Category Archives: National News – CP

OTTAWA - The federal government says tens of thousands of seniors are at risk of losing benefits because they haven't yet filed their taxes. The Liberals are making a public plea for them to submit th...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has blasted opposition parties for continuing their effort to dig into the WE Charity issue, and says his government is instead focused on helping Canadians thro...

FREDERICTON - The Crown wrapped up its case Tuesday in the Matthew Raymond murder trial after it introduced videos of police interrogating the suspect in hospital following his 2018 arrest.Raymond, 50...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times Eastern): --- 6:42 p.m. Alberta's chief medical officer of health says the province will change the way COVID-19 is tested to make it more...

WASHINGTON, Wash. - Canada has signed on to the Artemis Accords, a U.S.-led effort to establish global guidelines for sending explorers back to the Moon and beyond.  NASA says space agencies in A...

MONTREAL - Quebec's human rights commission is investigating the recent deaths of two children in Wendake, Que., whose situation had been reported to the province's youth protection authorities. ...

MONTREAL - The decline in the daily number of new COVID-19 cases reported in Quebec is a sign the government's targeted lockdown approach is working, Premier Francois Legault said Tuesday, but he warn...

MONTREAL - A woman told Gilbert Rozon's sex assault trial Tuesday that the founder of the Just for Laughs comedy festival raped her 40 years ago in a ski-resort town north of Montreal.  "It was n...

OTTAWA - A leading Canadian expert on government-funded basic incomes says the oft-debated idea could have averted much of the economic effects of COVID-19. Evelyn Forget says a basic-income program w...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Oct. 13. What we are watching in Canada ... Th...