Category Archives: National News – CP

MONTREAL - One day after Quebec Premier Franois Legault said he would resign ahead of the October election, at least one high-profile minister has come out publicly to say she is considering a bid to ...

OTTAWA - Manitoba NDP MP Leah Gazan is formally endorsing documentarian Avi Lewis for the party's leadership, making her the first sitting MP to officially back a candidate. Gazan says in a video rele...

BEIJING - Canada is entering a "new era of relations" with China and the stage is set for talks on ways the two countries can become "strategic partners," Prime Minister Mark Carney said Thursday. The...

VICTORIA - Iain Black, a former minister in the British Columbia government of Gordon Campbell, is joining the race to lead the provincial Conservatives. A campaign website says he will launch his bid...

British Columbia's three-year pilot project that decriminalized the possession of small amounts of illicit drugs for personal use is set to end on Jan. 31. Health Minister Josie Osbourne has announced...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Beijing this week for meetings with President Xi Jinping and other officials. Upon arriving in China Wednesday, Carney said he was "ready to build a new partn...

WINNIPEG - Health officials say most of the people taken to hospital after a school bus crash in western Manitoba are being released from hospital. One patient is expected to remain at Swan Valley Hea...

SASKATOON - A wildlife biologist says it's deeply concerning that two dead members of a critically endangered flock of birds that only breed in Canadian marshes have tested positive for the avian flu....

CALGARY - The Alberta government has launched a review of Calgary's water main ruptures and is demanding the city turn over reams of documents dating back two decades within the next two weeks. Munici...

British Columbia won't be renewing its agreement with Health Canada that allowed for the decriminalization of small amounts of drugs for personal possession, officially ending a three-year program tha...