Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - A Conservative member of Parliament is questioning why a national suicide-prevention hotline approved by the House of Commons last year still does not exist. MPs from all parties voted in Dec...

OTTAWA - Jan. 1 is going to feel like Groundhog Day for all those paying into the Canada Pension Plan. Like last year, contributions are going up again by more than originally planned, and the reason ...

OTTAWA - Royal Canadian Navy commander Vice-Admiral Craig Baines says the fire that broke out on board HMCS Fredericton last month while the frigate was sailing off the coast of Norway could have been...

Ontario and Quebec are both reporting new COVID-19 case records today, as Canadian provinces explore changing isolation rules to keep health systems afloat amid an unprecedented wave of infections. On...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut is extending its "circuit-breaker'' lockdown as a rise in COVID-19 infections pushes the territory's health-care system to a breaking point. The territory's chief public hea...

OTTAWA - In a renovated shed in his garden, author Yann Martel drafts and redrafts his best sellers. The novelist writes in English, although his first language is French, and his work - including "Li...

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 Dec. 29... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

HALIFAX - Almost five years after Afghanistan war veteran Lionel Desmond killed three family members and himself, an inquiry is expected to draw to a close next month in Nova Scotia with questions sti...

EDMONTON - It was a speech that symbolized Alberta's pandemic politics in 2021: Premier Jason Kenney's boastful, bullhorn-loud, first-out-of-the-gate victory whoop over COVID-19 preceding a crushing h...

Even as some provinces have reported record-high daily COVID-19 case counts, health experts are warning the real infection rate is likely much higher, pointing out that data has been clouded by holida...