OTTAWA - Former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland says it's important for national security reasons that Canada do everything it can to diversify trade away from the United States. During a discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations in New Y...

VANCOUVER - Author and former University of British Columbia creative writing chair Steven Galloway has concluded testifying in his defamation lawsuit trial in Vancouver. Galloway, who alleges the defendants defamed him by publishing unproven allegati...

MONTREAL - The Canadian Press is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its French-language service, which sent out its first dispatches on Sept. 30, 1951. Until then, The Canadian Press, founded in 1917, had been sending English-language dispatches to F...

CALGARY - Three people died Thursday when a transit bus set off a chain-reaction crash on a busy Calgary road and rear-ended another bus to ignite an explosion Officials said the three killed were on one of the buses, and more than a dozen others were ...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia Conservatives have dumped a teenage candidate in the provincial election after he was accused of posting "offensive" remarks online about the Holocaust and Hitler. The party said Thursday that Jordan McIntosh was no long...

OTTAWA - Environment and Climate Change Canada warned National Defence earlier this year that the CFB Kingston base had broken federal environmental regulations by failing to test air conditioners for refrigerant leaks. After inspecting a building on t...

VANCOUVER - A second Vancouver police officer involved in the violent arrest that ended in the death of Myles Gray says he had never previously encountered someone in such a state that he believed was a medical situation known as "excited delirium." Co...

MONTREAL - Canada and the European Union are laying out concrete steps to strengthen ties around digital security and defence as well as critical resources and a would-be fleet of Canadian-made water bombers, according to a draft joint statement ahead ...

OTTAWA - Cultural sector groups say they're starting to worry about the Liberal government's silence on $600 million in promised funding. "Funding that was supposed to reduce uncertainty is actually now leading to greater uncertainty, because we don't ...

OTTAWA - Global Affairs Canada has issued an advisory cautioning against travel to Saudi Arabia and specific airports that have been targeted during the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. The advisory, issued by Canada's embassy in the kingdom, notes...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will hear a case about a First Nation's claim to title over a swath of Nootka Island. The Nuchatlaht First Nation brought a claim for Aboriginal title to about 200 square kilometres of the island, which lies off the...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada said Thursday it will hear an appeal that will determine if Ottawa's ban on single-use plastics can stay in place. In 2022, Ottawa phased in a ban on the manufacture and sale of six single-use plastic items, includi...

OTTAWA - The federal government plans to spend $430 million over the next five years to help unions train a new generation of workers in the skilled trades. John Zerucelli, secretary of state for labour, announced Thursday that Ottawa is opening applic...

WINNIPEG - Provincial and territorial health ministers are still pushing for clarity on federal funding despite a one-year extension on some programs, Manitoba Health Minister Uzoma Asagwara said Thursday. Speaking as host of the meeting of ministers i...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Ottawa to announce $100 million toward offshore wind projects in Nova Scotia The federal government is set to announce a $100-million commitment toward developing...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's three main party leaders took part in the only televised debate in the provincial election on Wednesday night, trading barbs, criticizing their opponents' policies and making their pitch for votes. Here are five take-awa...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver mayoral candidates Ken Sim and Pete Fry view each other as their main rival in the battle for City Hall. But while recent polling suggests the mayoral race is indeed a faceoff between incumbent Sim and two-term Green Councillor Fr...

DARTMOUTH - The federal government is committing $100-million toward development of a Nova Scotia offshore wind energy project with the potential to power homes and businesses in Quebec, Ontario and New England. Federal Energy Minister Tim Hodgson was ...

CALGARY - Prime Minister Mark Carney told thousands rallying in Calgary on Thursday night that Albertans should vote to keep the province in Canada, arguing that failing to do so would cause "deep division and great uncertainty." "Vote like Canada depe...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada heard arguments Thursday from a coalition challenging the constitutionality of legislation that clears the way for major changes at Ontario Place. Judges on the top court peppered counsel for the coalition and the C...

VANCOUVER - Three of British Columbia's provincial party leaders debated Wednesday on issues such as health care, seniors housing, public safety, Indigenous relations, housing and government financing. Here are some key quotes from Wednesday's televis...

OTTAWA - The federal government says it plans to extend funding to provinces and territories for mental health, addictions and home care by one year. Health Minister Marjorie Michel says in a social media post that the announced extension represents $1...

SEATTLE - A grand jury in Washington state has indicted an alleged co-conspirator in the Tumbler Ridge, B.C., mass shooting. The indictment of 30-year-old James Bryant for conspiracy to murder persons in a foreign country means there is probable cause ...

VICTORIA - The BC Lumber Trade Council says Canadian softwood lumber now faces total import taxes of almost 35 per cent after the latest review from the U.S. Department of Commerce. The organization representing B.C. lumber producers says the new figur...

EDMONTON - 'Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she has officially marked her ballot in the provinces separation referendum - and it's a vote for a united Canada. "We have seen great progress lately in addressing the unfair laws and policies that have ...

OTTAWA - Major Projects CEO Dawn Farrell told First Nations in B.C. on Wednesday that the frustrations expressed over a lack of consultation on the Pacific Link pipeline made her feel like Canada is "never going to work," but her office is determined t...

TSAWWASSEN - Police in Delta, B.C., say a third woman has died as a result of a truck crashing into pedestrians outside a mall on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The death of 64-year-old Gwenyth Brigit Dwyn of South Delta, B.C., comes af...

VICTORIA - Toxic drug deaths in British Columbia in July and August have fallen to their lowest levels in those months since before the pandemic. Data from the BC Coroners Service shows that 113 people died in July, and 126 people in August, with those...