Category Archives: National News – CP

SOOKE - Police on Vancouver Island say a youth who lives in Sooke, B.C., has been charged after allegedly making threats about a school shooting in online chats with a 15-year-old in the United States...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has started the process to fill the Supreme Court of Canada vacancy that will open up when Justice Sheilah Martin retires on May 30. The Montreal-born Martin traine...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's government is proposing major changes to its law governing citizen-led petitions for the third time in less than a year. Justice Minister Mickey Amery intro...

CALGARY - Calgarians are on track to be free of water restrictions ahead of the upcoming Easter weekend. Michael Thompson, Calgary's general manager of infrastructure services, says repairs on an aili...

OTTAWA - Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said on Monday he isn't worried Mexico will sign a trade agreement with the Americans that excludes Canada. LeBlanc told reporters at a news confere...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and her United Conservative government spoke of their unwavering love for Canada on Monday as the Opposition NDP accused them of harbouring a separatist. "It'...

EDMONTON - Those found guilty of neglecting or abusing animals in Alberta could soon face much stiffer penalties. A bill tabled by Agriculture Minister R.J. Sigurdson would, if passed, increase the ma...

HALIFAX - The federal government says it will not approve a controversial proposal to infill part of Halifax Harbour in order to facilitate a private development project. Minister of Fisheries and Oce...

VANCOUVER - The lawyer for the man accused of killing of RCMP Const. Shaelyn Yang in a Burnaby, B.C., park in 2022 says he wants to be found mentally fit for trial. Jongwon Ham, who appeared at the B....

Workers at Metro's head office and the Laval, Que., fruit and vegetable distribution centre went on strike Monday morning. The strike includes about 550 warehouse workers and drivers at the Mrite 1 wa...