Category Archives: National News – CP

Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino announced plans to expedite applications and increase the number of refugees to Canada at a news conference Friday. This year, the country will increase the number...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's promise of a two-dose fall is looking a lot more like it will become a two-dose August. Trudeau says Canada is on track now to have a total of 68 million doses...

OTTAWA - A prominent political commentator is asking a court to dismiss a defamation lawsuit from a former member of Parliament who is now leader of a fringe federal political party. A lawyer for Warr...

MONTREAL - A video that appears to show a Montreal police officer with his knee on a Black youth's neck prompted renewed concerns over controversial police restraint techniques on Friday. The minute-a...

OTTAWA - Lawyers wrapped up arguments today in a Federal Court case focused on how to compensate First Nations children unnecessarily taken from their families due to Canada's discriminatory policies....

QUEBEC - Prosecutors filed a direct indictment Friday against the man accused in a Quebec City Halloween night stabbing attack that killed two people. It means the case against 25-year-old Carl Giroua...

QUEBEC - Former Coalition Avenir Qubec member Claire Samson, dumped by the governing party's caucus earlier this week, has switched sides to the Conservative Party of Quebec. Samson made the move offi...

HALIFAX - Responding to complaints from an Indigenous girl and her mother, the Nova Scotia government has scrapped a high school correspondence course that asked students to list the advantages of the...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau voiced his support for Harjit Sajjan on Friday after opposition parties banded together in the House of Commons to censure the embattled defence minister. The pr...

More help is on the way for a First Nation gripped by an outbreak of COVID-19 in northern Ontario, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pledged Friday. Canadian Rangers, nurses and paramedics have already be...