Category Archives: National News – CP

EDMONTON - Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews says the goal in 2021 is to get vaccines out and put the COVID-19 pandemic in the rear-view mirror, then work to fix a battered and beleaguered economy...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $6.4 million jackpot in Saturday night's Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was won by a ticket holder in British Columbia. The jackp...

VANCOUVER - A plastic barrier sits on a table between Debbie Drew and her father during their visits in the reception area of a long-term care home where the first Canadian died of COVID-19. Nine mont...

A variant of COVID-19 that has ravaged the U.K. is now in Canada, health officials said Saturday as they announced an Ontario couple had been diagnosed with the contagious new strain. The province's a...

IQALUIT - There are more than 60 words to describe sea ice in Inuktitut. For Nunavut's hunters, the words are critical when travelling across a frozen ocean highway by snowmobile or dog team. In Pond ...

No winning ticket sold for the $12 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next draw on Dec. 29 will be approximately $17 million. The Canadian Press

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (All times Eastern): 1:30 p.m. A Windsor, Ont., hospital is taking the lead on managing a long-term care home weathering a deadly COVID-19 outbreak t...

In her annual Christmas message, the Queen spoke about hope and kindness, praising nurses, front-line service workers and Good Samaritans.Yet, not once in the message that referenced social distancing...

EDMONTON - To Terri Suntjens, symbolism means everything. That's why she decided to get involved with the City of Edmonton's initiative to rename its wards. Suntjens, who is from the Saddle Lake Cree ...

EDMONTON - The City of Edmonton approved a bylaw earlier this month to change the names of its 12 wards to Indigenous ones. Here are the new names and their meanings: Nakota Isga (Ward 1): (NAH'-koh-t...