Canada

AFN votes on way forward after $47.8 billion child welfare reform deal is defeated

OTTAWA - First Nations chiefs have voted in favour of a new negotiation process to reform the child welfare system after a $47.8-billion deal with Canada was defeated Thursday evening at an Assembly o...

Oct 18, 2024

Most Liberal MPs support Trudeau as leader: Freeland

OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says she is "absolutely confident" the majority of Liberal MPs still support Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as leader. Her comments come ahead of what p...

Oct 18, 2024

Defence minister announces nearly $65 million in aid to Ukraine

OTTAWA - National Defence Minister Bill Blair says Canada is sending $64.8 million in military aid to Ukraine. Blair made the announcement at a NATO defence ministers' meeting in Brussels where Ukrain...

Oct 18, 2024

House committee to summon RCMP, ministers over allegations of Indian interference

OTTAWA - The head of the RCMP and Canada's ministers of foreign affairs and public safety will be summoned to testify at a House of Commons committee about the bombshell allegations made this week abo...

Oct 18, 2024

Manitoba second province to sign onto federal school food deal

WINNIPEG - The federal and Manitoba governments have signed a deal to expand food programs. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government set aside $1 billion over five years in the last budget t...

Oct 18, 2024

Tobacco settlement will not protect future generations from addiction: advocates

The Canadian Cancer Society says a proposed settlement that may see tobacco companies pay out billions of dollars would do little to prevent future generations from becoming addicted to smoking. More ...

Oct 18, 2024

Quebec nurses union votes in favour of new collective agreement

MONTREAL - Quebec's largest nurses union has reached a deal with the provincial government more than a year and a half after their collective agreement expired in March 2023. Fdration interprofessionn...

Oct 18, 2024

In the news today: Testy B.C. election campaign reaches final day

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Testy B.C. election campaign reaches final day British Columbia's election campaign enters its final day in wh...

Oct 18, 2024

Housing, health, and plastic straws: Here's how B.C. politicians are wooing voters

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's political party leaders have spent the 28-day provincial election campaign wooing voters with promises on critical issues including health care, housing, the cost of liv...

Oct 18, 2024

Testy B.C. election campaign sees leaders attacking each other more than policy

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's election campaign enters its final day in what is viewed as a too-close-to-call contest where David Eby's New Democrats and the B.C. Conservatives led by John Rustad deb...

Oct 18, 2024