Category Archives: National News – CP

OTTAWA - The crisis in Afghanistan - alongside the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic - has thrown up an alarming backdrop to the federal election, which could overshadow campaign efforts by Liberal Leader Jus...

YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories has reinstated its mask mandate amid a growing number of COVID-19 cases. Masks will be mandatory in all indoor public spaces starting Thursday morning. The terr...

VANCOUVER - One person is believed to be dead and another is in hospital after part of a building collapsed, RCMP in North Vancouver said Wednesday. Fire and rescue personnel determined that one perso...

EDMONTON - A former long-haul trucker from Ontario who is in an Alberta prison for killing a woman in an Edmonton hotel room a decade ago is appealing his conviction and sentence. Bradley Barton was s...

Montreal police officers are trained to be alert for danger, but after two officers were allegedly targeted by bullets earlier this week, members of the force are being urged to be extra careful, Insp...

EDMONTON - Alberta reported more than 1,000 new cases of COVID-19 on Wednesdaybut, along with Saskatchewan, is not planning to follow broad mask mandates announced this week by neighbouring western pr...

WHITEHORSE - Yukon will lift its civil state of emergency put in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic as it shifts to targeting specific outbreaks, Premier Sandy Silver said Wednesday. He said certain h...

CALGARY - Canadian imams are urging members of the Muslim community to get vaccinated to protect themselves and others from COVID-19. Twenty-five religious leaders have issued a joint statement pointi...

The Canadian military will end its mission at Kabul airport on Thursday, as Liberal cabinet minister Maryam Monsef sparked controversy by using the term "brothers" to challenge the Taliban to protect ...

VANCOUVER - Emergency Management BC says about 3,700 properties were on evacuation order on Wednesday, down from nearly 8,200 a week ago. A news release says nearly 11,300 properties were on evacuatio...