WASHINGTON - Apple is changing its Maps app to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America" for American users after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an order to change the name of the Great Lake. Google Maps updated its service to identify the body of wate...

OTTAWA - MP Lori Idlout contravened the House of Commons conflict of interest code, Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein announced today. The commissioner's office reports that Idlout last year claimed reimbursement for ...

VICTORIA - A top American military commander today suggested the United States is as likely to launch an attack on Mars as it is to invade Canada. Admiral Samuel Paparo, the head of U.S. Pacific Command, was asked by a reporter at a news conference in ...

VANCOUVER - Another 30 lawsuits are being filed against artificial intelligence company OpenAI and founder Sam Altman in relation to the deadly mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. Vancouver-based law firm Rice Parson Leoni and Elliott says in a statem...

MONTREAL - Teams of workers will be spreading sweet-smelling baits containing a rabies vaccine through Montreal's parks in the coming weeks in the hopes of heading off an outbreak of the deadly disease. The provincial environment department said last m...

TORONTO - Greg Rennie says his bipolar depression was an eight out of 10 when he went in for his first ketamine infusion in April 2025. He ranked it a zero out of 10 right afterward. Rennie, who has had bipolar depression for almost 30 years, was one...

MONTREAL - Élections Québec says it is too late to make changes to the unilingual French documents it is mailing to voters ahead of the election. The provincial elections authority was reacting to comments made by Coalition Avenir Québec Leader Christi...

An Ontario university student has been arrested in a counter-intelligence investigation in the United States after allegedly taking photos at airports in Toronto and Chicago at the request of someone he believed to be a Chinese government official. In ...

Hilroy has apologized for leaving Newfoundland and Cape Breton off the Canadian map on its glossy notebooks, after the mistake led to backlash online. Hilroy's pastel-coloured paper exercise books are well known across the country for the map of Canada...

OTTAWA - The federal government is extending the suspension of federal fuel excise taxes until the new year to help Canadians feeling the pressure from higher energy costs caused by instability in the Middle East. "For Canada, it means practical relief...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Some missing tourists make contact as Nepal flood death toll tops 1,100 Some tourists previously reported missing in Nepal have made contact with authorities, off...

Neeral Patel sent well-wishes to her cousin on his birthday last Wednesday, but she never heard back. Her cousin Ishan Patel was in Nepal at the time, not far from the border with China, where a devastating flash flood ripped through the valley that sa...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada held its benchmark interest rate steady again on Wednesday as new U.S. tariffs and the ongoing war in Iran cloud the central bank's outlook. The Bank of Canada's policy rate remains at 2.25 per cent after a seventh straight ...

British Columbia legislator Ian Paton said RCMP have asked to interview him on Wednesday, and expects them to ask about allegedly being offered a job to give up his seat so Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay could run. Paton, who quit the Conserva...

Errors including botched currency conversions led the British Columbia government to overstate its forecasted natural gas revenues by about $1.46 billion over five fiscal years, officials confirmed on Tuesday. Energy Minister Adrian Dix said the most s...

MONTREAL - A former Montreal priest who was found guilty in 2019 of sexually abusing two boys is facing charges of possessing and accessing child sexual abuse material. Brian Boucher's lawyer appeared in a Montreal courtroom today on his behalf, and th...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne says Russia's presence at a G20 meeting hosted by the United States has made many countries uncomfortable. The United States invited Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov to attend the Tuesday mee...

TORONTO - Canada's chief public health officer is urging parents to check that routine childhood vaccinations are up-to-date as kids head back to school. In an interview on Tuesday, Dr. Joss Reimer said measles is still spreading, while vaccine misinf...

Geologist John Joseph Clague said when he first heard that a floating island, bigger than a football field, had been spotted on a lake in British Columbia's northern Interior, he dismissed it as an "AI stunt." But Clague - a professor of earth sciences...

MONTREAL - A group representing anglophones in Quebec is calling on the provincial elections authority to reverse its decision to only send out voter information in French. Élections Québec said Tuesday that printed voter cards will only be available ...

OTTAWA - U.S. negotiators were pushing in trade talks last month for concessions from Canada that would have caused key sectors like the automotive industry to either become U.S. subsidiaries or be "wiped out" entirely, Prime Minister Mark Carney said ...

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is standing behind a controversial social media post by U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth about a Canadian cadet program as the Trump administration continues to denigrate Canada's armed forces. Hegseth on Monday posted an i...

GANDER - U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra will be among the dignitaries heading to central Newfoundland this month to mark the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The community of Gander has held a commemoration event every year sin...

WASHINGTON - Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is set to introduce legislation to stop U.S. President Donald Trump's latest tariffs as Democrats ramp up their affordability messaging ahead of midterm elections. The new bill backed by the Democrat fr...

OTTAWA - Saskatchewan Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall officially resigned from the House of Commons on Monday, making her the 10th MP to step down this year. Wagantall announced in June that she would resign at the end of August. She said she original...

OTTAWA - In the final hours of byelection voting on Monday, Conservative candidate Jim Syrbos made one last appeal to the people of Beaches-East York: send a clear message to Ottawa and to Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government. But that was n...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... 'A great time to be a Liberal': Carney government sweeps trio of byelections Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberals swept a trio of federal byelections Monday, incl...

MONTREAL - On a typical summer day at Schwartz's Deli, in Montreal, there's a lineup at the door as tourists and locals wait to get their smoked-meat sandwich. But now, something has changed. For decades, customers would be able to order a can of Cott...