MONTREAL - A Quebec coroner is recommending strengthened measures to protect pedestrian safety after the hit-and-run death of a seven-year-old Ukrainian refugee in 2022. Coroner Éric Lépine said in a recent report that the girl's death was accidental, ...

VICTORIA - The Exxon Valdez disaster happened more than 36 years ago off Alaska's coast, but the catastrophic oil spill still looms over plans for a pipeline from Alberta to the northern British Columbia coast. Rick Steiner, a former academic who was ...

OTTAWA - The head of the United Nations' HIV/AIDS program is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to reverse his government's planned cuts to foreign aid and global health funding. "My message to Prime Minister Carney, to Canada, and to all the other dono...

It has been a roller-coaster of emotions for Toronto's Paul Chow, who has gone from worry to sadness, distress and anger as he watched the place he was born and lived for more than 30 years burn.

CRANBROOK - An investigation is underway after multiple cars of a Canadian Pacific Kansas City train derailed about 16 kilometres east of Cranbrook, B.C. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says a team of investigators has been sent to the scene....

MONTREAL - Quebec's major labour unions marched in downtown Montreal Saturday, their members expressing anger over the Quebec government's legislative agenda which includes a number of measures aimed at the labour movement. Tens of thousands of Quebece...

TORONTO - Evacuees from two Toronto highrises are without a timeline for return as firefighters try to battle a smouldering fire caught between the buildings. Officials say firefighters still don't have eyes on the fire burning since Thursday and thoug...

QUÉBEC - The Quebec Liberal Party says a retired judge hired to investigate allegations of cash payments during the party's leadership race will have to submit a report by the end of January 2026. The party's executive signed off on the independent inv...

OTTAWA - Canada maintains a low level of civilian oversight of the military due to Parliament's rigid party discipline, according to a new book that compares it with fourteen other democracies. That conclusion was arrived at after a 10-year study condu...

OTTAWA - The five NDP leadership candidates all agree on the need to revitalize the party's grassroots and build up riding associations as the party recovers from its near-wipeout in the April election. Beyond that, the contenders are offering signific...

BURNABY - The BC General Employees Union says dairy milk testers in the province have started job action. The union says it represents dairy production technicians employed by Lactanet, and they began a strike on Tuesday following 20 months of contract...

EDMONTON - Alberta's watershed pipeline deal with Ottawa wasn't front and centre Friday when Premier Danielle Smith spoke with United Conservative Party faithful at their annual convention. Smith took the stage in Edmonton for the first of many address...

OTTAWA - Canada will soon have a new operations centre to help co-ordinate countrywide disaster response. Government officials on Friday offered media outlets a tour of the new facility, which is expected to be open next month. For security reasons, jo...

Last week the X platform, formerly Twitter, began its rollout of a new location feature meant to disclose which country account holders post from. It aimed to increase transparency on the platform and help users spot the fake accounts known for spread...

EDMONTON - The petitioner seeking to have an Alberta cabinet minister removed as a legislator says he believes the politician broke election laws by publicizing his voting record. Joshua Eberhart, in a public letter posted to social media, accuses Nall...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba is renewing its call for a national electricity grid that would move more power between provinces and territories and help the province's exports. Premier Wab Kinew says it's a good time to build domestic energy transmission in an e...

SURREY - Police in Delhi say they've arrested the "prime conspirator" behind a series of extortion-linked shootings at a B.C. café, who they say fled to India after being charged with multiple offences in Ontario. As politicians in British Columbia gat...

OTTAWA - Most people who chose medical assistance in dying in 2024 had a cancer diagnosis and were over the age of 70, new data from Health Canada shows. The country's annual report on medical assistance in dying, better known as MAID, shows that more ...

TORONTO - Companies and unions building worker training centres using money from Ontario's embattled Skills Development Fund could soon bypass planning laws, raising "significant concerns" for the province's municipalities and opposition parties. The g...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Charges against the man accused of shooting two National Guard members have been upgraded to first-degree murder after one of the soldiers died, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia announced Friday, while inv...

MONTREAL - Montreal transit workers are set to go on strike again next month amid a prolonged labour dispute. The transit agency's 2,400 maintenance workers say they will refuse overtime hours between Dec. 9 and Jan. 11. The agency says buses and metr...

CALGARY - Analysts at CIBC Capital Markets say they don't expect the private sector to take the lead on a new West Coast oilsands pipeline so long as the British Columbia government and First Nations are opposed. "The requirement to consult with B.C. ...

