Canada

Some of the best-known Canadian UFO sightings over the years

OTTAWA - Some of the best-known Canadian cases of unusual sightings in the sky: May 20, 1967, near Falcon Lake, Man.: Stefan Michalak, who claimed to have encountered a landed UFO while prospecting fo...

Jul 18, 2025

Pair of rare, multicoloured lobsters new summer stars of Dartmouth ocean centre

DARTMOUTH - Burrowing under seaweed and crawling around a large open-top tank at an ocean centre in Dartmouth, N.S., are two beady-eyed alien-like creatures named Moonmist and Bingo. One of them is ha...

Jul 18, 2025

Robust federal collection, analysis of UFO data could dispel misinformation: report

OTTAWA - Systematic government collection and analysis of data about mysterious sightings in the sky could help Canada better prepare for incidents like the sudden appearance of several high-altitude ...

Jul 18, 2025

How Vancouver's urban orcas create connections and community among followers

VANCOUVER - Chatchawan Jaksuwong says he used to feel empty when he looked at the ocean. But after encounters with whales in the urban waters of Vancouver the photographer now feels a deep sense of co...

Jul 18, 2025

CP NewsAlert: B.C. Health Ministry restores drug funding for girl with rare disease

VICTORIA - British Columbia's Health Minister Josie Osborne says she has reinstated funding for nine-year-old Charleigh Pollock's drug coverage. The Vancouver Island girl suffers from Batten disease, ...

Jul 17, 2025

CP NewsAlert: Jasper fire report says Alberta government complicated response

JASPER - A report into a wildfire that devastated the Rocky Mountain resort town of Jasper says crews did their best but command and control was hampered by the Alberta government. The report was comm...

Jul 17, 2025

Ottawa army unit head removed as part of social media misconduct probe

OTTAWA - The head of an Ottawa-based Canadian Army regiment has been temporarily removed as part of an investigation into alleged online behaviour that the commander of the army says disgraced the mil...

Jul 17, 2025

Timeline of 4 women slain in Winnipeg, searching landfills for their remains

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government said Thursday that the search of a landfill for the remains of two slain First Nations women has concluded and that there would soon be a new search at a different s...

Jul 17, 2025

Major projects: How Bill C-5 works and why Indigenous leaders are so concerned

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney held a meeting with hundreds of First Nations chiefs Thursday, amid widespread skepticism and frustration over his controversial major-projects legislation. Bill C-...

Jul 17, 2025

CP NewsAlert: Search of Manitoba landfill for more remains of slain women concludes

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government says a search of a Winnipeg-area landfill for the remains of two First Nations women killed in 2022 has finished. The province began searching the Prairie Green Land...

Jul 17, 2025