Tag Archives: National

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of March 4 ... What...

VANCOUVER - "Wash your hands" has been the usual advice during flu season but "hands off" may well be the new mantra to reduce the risk of spreading the novel coronavirus as s...

OTTAWA - RCMP Staff Sgt. Hugh Stewart did not mince words. "You have one opportunity to move up that road and clear it off or you will be arrested," he told protesters at the 1997 Asia-Pacific Economi...

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests Canadians weren't happy with Justin Trudeau's handling of the natural-gas pipeline dispute in British Columbia that led to nationwide ra...

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests Peter MacKay is the favourite to win the federal Conservative leadership race, though most Canadians haven't made up their minds in the contest.  The Leger Marke...

OTTAWA - Omar Samad calls the agreement reached this past weekend between the United States and the Taliban a "peace opportunity," not an actual deal. Afghanistan's former ambassador to Canada sa...

TORONTO - The trial of a teen accused of sexually assaulting two students at a prestigious Toronto high school is expected to get underway today. The former student of St. Michael's College Schoo...

VICTORIA - Three more cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed in British Columbia, bringing the total of people infected to 12 in the province.   The Canadian Press

CALGARY - A Calgary judge has acquitted a former university student on charges connected to a drug-fuelled attack on a professor. Queen's Bench Justice Michele Hollins determined that the man, who had...

OTTAWA - The case against Canada's chief military judge is back in limbo after a civilian judge refused to order one military judge to appoint another military judge to preside over the court martial ...