Category Archives: Canada

CP NewsAlert: Portuguese police say two Canadians dead in Lisbon streetcar crash
Police say two Canadians are among the 16 dead in Lisbon after a streetcar derailed in the Portuguese capital on Wednesday, The Associated Press reports. More coming. The Canadian Press
Sep 05, 2025

Statistics Canada to release August labour force survey today
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada will release its latest reading of the country's job market this morning. The agency is set to release its labour force survey for August. A Reuters poll of economists headi...
Sep 05, 2025

G7 speakers, officials gathering in capital region today
OTTAWA - Canada is hosting U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson and other officials from G7 countries and Ukraine in the Ottawa area today. Speaker of the House of Commons Francis Scarpaleggia will be in m...
Sep 05, 2025

Carney to make announcement in GTA after wrapping up cabinet retreat
TORONTO - Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to make an announcement in the Greater Toronto Area today after meeting with his cabinet for two days to prepare for the return of Parliament. Carney's...
Sep 05, 2025

BC Wildfire Service says civilian drone hit firefighting plane
KAMLOOPS - The BC Wildfire Service says police are investigating after one of its firefighting aircraft was struck by a civilian drone that was being illegally flown in restricted airspace. It says th...
Sep 04, 2025

Officials, Indigenous leaders respond to mass stabbing on Manitoba First Nation
WINNIPEG - A man killed his sister and wounded several others in a mass stabbing on the Hollow Water First Nation in Manitoba on Thursday. RCMP said Tyrone Simard, 26, then fled in a stolen vehicle an...
Sep 04, 2025

Timeline of mass stabbing on Manitoba First Nation, attacker dies in crash
WINNIPEG - RCMP say a man killed his sister and wounded several others Thursday in a stabbing rampage on a Manitoba First Nation. He then fled and was killed in a highway crash with a Mountie who was ...
Sep 04, 2025

CP NewsAlert: Prime Minister Mark Carney to speak at opening night of Toronto International Film Festival
TORONTO - Prime Minister Mark Carney is at the opening of the Toronto International Film Festival, set to speak ahead of a screening of "John Candy: I Like Me," a documentary about the Canadian comedy...
Sep 04, 2025

Canadian Armed Forces member deployed in Latvia is missing, says DND
OTTAWA - A Canadian Armed Forces member deployed in Latvia has been reported missing since Tuesday, and the Department of National Defence says an investigation and search efforts are ongoing. More co...
Sep 04, 2025

Bondi says human trafficking across the border with Canada is getting worse
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi says human smuggling across the border with Canada is getting worse - a week after Canadian justice officials discussed shared priorities with her during a meeting in W...
Sep 04, 2025