Category Archives: National News – CP

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will revisit the decisions of courts in British Columbia and Ontario that said the federal law allowing prolonged solitary confinement in prison was unco...

OTTAWA - Canada's budget watchdog says economic growth during the final quarter of 2019 will be "significantly weaker" than predicted in its fall report. In its latest report on near-term growth, the ...

GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - A psychotherapist who talked to Lionel Desmond a few hours before he killed his family and himself says she didn't think the former soldier posed an imminent threat to hi...

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 Feb. 13 ... What...

OTTAWA - Canada will aim $6.5 million at research on stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus, after co-ordinating with researchers around the world on tackling the outbreak. Representatives of&nb...

TORONTO - A funeral is set to take place today for a four-year-old girl whose body was found next to her father's at the base of an escarpment in southwestern Ontario. Keira Kagan's family says the fu...

Via Rail has extended train cancellations on major routes in Ontario and Quebec as protests against a pipeline in northern B.C. stretched into a sixth-day on Wednesday. Passenger and freight rail...

OTTAWA - Canadian researchers are returning from a World Health Organization summit with a vision for Canada's role in tackling the novel coronavirus, now known as Covid-19. Representatives from aroun...

Canada appears poised to rack up a climate-change win, says a recent government report submitted to the United Nations. The federal report filed last month says Canada is on track ...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will decide today whether to hear the appeals of a Calgary couple found guilty of killing their diabetic teenage son. Emil and Rodica Radita were convict...