Category Archives: National News – CP

OTTAWA - Most economists expect the Bank of Canada will look past strong jobs data and signs of stubbornness on the inflation front to deliver a second consecutive interest rate cut this week. BMO chi...

EDMONTON - Premier Danielle Smith's caucus worked into the wee hours of Tuesday morning to curtail debate and speedily pass a bill using the Charter's notwithstanding clause to order 51,000 striking t...

TORONTO - An editorial published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Monday says more youth are using opioids and calls for urgent action to provide treatment when they become addicted. "Th...

OTTAWA - The Canadian War Museum says its chief historian and research director has died. The museum's CEO announced the death in a news release Sunday, saying Tim Cook was "instrumental in shaping th...

No, your eyes weren't deceiving you, Jays fans. That was Colonel Sanders behind the plate. A man looking very much like founder of KFC, right down the white suit, hair, mustache and Van Dyke beard, wa...

MONTREAL - Dozens of residents of a town northeast of Montreal where the Port of Montreal wants to expand capacity at a container facility say the project is unnecessary and harmful. Residents demonst...

BURNABY - The B.C. General Employees' Union says it will recommend that its members vote to accept a tentative deal reached with the provincial government to bring an end to strike action, while a uni...

MONTREAL - Advance polls are open across 1,100 Quebec municipalities, just one week shy of the provincewide Nov. 2 vote. Polls will be open today between noon and 8 p.m., but many citizens have not re...

OTTAWA - The NDP leadership contenders are working on their French language skills as they prepare to meet for their first debate on Nov. 27 in Montreal, expected to be held primarily in French. The o...

TORONTO - A viral Reddit thread has prompted over 150 Blue Jays fans to donate to the Seattle Children's Hospital. In a comment from Oct. 20, Reddit user @brownmagician posted that they would make a d...