Category Archives: Canada
Airbus secures 150-plane order with AirAsia in boon for Quebec aviation
MIRABEL - Airbus Canada has signed a deal to supply AirAsia with a massive order of 150 of its Canadian-made A220 jets in a multibillion-dollar coup for Quebec's aviation industry. Unveiled Wednesday,...
May 06, 2026
More millennials lived with parents as adults than boomers at same age: StatCan
OTTAWA - Millennials aged 25 to 39 were nearly twice as likely to live with their parents as baby boomers when they were the same age, a new Statistics Canada analysis shows. According to census data,...
May 06, 2026
Claude Morin, architect of Quebec's Quiet Revolution and RCMP informant, dead at 96
MONTREAL - Claude Morin, architect of the Quiet Revolution who helped shape modern Quebec but whose political career unravelled in controversy, has died at 96. A former Parti Qubcois minister, Morin p...
May 06, 2026
Quebec pharmacy chain removing energy drinks from shelves to protect young people
MONTREAL - A Quebec City-based pharmacy chain says it will remove energy drinks from its store shelves amid growing calls for the Quebec government to ban the sale of the high-caffeine beverages to ch...
May 06, 2026
Cattle associations have beef with potential Mercosur trade deal
OTTAWA - Canadian cattle producers want the federal government to omit beef from the free trade agreement it is pushing to sign with the South American Mercosur trade bloc by the end of the year. Tyle...
May 06, 2026
Surgery to repair skull a success for Tumbler Ridge shooting victim Maya Gebala
VANCOUVER - The father of 12-year-old Maya Gebala, who was gravely injured in the Tumbler Ridge, B.C., mass shootings, says surgery to repair her damaged skull has been a success. David Gebala says in...
May 06, 2026
Carney, Liberals say they're waiting on committee report to decide on MAID extension
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday he won't take a position yet on whether people with only a mental illness should be able to access assisted dying. "I like to take informed positions...
May 06, 2026
Alaska landslide set off CN Tower-sized tsunami last year — and a warning for B.C.
When millions of tonnes of rock fell one kilometre into an Alaskan fiord last year, it set off one of the largest tsunamis ever recorded, a monstrous 481-metre wave higher than the tallest viewing pla...
May 06, 2026
In the news today: ChatGPT privacy, OPP funeral, Alert Ready test, Bon Cop, Bad Cop
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Report on OpenAI expected from federal, provincial privacy watchdogs today Privacy watchdogs plan to release a...
May 06, 2026
Canada's Alert Ready system to be tested in most provinces today
OTTAWA - Canadians across most of the country will hear the shrill screeching siren of the public alerting system today. A test message and tone from Alert Ready will be broadcast on television, radio...
May 06, 2026