TORONTO - The first debate in the Ontario Liberals' leadership race began Monday night with a clear divide, between the haves and have nots. Through the 90-minute debate, the five candidates pitched ideas on health care, education and affordability, wi...

CALGARY - A police officer was shot Monday in what began as a traffic stop but spiralled within seconds into a foot chase, a carjacking and a broad-daylight gun battle in a Calgary park. The chase ended with the suspect, a man police say was an organiz...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government says the final accounting for the budget year ending in March shows a deficit of $7.7 billion, more than three billion lower than forecast. The latest fiscal update from Finance Minister Brenda Bailey on Mond...

PENTICTON - The explosive wildfire that roared down on Summerland, B.C., forced about 20,000 people to flee over the weekend. Some spoke of a scramble for safety, and the later realization that their homes or other properties had been destroyed. Here a...

OTTAWA - Ottawa is appointing a former investment banker and public servant with links to Prime Minister Mark Carney to steer the board of directors at its affordable housing agency. Build Canada Homes' inaugural board chair Evan Siddall was CEO of the...

FREDERICTON - It's no surprise that most of the key leaders missed an annual roundtable meeting of northeastern U.S. governors and Canadian premiers, says a University of Prince Edward Island political scientist. Don Desserud, chair of political scienc...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia legislature has temporarily banned 36 people from setting foot in the building for allegedly causing a disruption during the last session. Chief clerk James Charlton said Monday the legislature issued letters informing people ...

The RCMP's Federal Policing Eastern Region said Marc Porlier, 51, has been charged with uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm. Police said Porlier allegedly made the threats in an email.

Duane "Keffe D" Davis, 63, has pleaded not guilty to one charge of murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang in Tupac Shakur's death.

CLINTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - A high-altitude research aircraft from NASA flew over British Columbia's wildfires over the weekend in a bid to better understand weather events generated by large blazes. Online aviation tracking shows the ER-2 plan...

OTTAWA - Voters in a number of ridings across the country will be asked to choose new federal representatives in the coming weeks and months as members of Parliament from four major parties take on diplomatic appointments, provincial races and retireme...

HALIFAX - A bomb threat and subsequent arrest in Halifax prompted police to evacuate several downtown streets and buildings near the waterfront for several hours on Monday. Just before 9 a.m., Halifax Regional Police issued a statement saying a man was...

OTTAWA - A Montreal man was arrested and charged for allegedly making death threats against Prime Minister Mark Carney, the RCMP said Monday. The RCMP's Federal Policing Eastern Region said Marc Porlier, 51, has been charged with uttering threats to c...

OTTAWA - Byelections this year to replace departing members of Parliament are expected to cost taxpayers upwards of $24 million, an Elections Canada estimate suggests. The election agency says that while the cost of holding a byelection can vary accord...

YAMACHICHE - Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette says she's open to allowing U.S. wines to return to liquor store shelves, but not at any price. Fréchette says that the province first wants to see gains on the trade front. As an example, the premier say...

The child whose refusal to buckle up prompted the cancellation of a Porter Airlines flight last week was "obviously terrified" and should not be blamed, says a passenger who was on the plane bound for Toronto. The aircraft could not take off from Victo...

MONTREAL - The RCMP say a 51-year-old Montreal man has been charged for allegedly making death threats against Prime Minister Mark Carney. The federal police say the man allegedly made threatening remarks in an email sent to a senator and other people...

OTTAWA - Citing lingering health effects from a car accident late last year, Liberal MP Shaun Chen said he plans to resign at the end of this week. The Scarborough North MP, who has represented the riding since 2015, issued a statement on social media ...

The U.S. Attorney's office for the District of Hawaii says court documents show Dallas Pokornik, 34, admitted to using a fake employee identification card to get free flights from three airlines.

There were three byelections in April, all won by the Liberals, and three more are set for Aug. 31 in North Vancouver-Capilano, Chicoutimi-Le Fjord in Quebec and Beaches-East York in Toronto.

Officials in the United States say a Toronto man who falsely posed as a commercial pilot to get hundreds of free flights has pleaded guilty to wire fraud. The U.S. Attorney's office for the District of Hawaii says court documents show Dallas Pokornik, ...

The relief is meant to encourage companies that use steel in their manufacturing processes to turn to domestic suppliers rather than rely on the United States and other foreign suppliers.

OTTAWA - Ottawa plans to slash the cost of shipping steel domestically over the next year in a bid to help Canadian producers hit hard by tariffs. Transportation Minister Steven MacKinnon was in Hamilton on Monday to announce a $100-million rebate plan...

