Category Archives: National News – CP

FREDERICTON - A British couple is hoping to break through a glass ceiling with a balloon flight from Canada to Europe this summer. If the trip is successful, Deborah Day would become the first woman i...

OTTAWA - The Canadian military is looking for help taking out the trash in space. Over the last two years, the military's Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security program has awarded nearly $5 m...

OTTAWA - New figures from the federal government show 16,503 people were intercepted by the RCMP last year crossing between formal border points, likely to seek asylum in Canada. Those numbe...

SALMON ARM , B.C. - A judge says the father of two boys has the right to ensure his children receive necessary immunizations and dental treatments, despite objections from the children's mother. ...

OTTAWA - A former Canadian military reservist who was accused of being a neo-Nazi before disappearing last summer has been arrested in the United States. Dave Fitz of the FBI's Baltimore office says P...

WASHINGTON - Senators on Capitol Hill have finally approved the latest version of North America's free trade pact. The implementation bill for the long-awaited U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement passed on a...

OTTAWA - Former prime minister Stephen Harper has left his role with the chief fundraising arm of the federal Conservative party, but says he still intends to play a role with the party itself. Harper...

TORONTO - Sen. Mike Duffy has begun his appeal of a ruling that bars him from suing the Senate. He says his suspension by the Upper Chamber was politically motivated and possibly unlawful. As a result...

MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police are investigating the killing of a woman in her 30s inside a home in Mascouche. Officers were called to a residence today on des Anglais Road in the subur...

Canada's national police force is taking part in the massive effort to identify dozens of Canadians killed in last week's plane crash in Iran. While no RCMP officers are currently on th...