Category Archives: National News – CP

PENTICTON, B.C. - The B.C. Wildfire Service says a fire burning south of Penticton, B.C. has seen "minimal" growth over the weekend, but it's starting to spread southeast. The Saturday eveni...

OTTAWA - Perrin Beatty was on his way home from the office when his phone rang. It was Chrystia Freeland, who 24 hours earlier had become Canada's finance minister. For the president of the Canadian C...

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau first met Chrystia Freeland at a 2012 Toronto signing for her award-winning book, Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else. The tome...

VIRDEN, Man. - James Blacksmith closes his eyes and goes back to the moment he saw a pine tree viciously uprooted from the earth and topple onto his Jeep's roof. Within seconds, the windows burst from...

TORONTO - Landlords are lining up to sign Rees Nam and their partner as tenants, even though the two have already found an apartment in Toronto - a far cry from when Nam was last on the hunt...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - As Newfoundland and Labrador's newly minted premier gets to work addressing the province's economic problems, he must turn his attention to another pressing political hurdle: winnin...

MONTREAL - Like many post-secondary students preparing for the new school year, Francis Leroux is packing boxes and getting ready to move. But the 23-year-old trainee pri...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has retrieved some data, including a portion of cockpit conversations, from the Ukrainian jetliner accidentally downed by the Revolutionary Guard forces in January, killing all 176...

TORONTO - A ticket holder in Ontario won the $6 million jackpot in Saturday night's Lotto 649 draw. The draw's $1 million guaranteed prize went to a lottery player in British Columbia. The jackpot for...

OTTAWA - Peter MacKay is leading after the first round in the federal Conservative leadership race - a result revealed hours later than planned. Derek Sloan's name will now be dropped off the ballot a...