OTTAWA - The head of the world's major funding mechanism for tackling infectious diseases says the Carney government's focus on leveraging private capital for aid will have only a limited impact on the world's most vulnerable people. Peter Sands, execu...

VANCOUVER - University of British Columbia alumna Jessica Meir has given current students a look at her office - as an astronaut in the orbiting International Space Station. Meir is the commander of NASA's SpaceX Crew-12 mission to the station, where ...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada is beginning its deliberations about a Quebec secularism law after hearings on the controversial legislation wrapped up. The 2019 Quebec law bans some public sector workers from wearing religious symbols on the job....

VICTORIA - British Columbia Conservative MLA Hon Chan has been charged with assault, assault by choking and uttering threats in a case of alleged intimate partner violence, prompting his removal from the party caucus. The BC Prosecution Service said in...

VANCOUVER - RCMP in British Columbia say they have foiled an operation to smuggle methamphetamine to Melbourne, Australia, hidden in jars of pickles. The Mounties say the investigation was carried out with the help of Australian Federal Police and Cana...

VANCOUVER - The mother of Tumbler Ridge, B.C., shooting victim Maya Gebala says Ultimate Fighting Championship president Dana White has offered to pay for her daughter to be treated in California. Cia Edmonds says 12-year-old Gebala, who suffered serio...

OTTAWA - The federal government is proposing a $1.7-billion fund to help provinces and territories lower the cost of homebuilding. The federal funding is meant to help provinces reduce development fees or other levies on new housing to speed up the pac...

OTTAWA - A senior official at the Bank of Canada says the central bank is reconsidering how it thinks and talks about inflation as it prepares to review its mandate later this year. Bank of Canada senior deputy governor Carolyn Rogers was in Brandon, M...

OTTAWA - New Democrats are set to debate up to 70 policy proposals at their convention in Winnipeg this weekend on a host of issues, including clean energy, electoral reform and the party's own political strategy. They include proposals to "vigorously ...

OTTAWA - Canada might join efforts to ensure ships can move freely through the Strait of Hormuz if there is a ceasefire in the Persian Gulf, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Thursday. "There are conversations with our NATO partners - some NATO partne...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is proposing new legislation to strengthen election integrity by banning digital deepfakes of candidates, cracking down on unduly long ballots and protecting nomination and leadership contests. The bill, introduced on Th...

OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty announced on Thursday a $738.9-million funding package for First Nations health care, governance and emergency management. She is earmarking $55.6 million to build up community preparedness and eme...

OTTAWA - The public servant leading the transition away from the federal government's error-prone Phoenix pay system says he's stepping down because the team no longer needs him. Alex Benay, associate deputy minister at Public Services and Procurement ...

MONTREAL - A man who admitted to shooting the gun that killed a 15-year-old girl in Montreal in 2021 was found guilty by a jury on Thursday of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder, while his co-accused was acquitted of all charges. W...

OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Canada and other departments are failing to uphold their own Indigenous procurement strategy and may be allowing contractors to use shell companies to access contracts reserved for Indigenous businesses, says the federal pr...

OTTAWA - For the first time since the end of the Cold War, Canada is spending roughly two per cent of its GDP on national defence - a key NATO alliance benchmark Ottawa previously failed to meet. NATO's annual report, released Thursday, contains estima...

MONTREAL - The chief executive of Air Canada has apologized for not being able to express himself adequately in French after releasing a video message of condolence on the deadly plane crash in New York on Sunday. Michael Rousseau has been criticized f...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Enbridge to fund policing of Line 5 reroute Enbridge has agreed to funnel money to U.S. law enforcement in anticipation of protests against its Line 5 pipeline rer...

Enbridge has agreed to funnel money to U.S. law enforcement in anticipation of protests against its Line 5 pipeline reroute project, a move that has raised concerns about the depth of the company's influence in policing issues. The Calgary-based compa...

Representatives from all three Canadian territories say the need to improve their aging electricity grids has reached a critical level requiring billions of dollars from the federal government to update, and in some cases, keep the lights on. Yukon's e...

MONTREAL - Passengers injured in the fatal collision at the LaGuardia Airport earlier this week have various legal options, say aviation law experts, and could file litigation in either the U.S. or Canada. Canadian air passenger rights advocate Gabor L...

VICTORIA - The companies behind the Coastal GasLink pipeline and the massive LNG Canada facility in Kitimat, B.C., have signed agreements that bring both of their second phases closer to reality. TC Energy says the agreement to establish a "comprehensi...

CALGARY - The commander of the Canadian Army told a defence industry conference Wednesday that the Forces will be forging ahead with purchases and investments as the country works toward modernization. In the 2025 federal budget, $81.8 billion in new s...

BURLINGTON - A Quebec man charged with allegedly participating in a network that defrauded seniors in more than 40 U.S. states has appeared in Vermont district court. U.S. officials say Jimmy Ylimaki, 36, was arrested in Nicaragua and sent to Vermont, ...

Multiple social media posts this week paid tribute to the two pilots who died in a collision between an Air Canada plane and a firefighting truck at New York's LaGuardia Airport. But in some of the posts, photos purporting to show one of the pilots wer...

OTTAWA - A First Nations group is calling on the federal auditor general to investigate the Canadian Human Rights Commission, arguing its delay in hearing a case about funding for on-reserve fire services is resulting in unnecessary death. On Monday, a...

VICTORIA - Police in Victoria are asking pro-Palestine protesters to stop marching on public roads on their way to and from the legislature building, citing the drain on police resources from attending the event 126 times in a row. The Victoria Police ...

CALGARY - Alberta and Ottawa have reached an "agreement-in-principle" that puts the province in control of regulating its methane emissions, with final rules expected by the end of this year. The federal and provincial governments inked a sweeping acc...