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Prime Minister Mark Carney looks to reset Canada-China relationship in Beijing
Prime Minister Mark Carney landed in Beijing on Wednesday for the first visit by a Canadian prime minister to China in eight years - part of his government's efforts to rebuild Canada's fractured rela...
Jan 14, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney is officially welcomed to Beijing, China on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
2025 was the third warmest year on record. What does that mean in Canada?
This past year was the third warmest on record and stood on the cusp of surpassing a major climate threshold globally, according to new data from the European climate agency. The Copernicus data indic...
Jan 14, 2026 An aerial crew works on the Dryden Creek fire, an a out-of-control wildfire, just north of Squamish, B.C., on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Tijana Martin
2025 was the third warmest year on record. What does that mean in Canada?
This past year was the third warmest on record and stood on the cusp of surpassing a major climate threshold globally, according to new data from the European climate agency. The Copernicus data indic...
Jan 13, 2026
Fact File: Canadian store's security photo manipulated to show mountain lion break-in
Social media posts this month claimed a mountain lion played with toys and got high on catnip after breaking into a Colorado pet store. In fact, the shop pictured in the post appears to be an Edmonton...
Jan 13, 2026
Coastal First Nations call on Carney to defend the B.C. tanker ban in pipeline talks
PRINCE RUPERT - Coastal First Nations president Marilyn Slett said she called on Prime Minister Mark Carney in a meeting Tuesday to maintain and protect the oil tanker moratorium in his government's p...
Jan 13, 2026
Alberta doctors say leadership lacking amid crisis of overcrowding in hospitals
EDMONTON - Doctors who have been pleading for help as Edmonton hospitals are being overwhelmed by patients say Alberta's health-care leadership is missing in action. Dr. Warren Thirsk, an emergency ro...
Jan 10, 2026
Quebec chemical firm hit with $1.4-million fine over substance discharged in river
GATINEAU - A company that operated a chemical manufacturing plant in western Quebec has been fined $1.35 million for discharging a harmful substance into the Rivire du Livre in 2019. Superior General ...
Jan 09, 2026
Lebanon signs gas exploration deal with international consortium amid economic crisis
BEIRUT (AP) - Lebanon 's government on Friday signed a deal with an international consortium to explore gas in an offshore area bordering Israel. The deal for exploration at the so-called Block 8 off ...
Jan 09, 2026
What Trump's aspiration to conquer Greenland means for Canada
OTTAWA - Canada's closest physical neighbours are in an escalating dispute that risks breaking the military alliance that has protected the nations of the North Atlantic for decades. U.S. President Do...
Jan 08, 2026
Fisheries Department grants authorization for port expansion in Contrecoeur, Que.
MONTRAL - Fisheries and Oceans Canada has granted authorization to the Montreal Port Authority to expand a container port terminal northeast of the city in the habitat of an endangered fish species. T...
Jan 08, 2026
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8:30 - It's been just over a year since the United States slapped its first round of tariffs on Canada, creating uncerta...