OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Lena Diab says changes to the refugee status claim process proposed in Bill C-12 are "better for the applicants" even as multiple organizations are heavily critical of the plan. The government's broad border and immigratio...

WINNIPEG - Former Winnipeg mayor Sam Katz has told a public inquiry he instructed others at city hall to control the rising cost of the city's new police headquarters. The inquiry is examining the city's development of a headquarters for the Winnipeg P...

OTTAWA - The Military Police Complaints Commission has found that an internal investigation into an alleged sexual assault by an air force officer who later took his own life was conducted in a rushed, superficial and biased manner. Its conclusion come...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney will visit Tumbler Ridge, B.C., in the near future, says a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office. The statement says details, including the timing of the visit, are being worked out with community officials...

TORONTO - It's still "too early" to draw conclusions about the cause of the Delta Air Lines plane crash at Toronto's Pearson Airport, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada said Thursday in an update on its investigation as the one-year anniversary ...

TORONTO - Ontario Power Generation has signed a deal with a municipality east of Toronto to build a new, large nuclear reactor. Energy Minister Stephen Lecce says the proposed nuclear project in Port Hope, Ont., would create 1,700 jobs locally and mor...

TUMBLER RIDGE - Details are beginning to emerge about the people killed and injured in the mass shooting at a high school and a home in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. Here's what is known so far: Kylie Smith, 12 Multiple media reports have identified Kylie as amo...

TORONTO - Ontario is giving colleges and universities billions in new funding, while lifting a seven-year tuition fee freeze and cutting back on the amount of student assistance grants. The moves are in response to a post-secondary financial crisis, fo...

Advocates and experts are warning about the danger of vilifying an entire demographic based on the actions of one transgender person in the wake of the school shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. Their comments come after an independent provincial legislato...

WASHINGTON (AP) - About 6 in 10 U.S. adults say President Donald Trump has "gone too far" in sending federal immigration agents into American cities, according to a new AP-NORC poll that suggests political independents are increasingly uncomfortable wi...

OTTAWA - Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu says her department needs more information from air carriers and unions to settle recent allegations of unpaid work in the airline sector. On Thursday, the federal government published the initial findings of a probe ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Tumbler Ridge 'one big family,' mayor tells vigil A memorial of flowers, lights and stuffed animals grows in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., as the community grapples with th...

TUMBLER RIDGE - A memorial of flowers, lights and stuffed animals grows in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., as the community grapples with the fallout of a mass shooting that killed nine people, mostly children, along with the 18-year-old shooter who police say to...

TUMBLER RIDGE - Tumbler Ridge in the remote Peace region of northeast British Columbia was once best known as a coal mining boom town that was built from scratch in the 1980s, then faced challenges from shifts in its economic fortunes. Now it is grappl...

TABER - The father of a student killed in a school shooting in southern Alberta almost 27 years ago says forgiveness was at the heart of how he tackled the tragedy. 
 Retired reverend Dale Lang lost his 17-year-old son, Jason, after the teen was shot b...

TORONTO - The sexual assault trial of Canadian auto parts magnate Frank Stronach has begun in Toronto after more than a week of delay. The judge-alone trial was initially scheduled to begin early last week but Stronach's lawyer asked for more time to p...

OTTAWA - A man from the Dominican Republic and a man from the United States have been charged with conspiring to smuggle foreign nationals into the United States via the Canada-U.S. border. The U.S. Department of Justice says in a press release that 27...

QUÉBEC - A retired Superior Court judge who investigated a text message scandal that helped bring down former Quebec Liberal leader Pablo Rodriguez has reached few firm conclusions. Jacques R. Fournier says it's impossible to say whether the messages, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted Wednesday to slap back President Donald Trump's tariffs on Canada, a rare if largely symbolic rebuke of the White House agenda as Republicans joined Democrats over the objections of GOP leadership. The ta...

LETHBRIDGE - An Alberta judge sentenced a 13-year-old boy Wednesday to three years in an intense rehabilitation program for trying to stab his younger brother to death. The attacker was 12 when he repeatedly stabbed the seven-year-old in the family's L...

CALGARY - Countries that show the most backbone are the ones best able to withstand belligerent U.S. trade policy, said a former U.S. State Department official who expressed optimism the Canada-U.S.-Mexico trade agreement will be renewed. Edward Fishm...

VICTORIA - The three official parties in British Columbia's provincial legislature have announced the cancellation of Thursday's "traditional" throne speech because of the mass shooting that claimed nine lives in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. The cancellation co...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump took aim at Canada Wednesday evening as the U.S. House of Representatives voted against his tariffs on America's northern neighbour - a largely symbolic move that shows some wavering Republican support for the presid...

