Category Archives: National News – CP

VANCOUVER - A sizzling heat wave during the last week of June in Western Canada left little unsinged, including fragile glaciers that are already melting at an accelerated pace, experts say. Dozens of...

WASHINGTON - A well-known American advocate of stronger Canada-U.S. ties helped state lawmakers from across the Midwest formally vent their bilateral frustrations Wednesday with an official request th...

OTTAWA - Black Canadian leaders say governments must do more to help overcome vaccine hesitancy in their communities. Toronto orthopedic surgeon Dr. Ato Sekyi-Otu, leader of the health-care task force...

OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh is promising that infrastructure projects funded by a New Democratic government would use Canadian steel and other domestic goods to help get people working. "Any time we talk a...

GASP, Que. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau travelled to Quebec's Gasp region on Wednesday and made a campaign-style announcement of $25 million to expand a wind turbine plant to produce blades destine...

KELOWNA, B.C. - Photos of bright yellow and orange safety shirts or vests hanging on front stoops or in windows are spreading across social media as communities in B.C.'s Okanagan Valley mourn the dea...

MONTREAL - A new website that allows Montrealers to self-report interactions with police will make it easier to advocate for the better treatment of racialized people, according to its creators. The S...

MONTREAL - A Black Montreal man who was wrongfully arrested in January and jailed for six days for the attempted murder of a police officer is suing the City of Montreal and Crown prosecutors, seeking...

FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick-based whale-rescue team says two North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence are entangled in fishing gear, a dangerous situation experts say risks killing th...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 6:15 p.m. Alberta is reporting one death and 46 new COVID-19 infections for a total of 569 active cases. The province says 33 of...