Category Archives: National News – CP

ASBESTOS, Que. - The Quebec town synonymous with the cancer-causing fibre asbestos has voted for a new name: Val-des-Sources. During a livestreamed council meeting Monday night, Mayor Hugues Grimard a...

OTTAWA - The House of Commons has unanimously approved in principle - for the third time - a bill that would require judges to commit to take training in sexual assault law. Bill C-3 will now be scrut...

The second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic pushed Canada's total case count past the 200,000 mark on Monday as tougher health restrictions took effect in some regions facing a surge in infections. The l...

HALIFAX - Kourosh Rad, owner of Garden Food Bar and Lounge in Halifax, says he removed his popular lobster-based menu items in support of the province's Mi'kmaq fishers. The Mi'kmaq are in a dispute o...

Spotty research and inconsistent monitoring have made it impossible to evaluate the health of most Canadian watersheds, a study has found. "It's still largely unknown," said Elizabeth Hendriks of the ...

Ontario urged families in four COVID-19 hot spots to hold off on trick-or-treating as the country inched towards marking 200,000 cases of the illness on Monday. The province's chief medical officer of...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 5:40 p.m. EDT on Oct. 19, 2020: There are 200,939 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 94,429 confirmed (including 6,044 deaths, 79,529 r...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): 6:31 p.m. B.C. is reporting 499 new cases of COVID-19 detected over the course of three days. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonn...

OTTAWA - The Opposition Conservatives are setting Parliament up for another showdown that could trigger a snap election.  The Tories will press ahead Tuesday with a motion that calls for the crea...

OTTAWA - The RCMP in Nova Scotia have failed to properly protect Indigenous people embroiled in an ugly dispute over lobster fishing, Canada's Indigenous services minister said Monday. Marc Miller was...