MONTREAL - The mayor of a Montreal borough says she has ordered an investigation after city workers destroyed a homeless encampment earlier this week. Christine Black says workers were sent to the site in Montréal-Nord to clear away accumulated waste, ...

OTTAWA - The video service that has been providing Canadians with direct coverage of political events since 1992 says a recent CRTC decision puts its operation at risk. "Our equipment is in an imminent state of broadcast failure," CEO Christa Dickenson...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says budget cuts at Global Affairs Canada won't affect the ability of Canadians in trouble abroad to get help from embassies. "I'm confident that these reductions will have no impact on the services on whic...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says an investor can pursue legal action against a mining company on the basis that it did not immediately publicize information about a production setback. In its 8-1 decision Friday, the top court provided guidanc...

REGINA - Saskatchewan's new child-care deal is to see Ottawa spend $1.6 billion over five years to support $10-a-day care, a move early learning educators say brings stability to the sector. The province and Ottawa signed the deal Friday after Premier...

OTTAWA - The federal government ran a budgetary deficit of $16.1 billion for its April-to-September period. The result compared with a deficit of $13.0 billion for the same period a year earlier, according to the Finance Department's monthly fiscal mo...

OTTAWA - The federal government has launched a public registry to keep Canadians in the loop on its growing use of artificial intelligence. The registry lists more than 400 areas where AI is currently being explored, developed, implemented or deployed ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Liberal MPs say party remains united after Guilbeault resigns from cabinet Several Liberal MPs say the party remains united after Culture Minister Steven Guilbeaul...

OTTAWA - Federal Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson said Thursday it's "premature" to draw conclusions about the potential removal or adjustment of the West Coast tanker ban, since no pipeline route has been mapped out to bring oil from ...

OTTAWA - Members of the federal Liberal caucus maintained Friday that their party remains united in the wake of Steven Guilbeault's resignation from cabinet - but NDP MPs say they see signs that B.C. Liberal MPs are under political pressure. Guilbeault...

OTTAWA - Quebec Liberal MP Steven Guilbeault resigned from cabinet on Thursday, after spending all six years he has been a member of Parliament around that table. The final decision was made in the last few days but it was a choice that was months in t...

OTTAWA - Ontario's Economic Development Minister Vic Fedeli knows he has to hustle to secure job-creating developments with defence industry ties for his province - now that Ottawa is poised to move quickly on major military purchases. With the navy lo...

OTTAWA - Canada's economy posted surprisingly strong growth in the third quarter, but economists looking underneath the hood offered a series of caveats that suggest weaker results than the headline figures imply. Statistics Canada said Friday that rea...

WINNIPEG - Tofu-eaters. Misogynists. Criminal. The insults have been flying fast and furious at the Manitoba legislature, where even Tom Lindsey, the Speaker who is in charge of maintaining order, got into it by calling one legislature member "not that...

EDMONTON - Falling oil prices and trade troubles continue to threaten Alberta's finances, but the province's deficit is expected to shrink only slightly. It has been pegged at $6.4 billion, down $40 million from a projected $6.5 billion this summer. Th...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government has tabled new legislation that would introduce broad new restrictions on religious practices in public and private spaces. On Thursday, Secularism Minister Jean-François Roberge said the bill is part of Quebec's decad...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government says it's now projecting an $11.2 billion deficit this fiscal year, still a record but down from a projected $11.6 billion in its last quarterly report. The Ministry of Finance revealed in its second quarterl...

CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA - Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday to grow Alberta's oil exports while also committing to making it a world leader in green energy technology. Here ar...

OTTAWA - Culture Minister Steven Guilbeault resigned from Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet late Thursday to protest his government's new pact with Alberta on a proposed new pipeline. The environmentalist and longtime climate activist was the face o...

OTTAWA - The Court of Appeal for Ontario has ordered a new trial for a man convicted of killing 10-year-old Darla Thurrott in 1989. In a decision issued Thursday, the court concluded there was a miscarriage of justice in the case and set the conviction...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston says he is disappointed with how the privately owned provincial utility responded to a cyberattack earlier this year. The cyberattack struck Nova Scotia Power last April, disrupting some systems at the utility ...

A new pipeline agreement between Alberta and Ottawa could trigger a race to the bottom on Canada's climate policies, advocates said Thursday, as they warned the deal would invite other provinces to make copycat demands. While Thursday's deal saw Albe...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's opposition parties are criticizing the government for failing to immediately apologize to Mi'kmaq and African Nova Scotian communities for the province's history of environmental racism, more than a year after a panel of experts...