OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's communications director Katy Merrifield is resigning. Merrifield announced her departure in an email sent to the Conservative caucus Tuesday, adding her last day working in the Opposition Leader's Office ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... US, Israel and Iran agree to a 2-week ceasefire as Trump pulls back on his threats Iran, the United States and Israel reached a two-week ceasefire in the war that...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is scheduled to speak today with Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen after the Artemis II's historic mission to the moon. A media advisory from the Canadian Space Agency says Industry Minister Mélanie Joly will also tak...

OTTAWA - Advocates are calling for long-term, stable federal funding to safeguard Indigenous women and girls - and are warning the federal government's major projects push could place them at higher risk. Hilda Anderson-Pyrz, president of the National ...

OTTAWA - Thousands of Liberals will be in Montreal this weekend for the party's annual convention just as voters in the suburban riding of Terrebonne, about 40 km north, get ready to cast ballots in a key byelection on Monday. The nearby location is co...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Union of Public Employees says the federal government's probe into allegations of unpaid work in the airline sector is not taking workers' arguments seriously. Ottawa launched an investigation of the sector in August 2025, when ne...

VANCOUVER - Brandon Jansen's mother says he was a warm and inviting "health nut" who enjoyed time at the gym. He was also known for taking people under his wing at some of the 13 drug treatment facilities he attended in the two years before he died. O...

VANCOUVER - The 10 years of British Columbia's public health emergency due to drug overdoses has been marked by a catastrophic death toll, which now stands at more than 18,000. Here are some key dates in the crisis. April 14, 2016 British Columbia decl...

The federal government says the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal wrongfully awarded compensation to both complainants and witnesses who claimed discrimination by the RCMP in an investigation of historical sexual abuse allegations against a school teacher...

The federal government is spending $412.9 million over five years to renew the Pacific Salmon Strategy in a plan to protect and rebuild wild populations. Fisheries Minister Joanne Thompson made the announcement in North Vancouver Tuesday, saying in a ...

OTTAWA - Almost 38,000 people voted in the advance polls in three byelections that could give Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberals a majority government, with the highest advance turnout in Terrebonne. Preliminary data from Elections Canada says 18,2...

MONTREAL - Brique par brique, a non-profit that builds housing in Montreal, has been trying to develop more city-owned land for years, but the group says securing money for new projects is getting harder. Over the last decade, the City of Montreal has ...

MONTRÉAL - A Montreal community worker says she tried to help a 42-year-old undocumented migrant weeks before he died on the street in the Park Extension neighbourhood. Amina Saman works with a handful of community organizations that provide support a...

TORONTO - Foad Farhani was driving to work Tuesday morning when his wife called him in tears while reading U.S. President Donald Trump's post on Truth Social threatening the existence of their homeland. Trump wrote that a "whole civilization will die"...

OTTAWA - The federal government is looking at ways to support Canadians as oil prices rise amid the ongoing war in the Middle East, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday. Oil prices have surged since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28. The ...

OTTAWA - High-speed rail connecting Toronto and Quebec City would be a boon to the economy and job creation, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Tuesday, defending his government's project as opposition to it continues to grow. Much of the criticism com...

WASHINGTON - United States Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Tuesday that he doesn't expect negotiations on the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade to be resolved by July 1. "I think that we aren't probably going to be able to resolve all issu...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said leaders involved in the war in Iran must "choose their words" and act prudently, but didn't specifically criticize U.S. President Donald Trump for his recent inflammatory threats of potential American military a...

OTTAWA - The federal government will address infrastructure gaps across Canada with billions of dollars in funding over the coming decade, Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Tuesday at a news conference in Brampton, Ont. Carney used the event to break ...

QUÉBEC - Voting is open for members of the Coalition Avenir Québec to choose a new leader who will replace Premier François Legault. Christine Fréchette, a former economy minister, and Bernard Drainville, an ex-environment minister, are the only candid...

TORONTO - Survivors of forced or coerced sterilization - many of whom are Indigenous - are pushing for legislation that would explicitly criminalize the procedure, but several physician and legal groups worry the bill could lead doctors to hesitate whe...

OTTAWA - Almost a third of police probes involving members of foreign diplomatic missions in Canada in the last five years saw the subjects of the investigations leave the country before charges were laid or prosecuted. Documents obtained by The Canadi...

TORONTO - Anne Welch worked a physically demanding job at her local SPCA - lifting pets, cleaning kennels and walking dogs - until she retired at age 71. With the loss of that physical activity, coupled with an underactive thyroid, "the weight just st...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... 'Payoff day': Jenni Gibbons on watching Artemis II crew make lunar history Canadian astronaut Jenni Gibbons is already reflecting on her brief but gratifying time ...

EDMONTON - A court hearing began Tuesday for an Alberta First Nation's request to at least temporarily put on ice a petition to force a vote on whether the province should quit Canada. Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, as well as a handful of other First Nati...

The Artemis II mission has at times left Jenni Gibbons feeling tense - and tired. But the sometimes bated breath and fatigue aren't hindering the Calgary-born astronaut from taking in the historic mission from deep inside a NASA control room in Housto...

Eight years after the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash, the legacy of one junior hockey player continues with an annual reminder for Canadians to register as organ donors. Green Shirt Day is a national campaign rooted in the memory of 21-year-old Log...

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver-based firm that operates a mine site in Mexico where 10 workers were abducted in January says nine of them have been found dead. Vizsla Silver Corp. said in a statement on its website Monday that it is in contact with the family...