Category Archives: National News – CP

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is being pressed to approve funding for a made-in-Canada COVID-19 vaccine to lessen the risk Canadians will have to line up and wait on a foreign-made pandemic cure. Fo...

OTTAWA - Both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau are facing calls to resign - from two federal party leaders - over their involvement in the controversy swirling...

VANCOUVER - New court documents accuse the United States president of "poisoning" the extradition case against a Huawei executive being held in Canada. An application to B.C. Supreme Court b...

MONTREAL - The mother of a six-year-old girl who died after she was stabbed in an east-end Montreal residence was charged Friday with second-degree murder. The 36-year-old suspect,...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Members of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada have completed their work at the scene of a fatal helicopter crash in Newfoundland and Labrador. The Robinson R44 light uti...

OTTAWA - A Ukraine minister says a preliminary analysis of flight recorders has revealed that Iran illegally shot down a passenger jet from his country over Tehran. Yevhenii Yenin, Ukraine's deputy fo...

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 July 24 ... What...

OTTAWA - The number of asylum claims being filed in Canada continues to rise slightly despite ongoing global travel restrictions. The latest figures from the Immigration Department show 1,500 claims f...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:34 p.m. on July 24, 2020: There are 113,208 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 58,243 confirmed (including 5,663 deaths, 50,615 resol...

MONTREAL - Quebec's annual two-week construction holiday is in full swing, and with many Quebecers staying closer to home this summer because of COVID-19, towns in the Gaspe region are ...