Author Archives: The Canadian Press

Hidden in a downtown Toronto tourist hub is a rich, little-known history. The area now called the Discovery District -- home to such landmarks as Toronto City Hall, Nathan Phillips Square and the Eato...

Concern over the spread of COVID-19 has delayed some voting in the Newfoundland and Labrador provincial election, postponed school holidays in Ontario and prompted Manitoba to seek vaccine from a Cana...

OTTAWA - Bloc Qubcois Leader Yves-Franois Blanchet is laying out his demands ahead of the spring budget, with greater health transfers to provinces and more support for seniors at the top of his list....

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Lawyers for Inuit hunters who blocked an airstrip and road at an iron ore mine in Nunavut say they will end their protest for now. The blockade started a week ago after seven hunter...

LONDON - A newspaper invaded the Duchess of Sussex's privacy by publishing a personal letter to her estranged father, a British judge ruled Thursday, in a major victory for the royal in her campaign a...

OTTAWA - The federal government would have to spend about $1.4 billion more a year to close a housing gap facing urban Indigenous people, the parliamentary budget officer says in a report that hints a...

TORONTO - The Conservative party's use of CBC news footage in a partisan attack ad and tweets was a copyright infringement damaging to the public broadcaster's integrity and impartiality, Federal Cour...

OTTAWA - The federal government has announced $55 million in funding to support Canada's clean technology sector. The money is from a pool of $750 million announced in December for Sustainable Develop...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 6:25 p.m. Health officials in Alberta are reporting 352 new cases of COVID-19 and 16 more deaths from the virus. The province ha...

SAINT-ALPHONSE-RODRIGUEZ, Que. - Quebec police continued searching Thursday for a federal inmate serving a sentence for two murders who escaped a minimum security facility north of Montreal Wednesday ...