Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - Environmental experts are praising Montreal's decision to ban some kinds of single-use plastics, but they say Canada is still a long way from being plastic-free despite government promises....

HALIFAX - The representation of Black and female members has risen notably in Nova Scotia's legislature following Tuesday's provincial election, but no one who identifies as Indigenous was elected in ...

MONTREAL - Quebec's minister for the fight against racism is denouncing protesters who he said wore yellow stars at a protest earlier this week against the government's vaccine passport system. People...

MONTREAL - Quebec Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette says the provincial government will set up a special court to hear cases involving sexual and conjugal violence. Jolin-Barrette said in a news r...

BOWDEN, ALBERTA - A man who strangled his wife and cemented her body in a basement wall has again been denied day parole eight months before his statutory release from prison. Allan Shyback was convic...

SAINTE-MARIE-DE-BEAUCE, Que. - A 54-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the shooting of a provincial police officer during a traffic stop Wednesday morning south of Quebec City. The susp...

OTTAWA - Canadian Armed Forces assets and personnel have arrived on the ground in Afghanistan to co-ordinate at the tactical level with the United States and other allied partners, Prime Minister Just...

Crews are making progress against several destructive wildfires in British Columbia even as the latest statistics show the total number of fires in the province is edging toward 300 again. Data from t...

MONTREAL - A man facing accusations of attempting to murder a Montreal police officer and murdering a cellmate made a brief appearance in court today. Ali Ngarukiye appeared by videoconference at the ...

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 Aug. 19, 2021 ... What we are watching in Cana...