TORONTO - As the federal and provincial governments pledge support for the people of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., a psychologist specializing in trauma says mental health services will be needed beyond the immediate aftermath of Tuesday's mass shooting. McMas...

OTTAWA - The main campus of the new Inuit Nunangat University will be located in Arviat, Nunavut, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami president Natan Obed announced Wednesday. The school also moved a step closer to being built with the announcement of a $50 millio...

Ryan Profid was enjoying a karaoke night at a resort near Cayo Coco in Cuba when he was approached by a staff member who had some bad news. They told him his vacation was over and he'd have to fly home the next day. Hours later, a disappointed Profid e...

CHARLOTTETOWN - Prince Edward Island's Opposition leader is calling for swift government action after an independent report found that the province did not have an adequate system to track cases of staff sexual misconduct. Policies and procedures need ...

TORONTO - École Polytechnique shooting survivor Nathalie Provost says it took her several weeks to return to the site of the Montreal massacre, but doing so allowed her to reclaim her life and create a sense of safety again. She was shot in the leg, f...

The following timeline of Tuesday's shootings in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., is based on information provided by RCMP, B.C. government officials and BC Emergency Health Services. Times are Mountain Time. Feb. 10, 2026, 2:20 p.m.: Tumbler Ridge RCMP receive a ...

OTTAWA - NATO launched its promised new initiative in the Arctic on Wednesday, and Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Canada wants the operation made permanent. "We're seeing Operation Arctic Sentry taking shape within the NATO context. We would...

VICTORIA - In tiny towns like Tumbler Ridge, B.C., police are more than law enforcers, says former RCMP officer turned politician Elenore Sturko. Relationships between community members and RCMP members in such small, rural and remote communities are g...

MONTREAL - Quebec's professional order of physicians is welcoming a provincial bill that would give more powers to professions like nurses and midwives, but says it wants to see more details in the legislation, including specific training requirements....

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has cancelled his plans to travel to Halifax and Munich, Germany, following a deadly school shooting in British Columbia. Carney was to spend Wednesday afternoon in Halifax to announce the defence industrial strategy...

OTTAWA - Parliamentarians from all parties came together Wednesday to mark National Kindness Week - but the message is taking on a different meaning after the mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. National Kindness Week, which runs from Feb. 15 to 21, h...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday he has heard from a number of world leaders offering condolences in the wake of Tuesday's deadly mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. Police continue to investigate two attacks that left 9 people, incl...

MANIWAKI - A father fatally shot his two children before killing himself in the First Nation community of Kitigan Zibi, in Quebec's western region, provincial police said Wednesday. Provincial police said officers with the Kitigan Zibi Police Service w...

TORONTO - Canada's Big Six banks have all put their support behind the proposed international Defence, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB). BMO confirmed Wednesday it had joined the project, while RBC, CIBC, Scotiabank, TD and National Bank had already...

MONTRÉAL - The Quebec government is delaying the rollout of its new French curriculum in elementary and secondary schools by one year to September 2027, following criticism that the Education Department was moving too quickly. Education Minister Sonia ...

OTTAWA - Mass shootings in Canada - including an April 2020 rampage in Nova Scotia - have helped to spur changes to gun laws in recent decades. Few details were available Wednesday on the type of firearm used in Tuesday's shootings in Tumbler Ridge, B....

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says flags on federal buildings will be flown at half-mast for seven days to honour the victims of Tuesday's mass shooting in B.C. Carney said today he has heard from world leaders offering condolences, including Kin...

TUMBLER RIDGE - The person behind one of British Columbia's worst mass killings has been identified as an 18-year-old who killed family members at home, then gunned down students randomly at a school before firing at police and killing herself as offic...

Eight people, including a suspect, are dead after a shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in B.C.'s Peace region on Tuesday afternoon. Police say two other people were found dead at a home in the community, while about two dozen were hurt at the s...

RCMP say officers had a history of visiting the home of Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old responsible for Tuesday's mass shooting at a high school and a residence in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. They say the woman killed her mother and 11-year-old stepbroth...

OTTAWA - The number of vehicles stolen in Canada fell sharply last year but there were still almost 47,000 such thefts reported and more than a third of those were never recovered, says a new report released Wednesday. The analysis by Équité Associatio...

TUMBLER RIDGE - RCMP say nine people were killed in shootings Tuesday in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., including the lone suspect who died by suicide. Five of the victims were under 13 years old. Mounties also changed the death toll from 10, saying they origina...