VANCOUVER - A defendant in Steven Galloway's defamation lawsuit says she was concerned about the potential for self harm by the woman who accused the author and former University of British Columbia professor of rape and sexual assault, which he denies...

OTTAWA - The federal government spent $19 billion on external consultants last year, despite a promise to cut back on its use of outside contractors. The government's audited financial statements for last year were released on Friday and they show the ...

VANCOUVER - An environmental economist testifying at Canada's first youth-led climate trial says the country has a limited ability to affect the climate inside its borders as it is largely determined by the choices of other countries. David Anthoff, w...

OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Lena Diab says the new immigration levels plan is meant to make the system more predictable while doing the "right thing" by clearing a severely backlogged humanitarian permanent residency stream. The levels plan, publishe...

OTTAWA - The Office of the Auditor General of Canada says the federal government wrote off billions of dollars last year in COVID-19 benefits that it no longer expects to see repaid. The federal government is trying to recoup payments made to Canadians...

ST. JOHN'S - It's tough to sleep and brush your teeth in space and the food is mostly liquid, but Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk said Monday that he is nonetheless having a blast. Kutryk beamed into a science centre in St. John's, N.L., to answer a f...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has recruited another global investment executive to his government, this time to helm Canada's first sovereign wealth fund. The Prime Minister's Office announced today that Karen Karniol-Tambour will be the inaugura...

OTTAWA - The federal government has released details of how its promised $600 million for Canadian content will be spent - though it says the amount it will provide in future years could vary. In June, the government said it would provide $600 million ...

VICTORIA - The B.C. Conservatives have gained another seat after the final count of votes in the October provincial election. Conservative candidate David Xie reeled in NDP incumbent Paul Choi in Burnaby South-Metrotown, overcoming Choi's 66-vote lead ...

Payments Canada says it has launched its real-time rail national payment system, which is expected to speed day-to-day payments for Canadian businesses and consumers. It says the new system is expected to enable participating members to exchange, clear...

Canada's Secretary of State for Sport Adam van Koeverden has cast doubt on whether Russia can compete as a neutral team at the upcoming world junior hockey championship in Alberta. The development follows last month's Court of Arbitration for Sport rul...

OTTAWA - The federal government is extending the period of time a business can employ a low-wage temporary foreign worker. The change will lengthen the maximum duration of a low-wage Labour Market Impact Assessment - the document an employer needs in o...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Legal battle over federal firearms ban heads to Supreme Court of Canada The country's top court is set to hear legal arguments this week about the validity of a fe...

British Columbia's human rights tribunal has ruled that a private laboratory provider must pay $32,000 in damages, along with other costs, for discriminating against transgender and non-binary patients. The tribunal found LifeLabs and its subsidiary Ex...

VANCOUVER - Another series of storms is heading for British Columbia, after wild weather knocked out power to hundreds of thousands, triggered evacuations and left one person dead over the weekend. Environment Canada has issued about two dozen wind war...

OTTAWA - The country's top court is set to hear legal arguments this week about the validity of a federal ban on hundreds of types of firearms the government says are fit only for the battlefield. The hearings, slated for Monday and Tuesday at the Supr...

Spring comes to Leona Antoine's field in patches. The snow retreats from the Nicola River valley, leaving islands of wet grass scattered across her family's land. It's an invitation to carry on a practice she first learned from her grandfather. Antoi...

ZEBALLOS - The wind that blew outside Gerry Sullivan's bedroom in the Village of Zeballos on northwest Vancouver Island was enough to wake him up early Sunday morning. "It was just howling, and we had thunder, we had lightning," he said. Sullivan and h...

VANCOUVER - A 23-year-old Canadian soldier is being remembered as a globe-trotting, sporty and car-loving man with an infectious sense of humour and a fearless love for life. A photo of Pte. Aidan Goulding sat in front of the hundreds of military perso...

Former prime minister Justin Trudeau has joined England's Oxford University in a new role. Trudeau, 54, joined the Blavatnik School of Government as a distinguished fellow and member of the World Leaders Circle, the school said in a news release Frida...

OTTAWA - Canada's aid sector is expressing dismay over the first federal budget in more than 15 years to make no mention of foreign aid, and is calling on Ottawa to outline its vision in an upcoming foreign policy review. "The budget is largely silent ...

As the winter holiday season approaches, one of the most popular sunny destinations for Canadian travellers remains out of reach. The United States' oil blockade against Cuba triggered severe fuel shortages in the country and prompted Canadian airlines...

OTTAWA - The federal government is looking to restore the auditor general's access to privileged information. In Thursday's federal budget, a line item in a list of proposed legislative changes indicated Ottawa plans to update the Auditor General Act "...

OTTAWA - The United States Treasury Department has slapped sanctions on eight Canadian businesses for allegedly helping to evade sanctions on Iran's government. The department says it sanctioned money services businesses in British Columbia and Ontario...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government welcomes "any moves" to restore free trade between Canada and the United States as officials south of the border push to end the trade war. In the days since the U.S. midterm elections gave the De...

TORONTO - The man who carried out a deadly van attack in Toronto eight years ago is no longer challenging his more than two dozen convictions. Ontario's top court says Alek Minassian has abandoned the appeal of his convictions on 10 counts of first-deg...

A man from Mackenzie, B.C., who was the first to respond to a crash that injured 20 people when a shuttle bus careened off the highway said he is grateful he was in the wrong place at the right time. Rich Rogers was driving along Highway 39 with his wi...

VICTORIA - British Columbia premier-designate Lorne Doerkson is a fan of this week's federal budget, but two economists caution that it may not be easily emulated provincially. Marc Lee, senior economist with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives...