Canada

Provinces have different measles vaccine schedules. Is it time to harmonize them?

TORONTO - Moving from Ontario to New Brunswick didn't just mean Jade Medeiros had to navigate a new province with two babies, she also had to figure out a new vaccination program. When her family move...

Aug 19, 2025

In the news today: Talks with Air Canada resume, union says

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Talks with Air Canada resume, union says There's hope today that a deal to end a strike by Air Canada's flight...

Aug 19, 2025

Canadian defence firm to make ballistic steel through Swedish partnership

OTTAWA - Canadian defence manufacturer Roshel is partnering with a Swedish steel company so it can produce ballistic-protection steel domestically for the first time. Roshel, which makes armoured vehi...

Aug 19, 2025

'Part of me is gone': Abrupt end for Fraser Downs track a blow to B.C. horse racing

Kristina Rennich started working as a groom at the Fraser Downs racetrack, formerly known as Cloverdale Raceway, when she decided to turn her passion for horses into a career at the age of 12. Rennich...

Aug 19, 2025

Poilievre's byelection win sets the table for his return to Parliament this fall

OTTAWA - After a summer of rodeos, dinosaurs and door-knocking, Pierre Poilievre is now officially heading back to Ottawa as a Conservative member of Parliament for Alberta. The Tory leader will repre...

Aug 19, 2025

Talks resume with Air Canada, flight attendants union says, after airline reached out

There's hope today a deal to end a strike by Air Canada's flight attendants could be reached at the bargaining table, following word from their union that both sides met for meetings last night. On Mo...

Aug 19, 2025

Sun Youth co-founder Sid Stevens dies at 85 after seven decades of community service

MONTREAL - Sid Stevens, who co-founded well-known Montreal-based community organization Sun Youth, has died at age 85. The organization said Stevens died Sunday surrounded by loved ones. An obituary o...

Aug 18, 2025

Quebec union leaders say workers could face same fate as Air Canada flight attendants

MONTREAL - The presidents of two major Quebec unions fear workers in the province could soon face the same treatment as striking Air Canada flight attendants under a provincial law passed in May. The ...

Aug 18, 2025

Lawyers for alleged B.C. hijacker get more time to prepare bail application

RICHMOND - The man accused of hijacking a plane and triggering a security scare at Vancouver International Airport last month appeared briefly at a provincial court in Richmond, B.C., where his lawyer...

Aug 18, 2025

Indigenous leaders on Trans Mountain lessons as Building Canada Act moves forward

OTTAWA - Two former Indigenous leaders on both sides of the debate over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion say the federal government can't ignore First Nations on future infrastructure projects it...

Aug 18, 2025