Category Archives: National News – CP

OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals' fiscal update this week put a cost to all the emergency COVID-19 aid the federal treasury will dole out. It delivered some shocks: a gigantic deficit and a projecti...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $35 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw. That means the jackpot for the next draw on July 14 will grow to approximately $40 million. The Canad...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 12:02 p.m. ET on July 11, 2020: There are 107,346 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 56,407 confirmed (including 5,620 deaths, 25,773 r...

OTTAWA - The idea that the man accused of crashing into the grounds of Rideau Hall would have been treated differently if he were dark-skinned is disheartening, the RCMP's commissioner and the head of...

Executives from three of Canada's largest grocery chains were in communication before launching and ending temporary wage increases for grocery store workers during COVID-19, but m...

CALGARY - A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Cargill Ltd. that claims the meat-packing company failed to take reasonable precautions to protect its workers in Alberta during the COVID-...

MONTREAL - Quebec's arts scene is being rocked by a wave of sexual assault and harassment allegations against well-known figures in the province's entertainment industry. Mostly anonymous allegat...

MONTREAL - Thirty years after the proposed expansion of a golf course sparked a 78-day standoff between Quebec Mohawks and Canadian soldiers, the land claims at the heart of the Oka crisis r...

EDMONTON - Four years after its flames guttered out, the record-breaking Fort McMurray wildfire continues to astound - this time with its lasting impact on an extensive river system. "It's actual...

WASHINGTON - A Canadian cabinet minister was among the guests waiting in the virtual wings of a recent Zoom panel when the moderator posed one last question to the chairman of the U.S. ...