Category Archives: National News – CP

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... BoC expected to cut key lending rate today The Bank of Canada is set to announce its interest rate decision to...

EDMONTON - As the clock ticks toward a potential provincewide strike by Alberta's teachers, parents say classroom overcrowding is having a disastrous domino effect on learning with tutors being hired ...

MONTREAL - When immigration lawyer Hana Marku opened her email weeks ago to a photo of an emaciated infant in the Gaza Strip, she said she felt helpless. The child is among about 50 Palestinians the T...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada cut its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point on Wednesday as the central bank worries less about inflation risks and more about a slowing economy. The central bank's ...

EDMONTON - Premier Danielle Smith's Alberta Next panel, aimed at wrenching more political control from Ottawa, was spurred to take action in Grande Prairie Wednesday. The panel is pitching six ideas t...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Democrat Xp Lee won a special election Tuesday to fill the Minnesota House seat of a top Democratic leader who was assassinated, restoring a 67-67 tie and preserving a power-sharing...

CALGARY - The Alberta government is changing its industrial carbon tax program to let companies avoid paying provincial fees for emissions by investing in their own emissions reduction projects instea...

A British Columbia RCMP officer says his use of inappropriate and discriminatory language in group chats and on police data terminals wasn't meant to be malicious, and had "no connection" to the way h...

OTTAWA - A salmonella outbreak linked to salami and cacciatore that sickened dozens of people in several provinces appears to be over. The Public Health Agency of Canada says there were 90 confirmed s...

The regional director of a union representing workers at the Amazon facility in Delta, B.C., says leaders are scheduled to meet its members for the first time on the company's property. Unifor Western...