Category Archives: National News – CP

OTTAWA - A Toronto man wants to make honesty the best political policy by passing a bill that would hold members of Parliament more accountable for telling lies. Federico Sanchez has initiated an elec...

MONTREAL - Montreal police say a 33-year-old man was arrested last month after reports that people at an electronic music festival were allegedly pricked with needles. Police spokesperson Vronique Dub...

OTTAWA - Canada is "evaluating the relationship with Israel", Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Wednesday after Prime Minister Mark Carney called the country's strike on Qatar "an unprovoked a...

HALIFAX - Senior Nova Scotia government officials defended on Wednesday the practice of tendering public contracts without a competitive bidding process. In an appearance before a legislature committe...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday the temporary foreign worker program needs a "focused approach" that targets the needs of specific sectors and regions. Carney's comments came as he ...

OTTAWA - Canada will be hosting G7 energy and environment ministers in Toronto next month. The meeting takes place Oct. 30 to 31 and the agenda is broad, covering topics like wildfires and artificial ...

Planet-warming emissions from a group of the world's largest fossil fuel producers have significantly ramped up the intensity of heat waves, a new study suggests, one of the first peer-reviewed papers...

VANCOUVER - Smoke from record-breaking Canadian wildfires in 2023 caused an estimated 5,400 acute deaths and about 82,100 premature deaths worldwide, a new study shows. The study published in the peer...

OTTAWA - Canada's defence minister won't say whether Canada played a role in taking down Russian drones that violated Polish airspace overnight Wednesday but Prime Minister Mark Carney called for the ...

The dramatic start to Canada's fall weather will give way to mild temperatures in the middle of the season, the Weather Network's seasonal forecast suggests, but not before a possibly abrupt transitio...