Category Archives: National News – CP

TORONTO - The Globe and Mail has won a leading eight awards at the National Newspaper Awards, including prizes for breaking news and project of the year. The awards were handed out Friday via a webcas...

CALGARY - A union is trying to halt the planned reopening of an Alberta beef-packing plant that has been the site of a major COVID-19 outbreak.   There have been 921 cases of the virus at th...

EDMONTON - Alberta is launching a voluntary mobile app to expand contact tracing for COVID-19 to help reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus. It's believed to be the first of its kind in Nort...

OTTAWA - Federal officials say the next two weeks will be crucial in trying to determine the scope and severity of the spread of COVID-19 in First Nations communities. Cases of the virus have begun to...

The gradual reopening of Canada's economy will not mean business as usual for the country's public transit agencies. Despite the fact that a slowly growing number of workers will make their way b...

OTTAWA - The federal government has outlawed a wide range of rifles with the aim of making Canada safer, saying the guns were designed for the battlefield, not hunting or sport shooting. The ban ...

WASHINGTON - The United States is keeping Canada and its plans to overhaul its drug-pricing system on a "watch list" of countries deemed a peril to American intellectual property rights...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - More of the 13,000 residents forced out by flooding in Fort McMurray have been allowed to return to their homes, but an ice jam on the Peace River was threatening seve...

SMITHERS, B.C. - Elected chiefs of a First Nation that's split over a natural gas pipeline through their territory say they will not sign a deal on rights and title, a day after the hereditary ch...

TORONTO - It's too soon to brand Canada's new prison-exchange program as unconstitutional given that correctional authorities are still making changes to it as they roll it out, an Ontario court ...