Category Archives: National News – CP

The mother of a nine-year-old British Columbia girl with a rare and deadly disease says she's "disgusted" with the decision not to renew coverage for medication that costs about $1 million a year. Cha...

SURREY, B.C. - The British Columbia provincial court has handed a retired RCMP officer a suspended sentence, saying the man was "reckless" but not deceitful when he convinced a neighbour to invest in ...

EDMONTON - Alberta and Ottawa have signed off on $203 million for new affordable housing projects across the province. Provincial Social Services Minister Jason Nixon says the joint funding will go to...

OTTAWA - Ottawa has asked First Nations chiefs to submit their questions in advance of their meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney next week to discuss his government's controversial major projects ...

SALABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD - The mother accused of abandoning her three-year-old daughter in a field near a highway in Ontario burst into tears on Friday as a judge told her she was being denied bail. T...

TORONTO - The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario is relaxing its policy against doctors treating themselves, family members and others close to them amid the province's primary care crisis....

MONTREAL - A former corrections worker has been charged in the death of a 21-year-old man who died after an altercation with guards while he was unlawfully detained at a Montreal jail in 2022. Quebec ...

TORONTO - Ontario's environment minister has apologized to First Nation chiefs for any "confusion" his letter caused when he asked the federal government to not reintroduce a bill that would enshrine ...

OTTAWA - Canada's labour market topped expectations in June amid a surprise surge in hiring. Statistics Canada said Friday that the unemployment rate dropped a tenth of a percentage point to 6.9 per c...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 6.9 per cent in June. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, howe...