MONTREAL - Quebec's leftist sovereigntist party wants to restore affordability through public grocery stores, a wealth tax and raising the minimum wage. Québec solidaire has said it is drawing inspiration from New York City's democratic socialist mayo...

VANCOUVER - As he flops down on an East Vancouver pavement for cuddles and back scratches, Nigel is hardly the picture of a cat with a guilty conscience. But he stands accused of crimes against the neighbourhood - and the ensuing drama has resulted i...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says Canada's ongoing work to secure the return of Ukrainian children abducted by Russian officials shows how Ottawa is trying to work with a range of countries to advance practical, humanitarian goals. In ...

OTTAWA - Nunavik, where Gov. Gen. Mary Simon grew up, is a long way from Ottawa and farther still from Buckingham Palace. That never stopped her mother Nancy May, a unilingual Inuk, from keeping a photo of Queen Elizabeth on prominent display in thei...

TORONTO - Canadian artists Michael Bublé and Alanis Morissette will be among a star-studded lineup of performers at the FIFA World Cup opening ceremony in Toronto in June. FIFA has announced separate opening ceremonies in each of the three host countri...

TORONTO - Infectious disease specialist Dr. Allison McGeer has lived and worked through SARS-1 in 2003, the H1N1 flu pandemic in 2009 and the COVID-19 pandemic, which began in 2020. With the trauma of the COVID pandemic so fresh in people's minds, she ...

OTTAWA - The federal government is proposing giving authority to review interprovincial pipelines and transmission lines, and offshore renewable energy projects, to the Canada Energy Regulator instead of the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada. The prop...

OTTAWA - The federal government is handing hundreds of millions of dollars to Canada Post to keep the money-bleeding mail service afloat for the current fiscal year. A cabinet order gives the beleaguered Crown corporation up to $673 million so it can "...

MONTREAL - A group of Quebec politicians are pitching Montreal as the "logical" choice to headquarter a new multinational defence bank, while downplaying whether Quebec referendum talk could hurt the city's bid. Quebec Economy Minister Bernard Drainvil...

VANCOUVER - In the eyes of the B.C. Supreme Court, the Gallery Show Lounge Strip club in south Vancouver would "present a clear danger" to the public if its liquor licence were restored and it reopened. The club has been on the police radar for years, ...

Multiple post-secondary institutions across Canada say they've been impacted by a cyberattack targeting an education system used by thousands of schools globally. Technology company Instructure said it launched an investigation on April 29 after detect...

OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty says her government has filed a partial judicial review of a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal decision for a child welfare agreement she struck with First Nations in Ontario. That $8.5-billion agreem...

TORONTO - Two Ontario residents are isolating at home in their rural community after disembarking late last month from a cruise ship that is now the site of a deadly hantavirus outbreak. Ontario's chief medical officer of health, Dr. Kieran Moore, said...

OTTAWA - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Friday she was feeling far more confident about the prospects for a new pipeline following a meeting in Ottawa with Prime Minister Mark Carney earlier in the day. "This morning I said 'if' a deal gets signed...

OTTAWA - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Friday that she and Prime Minister Mark Carney are committed to working through the issues between Alberta and Ottawa as separatist sentiment rises in the western province. Smith told reporters she's always...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent in April. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, however, that the figures may fluctuate widely because ...

OTTAWA - Canada's national unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent in April. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): _ Newfoundland and Labrador 10.0 per cent (9.5) _ Prince Edward Island 8.0 per cent...

OTTAWA - A quick look at Canada's April employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.9 per cent (6.7) Employment rate: 60.5 per cent (60.6) Participation rate: 65.0 per cent (64.9) Number unemployed: 1,566,400 ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Canadian consular officials head to Canary Islands to meet hantavirus cruise ship Consular officials are on their way to the Canary Islands to meet with four Canad...

OTTAWA - The number of Canadians connected to a hantavirus outbreak that began on a polar expedition cruise has grown to 10 as federal officials report three more people - two from Alberta and one from Ontario - may have had contact on a flight with so...

ABBOTSFORD - Arnold and Joanne De Jong spent their last night alive surrounded by family, not knowing that three men who had done cleaning work on their property in of Abbotsford, B.C., would later invade their home, rob them and kill them. Four years ...

ST. JOHN'S - At the top of Signal Hill in St. John's, N.L., on Tuesday afternoon, a steady stream of people walked around a rocky cliff and gasped. Some cheered, some took out their phones to capture the moment - a rush of awe as an iceberg floated i...

TORONTO - Former U.S. president Barack Obama is in Toronto today to deliver a keynote speech at a Canadian think tank. The 44th president is set to headline Canada 2020's gala at the Fairmont Royal York. Obama made three official visits to Canada whil...

MONTREAL - For some Quebecers, watching the Montreal Canadiens take to the ice during the Stanley Cup playoffs is more urgent than seeking medical care. Hospital officials in the Montreal area say their emergency rooms generally saw dips in visits duri...

MONTREAL - Québec solidaire, a leftist sovereigntist party struggling in the polls, says it's taking inspiration from New York's democratic socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, ahead of the October provincial election. At its weekend convention in Montreal...

OTTAWA - Canada's economy took an unexpected hit on the job market in April, while unemployment also crept up, raising concerns about the strength of the economy ahead of the Bank of Canada's rate decision next month. Statistics Canada's labour force s...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government is investing up to $1 million on field-testing new technology from a Vancouver company that aims to both predict and prevent lightning that may trigger wildfires. Skyward Wildfire Technologies says it release...

VICTORIA - The school in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., where students were killed in a mass shooting in February will be torn down and rebuilt on a new site. Premier David Eby said Thursday that the decision by the local school board came after it consulted sur...