Category Archives: Canada

LAVAL, Que. - Quebec Premier Franois Legault says there are "serious injuries" after a city bus crashed into a daycare Wednesday morning in a suburb north of Montreal. Public Security Minister Franois...

OTTAWA - Pierre Poilievre says he would honour the health-care increases Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised provinces if his Conservatives form the next government. Poilievre made the pledge t...

WASHINGTON - Canada's defence and economic development ministers are in the U.S. capital this week to remind lawmakers and military contractors about the economic virtues of cross-border collaboration...

MONTREAL - About one million square kilometres of Quebec is covered by boreal forest, roughly 70 per cent of the entire province. In the north, where ecosystems are less likely to have been altered by...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023 ... What we are watchi...

OTTAWA - Federal Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos will ask the provinces today whether or not they intend to accept the new health-care funding deal tabled by the prime minister. Duclos and Mental Hea...

VANCOUVER - Donations are pouring into a Vancouver warehouse for those affected by Monday's devastating earthquake in Turkey, but a volunteer organizer says the country could most benefit from profess...

When Mayor Shane Brienen of Houston, B.C., thinks about the impact of the impending closure of the town's sawmill, he worries not only about the economic fallout. He thinks about the holes that the wo...

YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories government is to release its new budget today, the last before the territorial election set for the fall. The territory's last $2.1-billion budget saw a 2.3 per...

OTTAWA - Yet another global conference in Montreal risks being derailed by Canada's delays in processing visas as well as rejections that critics argue punish those from poorer countries. "It's incred...