday morning. The female beluga w...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney's government tabled a bill Monday to fast-track approvals for major projects. The Building Canada Strong Act removes the responsibility for reviewing many big projects, such as pipelines and power transmission lines,...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is resuscitating the Burnaby Hospital expansion, a project that had been put on hold because of budget pressures. Infrastructure Minister Bowinn Ma says planning for the redevelopment has resumed and it will n...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney's government tabled a bill Monday to fast-track approvals for major projects and update the Canada Labour Code. Here's what politicians and others are saying about the new legislation: - "A stronger Canada means more...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says he won't change his mind about his decision to eliminate the digital services tax and Canadian content contributions for streamers. Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet asked Carney in the House of Commo...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is urging the British Columbia government not to call an early election until after municipal voting on Oct. 17 that he says deserves the "full, undivided attention" of residents. Premier David Eby told NDP legislato...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says the province remains on track to balance the budget next year after reporting that last year's finances came roughly in line with expectations. The province, in its audited accounts, said Monday it had an $83...

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Avi Lewis said he is not holding all Jews accountable for Israel's policies in Gaza, after some Liberal MPs called comments he made in a social media post irresponsible and "despicable." Lewis posted late Sunday that he would be mar...

Ontario's police watchdog is investigating after a 29-year-old man allegedly opened fire at a constable stationed outside a synagogue in Belleville, Ont., on Sunday night. The resulting shootout left both the suspect and the officer with serious injuri...

VICTORIA - B.C. cabinet minister Lana Popham says she won't run for a sixth term, deepening speculation about a snap election being called. Popham's announcement follows the resignation of Opposition B.C. Conservative leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay on Sun...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. government has filed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence company OpenAI in California over the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., asserting "one telephone call to the RCMP could have prevented the tragedy." Attorney Genera...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is rejecting a claim from her party president that her government is muting its pro-Canada messaging ahead of the separation vote. Smith says she hasn't been neutral and that her United Conservative Party gover...