Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is set to release its August consumer price index report this morning. Economists polled by Reuters are expecting the report to show prices rose 2.1 per cent from a year ago...

OTTAWA - Liberal John McKay and Conservative Garnett Genuis are slated to appear today at a federal inquiry into foreign interference. Both members of Parliament serve with the Inter-Parliamentary All...

OTTAWA - Members of Parliament will hold an emergency debate in the House of Commons Monday evening on a string of recent deaths of First Nations people during interactions with Canadian police forces...

MONTREAL - Quebec's labour tribunal has stymied the latest negotiation tactic of a union representing most of the province's nurses. Fdration Interprofessionnelle de la sant du Qubec had threatened th...

VANCOUVER - Mayors and other leaders from several British Columbia communities say the provincial and federal governments need to take "immediate action" to tackle mental health and public safety issu...

WINNIPEG - A backbencher with Manitoba's NDP government has been removed from caucus over his link to convicted sex offender Peter Nygard. The caucus chair says it has learned that a business partner ...

MONTREAL - Quebec's Superior Court has authorized a class-action lawsuit involving temporary foreign workers who are suing the federal government over work permits that bind them to an employer. The l...

NEMASKA - Franois Legault has become the first Quebec premier to visit a Cree community that was displaced by a hydroelectric project in the 1970s. Legault was greeted in Nemaska on Sunday by men and ...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the government is making some changes to mortgage rules to help more Canadians to purchase their first home. She says the changes will come into force ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... MPs return to Ottawa for what promises to be a boisterous sitting Members of Parliament are back in Ottawa tod...