Binface, who has run against prime ministers past and present, was the first to throw his bucket in the ring when Reform UK's Nigel Farage abruptly quit Parliament and said he would seek reelection.

The aircraft could not take off in what Porter called an unsafe situation, so the crew elected to return to the terminal and have the two passengers disembark.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Evacuees slowly learn of losses from B.C. wildfire that forced thousands to flee The thousands forced out by the Bald Range wildfire in the South Okanagan region ...

ELIZABETHTOWN - Melina Frattolin's loved ones and family members sobbed in a New York courthouse on Monday after a jury found the girl's father guilty of drowning her and hiding her body in a marsh last summer. A group of family members held onto each ...

PENTICTON - Heartbroken Okanagan-area officials have told wildfire evacuees to prepare themselves for the level of destruction left by a deadly blaze in B.C.'s southern Interior that police say has triggered a criminal investigation. The out-of-control...

PENTICTON - When Erick Thompson decided he had to flee with his family as a wildfire roared towards Summerland, B.C., around 1:40 a.m. on Saturday, he also knew he had to keep filming. That's because Thompson is the senior manager of communications for...

MONTREAL - Frantz Jean-Jacques remembers feeling hopeful after coming out of a meeting more than a decade ago with the commander of a police station in a multicultural neighbourhood of Montreal. Over a dozen local residents attended, including a number...

MONTREAL - As a police station in a Montreal multicultural neighbourhood grapples with allegations of racism and brutality made public in June, local residents are preparing for a public meeting with city officials and the chief of the police force on ...

MONTREAL - Local residents in a multicultural neighbourhood in Montreal may not be the only ones looking for answers about a scandal at their local police station. The police have shared little public information about the investigation since June 12, ...

MAPLE RIDGE - A young girl is in hospital after police and conservation officials say she was attacked by a bear outside her family's home in a city east of Vancouver. British Columbia's Conservation Officer Service says in an online statement that the...

MONTREAL - Geneviève Gagnon says she has been attending the Montreal Pride parade with her children for many years. She came to watch the parade downtown on Sunday with her daughter, Florence, who was wrapped in a Pride flag and came out as pansexual w...

TORONTO - Wealthsimple's newest product has given armchair economists and Canadians convinced they can predict Mother Nature a chance to put their skills to the test, but some say the business is likely after an even bigger audience. The Toronto-based...

A group that represents numerous First Nations across British Columbia is calling on Ottawa and Alberta's government to halt efforts to advance the West Coast pipeline, saying expanding the oil industry will accelerate climate change and disasters. "Th...

OTTAWA - Lawyers and organizations working on environmental issues and migrants' rights are concerned about changes to the Access to Information Act proposed by Prime Minister Mark Carney's government. One of the amendments that concerns them most is t...

AGASSIZ - Gena Edwards, president of the BC Native Women's Association, said that when Frederick Charlie was acquitted of second-degree murder last month in the killing of Vanessa Terry, there were gasps. It felt like "a punch to the stomach," she said...

Thousands of residents in the British Columbia communities of Summerland and Peachland have been chased out of their homes by an explosive wildfire that sprang up Friday. Here is the latest on the wildfire that forced 20,000 to flee (all times PT): 4...

OTTAWA - Canada's prime minister will be working reduced hours for a week starting Monday because he previously committed to plans in Italy. But Mark Carney's office says he will still keep his eyes on several government priorities, including trade neg...

VANCOUVER - A ferocious fire has forced thousands of residents out in Summerland and Peachland along British Columbia's Okanagan Lake. It's unclear if homes have been lost in the latest fire to flare up in the province, but it's been an early and destr...

MONTRÉAL - As pride month celebrations take place across Quebec, political candidates from sexual and gender-diverse backgrounds who are running in the fall provincial election are sounding the alarm over a flood of hateful messages targeting them. Qué...

When Tom Davison's son-in-law invested in firefighting equipment for their orchard near Vernon, B.C., after a wildfire swept past in 2021, Davison wasn't sure the hoses would get much use. He figured the blaze, which caused smoke damage to the property...

OTTAWA - The federal government is working on a project that would map out areas of Canada that lack local news coverage. "Canadian Heritage has recently engaged a team of independent industry experts to develop a local news directory - a multi-phase, ...

Officials in the Central Okanagan are urging people who have remained in their homes in areas under evacuation order to leave, saying forecasted winds may fan the flames of the Quilpituk Creek wildfire in the coming days. A statement from the region's ...