Category Archives: Canada
Montreal Victoire visit city hall to sign golden book after Walter Cup victory
MONTREAL - After a challenging six-month season, the Montreal Victoire are taking a break to celebrate their Professional Women's Hockey League championship win on home ground. At an event at Montreal...
May 26, 2026
Inclusion groups sign open letter calling on Ottawa to halt MAID for mental illness
OTTAWA - Ninety disability advocacy and mental health organizations have signed an open letter urging the federal Liberals to permanently exclude people with mental illness from eligibility for medica...
May 26, 2026
Manitoba premier calls on Alberta to pause its fall separation vote for 'year or two'
KANANASKIS - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew urged Tuesday for Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to pause her fall separation referendum. Kinew, speaking directly to Smith at the annual meeting of western and...
May 26, 2026
In the news today: Tumbler Ridge memo, Western premiers meeting ends, Stratford adieu
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Memo warned PM of public anxiety about mental health, firearms after B.C. shootings Three days after the Febr...
May 26, 2026
Memo warned PM of public anxiety about mental health, firearms after B.C. shootings
OTTAWA - Three days after the February mass shooting in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., government officials warned Prime Minister Mark Carney that online sentiment was shifting from collective grief toward "eme...
May 26, 2026
South Korean submarine in B.C. is floor model in sales pitch to supply Canada's fleet
VICTORIA - The flagship of South Korea's submarine fleet is docked in British Columbia where it's serving as a floating floor model in the Asian nation's pitch for Canada to buy 12 like it. The crew o...
May 25, 2026
Anand says Israel's 'mistreatment' of Canadians in flotilla violated UN treaty
OTTAWA - Israel's mistreatment of Canadians participating in a flotilla trying to reach Gaza violated the Vienna Convention, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Monday. In a social media post, A...
May 25, 2026
Former federal cabinet member Navdeep Bains enters Ontario Liberal leadership race
TORONTO - Former federal cabinet member Navdeep Bains has entered the Ontario Liberal leadership race. Bains worked as a science and industry minister in Justin Trudeau's government before leaving pol...
May 25, 2026
Vancouver says camping overnight in parks will still be allowed during World Cup
VANCOUVER - The City of Vancouver has issued a human rights plan for the FIFA World Cup that begins next month, saying people who are homeless will still be able to shelter in parks overnight, but str...
May 25, 2026
Pollen may pinpoint the last location to U.S. of woman whose body found off Vancouver
VANCOUVER - Tiny specs of pollen have helped Vancouver police narrow down a last-known location to the Seattle and Portland area of a woman whose body was found floating off the city's waterfront. It'...
May 25, 2026