Category Archives: Canada

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Trudeau to announce massive drop in immigration targets: official Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to...

WINNIPEG - A sentencing hearing for a Manitoba man who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the killings of his common-law partner and their two young children is set to begin Thursday. Trevis Mc...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce a major drop in the number of new permanent residents Canada will accept in 2025. As first reported by The National Post, the government'...

MONTREAL - An investigation into a climate of fear at a Montreal primary school has reignited a debate about secularism in Quebec's education system, with the provincial government pledging to conside...

TORONTO - A new report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information says 83 per cent of adults in this country have a regular primary-care provider, but that still leaves 5.4 million adults withou...

EDMONTON - The federal government says Alberta, Ontario and Saskatchewan haven't formally responded to an offer of funding to tackle homelessness. But Alberta's minister in charge of the file says the...

MONTREAL - Quebec's Court of Appeal has upheld a landmark 2022 decision that found a law permitting random traffic stops by police led to racial profiling. The province's high court agreed with a Supe...

Researchers out of Alaska say some polar bears in the Arctic now face a greater risk of contracting several pathogens that weren't a threat to the animals decades ago. The study, published in the peer...

WINNIPEG - The effort to find the remains of two slain First Nations women in a landfill is on track and excavation in the target area is set to start in early December, Premier Wab Kinew said Wednesd...

MONTREAL - Montreal Mayor Valrie Plante says she will quit municipal politics after serving the final year of her second term, which comes to an end in November 2025. Known for her trademark laugh and...