Category Archives: National News – CP

OTTAWA - National Chief Perry Bellegarde of the Assembly of First Nations says provincial governments that want to cling to their authority over child welfare are one of the biggest barriers to i...

OTTAWA - Providing almost all Canadians with a basic income for six months beginning this fall could cost about $98 billion, the parliamentary budget officer said in a report on the eve of&n...

HALIFAX - The Crown in Nova Scotia has dropped all charges against a Black woman accused of resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer during a confrontation in a Walmart that led to allega...

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 7 ... What ...

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests turbulence ahead for airlines seeking public support for their current COVID-19 plans. Seventy-two per cent of Canadians surveyed by Leger and the Association for Can...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 7:37 p.m. on July 7, 2020: There are 106,167 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 55,997 confirmed (including 5,590 deaths, 25,458 resolv...

OTTAWA - Legendary investor Warren Buffett's decision to walk away from a proposed export terminal for liquefied natural gas in Quebec is being held up in a new report as a sign that the LNG sector in...

CALGARY - A Saskatchewan man who had a heart attack after a hike in the Rocky Mountains says it was divine intervention that the same cardiac surgeon who helped resuscitate him near the trai...

OTTAWA - A federal prosecutor says the disclosure of evidence to defence lawyers has "slowed significantly" in the case of Cameron Jay Ortis, an RCMP member charged with revealing secrets. Crown ...

VANCOUVER - The First Nations Health Authority says 89 members of its community fatally overdosed from illicit drugs across British Columbia between January and May, an increase of 93 p...