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Canada Post reports it lost $205M before taxes in first quarter
Canada Post says it lost $205 million before taxes in the first quarter of the year as the postal service moves forward with reforms meant to address its ongoing struggles. The Crown corporation saw i...
May 29, 2026 A Canada Post mailbox is pictured in Richmond B.C. on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
Poilievre says Carney's policies to blame for Canada dipping into recession territory
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Prime Minister Mark Carney's policies are to blame for Canada entering recession territory. Statistics Canada says the economy contracted slightly for the sec...
May 29, 2026 Conservative Party Leader Pierre Poilievre speaks during a press conference on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Friday, May 29, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Spencer Colby
Kenneth Law pleads guilty to aiding 14 suicides in Ontario
An Ontario man accused of selling deadly substances online to people at risk of self-harm has pleaded guilty to 14 counts of aiding suicide. Kenneth Law entered the pleas in a Newmarket, Ont., court t...
May 29, 2026
Wildfire forecast anticipates high risk for new wildfires in B.C., Prairies, N.W.T.
Federal officials say the start to this year's wildfire season has been slow compared with 2025, but that the overall risk remains high. The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre reports 65 active w...
May 28, 2026 Trees burned by wildfires in northern Manitoba are shown during a helicopter tour in the surrounding area of Flin Flon, Man. on Thursday, June 12, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mike Deal-Pool
Carney says 'co-operative federalism' is working, as Alberta preps for referendum
Prime Minister Mark Carney addressed the thorny issue of Alberta's separatist movement in the form of a metaphor this morning - likening Canada to the Parliament buildings: currently under renovation....
May 22, 2026
Carney says 'co-operative federalism' is working, as Alberta preps for referendum
Prime Minister Mark Carney addressed the thorny issue of Alberta's separatist movement in the form of a metaphor this morning - likening Canada to the Parliament buildings: currently under renovation....
May 22, 2026 Prime Minister Mark Carney makes a statement in the Library of Parliament in Centre Block on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, on Friday, May 22, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang
What Canadian aid workers face in the Ebola outbreak ravaging the Congo
People just keep coming. They know they have Ebola. Some have converged at the gate of the Doctors Without Borders office in Bunia, the capital city of Ituri province in the Democratic Republic of Con...
May 21, 2026 Red Cross workers carry the body of a person who died of Ebola into a coffin at a health center in Rwampara, Congo, Wednesday, May 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Moses Sawasawa)
Anand says she will summon Israeli ambassador over treatment of Gaza flotilla
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says she's directed her officials to summon Israeli Ambassador Iddo Moed after the "mistreatment of civilians" aboard a Gaza-bound flotilla. Activists say 11 Canad...
May 20, 2026 Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand speaks at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, April 8, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Dave Chidley
Snowbirds grounded until early 2030s while new planes built
The federal government says the Canadian Forces Snowbirds team is being grounded until the early 2030s while its aging planes are replaced. It says the modern CT-157 Siskin II aircraft will take over ...
May 19, 2026
City, B.C., First Nations in push to keep Whitecaps in Vancouver 'for generations'
The City of Vancouver, the B.C. government, First Nations and the Crown corporation that owns BC Place say they are working with "private partners" to keep the Whitecaps soccer team in the city. A joi...
May 14, 2026 Vancouver Whitecaps fans hold signs before the first half of an MLS soccer match against the Colorado Rapids in Vancouver, on Saturday, April 25, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ethan Cairns
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