TOKYO - While there should be "debate" in Canada about a social media ban for children, Prime Minister Mark Carney says he has not made up his own mind on the issue yet. "I think this is something that merits an open and considered debate in Canada," h...

TOKYO - Prime Minister Mark Carney says Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should be removed from the royal line of succession for his "deplorable" actions. Speaking to reporters in Tokyo, Carney says the actions that have caused him to be stripped of his roya...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Customs and Border Protection will not be able to immediately begin issuing refunds for President Donald Trump's tariffs that were struck down by the Supreme Court. In a filing to court Friday, Brandon Lord, a senior official in U.S. ...

ABBOTSFORD - A prosecutor says three men accused of murdering an Abbotsford, B.C., couple kept a bat used to bludgeon one of the victims to death, displaying it with "pride" in videos recorded months later. The B.C. Supreme Court in Abbotsford was sho...

VANCOUVER - A forensic expert has told a hearing into the 2015 police-involved death of Myles Gray that not much could be concluded from a toxicology report regarding his behaviour, that Vancouver officers have previously described as "animalistic" and...

VICTORIA - The Tumbler Ridge and Prince George chambers of commerce in B.C. are urging Ottawa and the provincial government to ban children under 16 from using AI tools and social media. Jerrilyn Kirk, executive director of the Tumbler Ridge chamber, s...

EDMONTON - Ottawa and Alberta have reached a prospective deal that they say will see major projects be approved more efficiently. In a joint announcement Friday, the two governments said the deal will bring a "one project, one review" approach to addre...

MONTREAL - Quebec's Superior Court heard arguments Friday in a case about a high school teacher who alleges her Charter rights were violated when she was ordered to hide a student's gender identity from their parents. The teacher, identified only thro...

OTTAWA - Analysts are warning the conflict in the Middle East could drive up costs across Canada's supply chains and compound price pressures at the grocery store. Global oil prices have risen sharply in recent days as Israeli and U.S. attacks on Iran ...

WASHINGTON - Canada's new chief trade negotiator to the United States met her American counterpart in Washington on Friday as Ottawa sought to steady the bilateral relationship ahead of a review of the critical continental trade pact. Janice Charette w...

OTTAWA - The United States and Israel do not have a "blank cheque" in their bombing campaign in Iran and are still bound by international law, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand said Friday as the war approached the seven-day mark. "International law...

OTTAWA - Quebec discriminated against female refugee claimants by introducing regulations that denied them access to subsidized daycare spaces, Canada's highest court said on Friday, leading to strong rebukes from members of the provincial government. ...

There was tangible relief among Canadians who landed Friday morning in Toronto on a flight from Dubai, as an escalating conflict in the Middle East causes travel chaos that has included thousands of flight cancellations. Returning travellers described ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Canada signs defence, trade pact with Japan Canada and Japan have signed a new strategic partnership agreement that aims to boost co-operation on defence, energy,...

MONTREAL - Two women testified on Friday to experiencing alleged inappropriate behaviour from Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet, including one who told the court she felt like a "prisoner" during a 1992 encounter. Marie-Louise Moreau testified that Ouellet ...

OTTAWA - Ottawa real estate watchers are calling on the federal government to be more clear about its workspace needs as public servants prepare to spend more time in the office. Landlords and office brokers want to know whether the federal government ...

TORONTO - Frank Stronach will eventually be found not guilty on some of the charges he faces, an Ontario judge suggested Friday as the billionaire businessman's sexual assault trial continues in Toronto. Ontario Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy indic...

TOKYO - Canada and Japan have signed a new strategic partnership agreement that looks to boost co-operation on defence, energy, trade and technology. Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo on Friday to discuss closer...

BRISBANE - A young woman from British Columbia drowned when she was attacked by a pack of dingoes at a famed tourist destination in Australia, a coroner has determined. Piper James, 19, was on a backpacking trip and was working on the island of K'Gari ...

The killer of British Columbia teenager Reena Virk has lost an appeal over the cancellation of her day parole last year following a positive drug test result. A decision of Parole Board of Canada's appeal division says Kerry Sim, known as Kelly Ellard ...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said he has "serious" reservations about Prime Minister Mark Carney's suggestion for a new parliamentary budget officer and is calling for the latest interim watchdog to get the job. He suggested that he h...

VANCOUVER - A paramedic testifying at a public hearing into the 2015 death of Myles Gray says he had trouble intubating the man and was told by a Vancouver officer that police had used batons and a "lateral neck restraint" as they tried to make an arre...

VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has agreed to apologize to the people of Tumbler Ridge after the mass shooting by a user of the firm's technology, whose worrisome online behaviour wasn't flagged to police by the...

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver-based Christian charity founded by a wealthy businessman has filed a constitutional challenge in B.C. Supreme Court, claiming the Canada Revenue Agency has no right to revoke its charitable status. The Coram Deo Foundation, fou...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is headed to Japan for a brief visit to one of Canada's closest partner countries as he wraps up a trip across the Indo-Pacific. "The trip is long overdue, given how significant Japan is as a partner for us in the re...

MONTREAL - The major crimes unit of the Montreal police force has caught Canada's most-wanted fugitive. Montreal police say they arrested Bryan Fuentes Gramajo at around 2:40 a.m. in the Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie borough. The 24-year-old Montreal nativ...

VICTORIA - Workers in B.C.'s softwood lumber industry and those in other sectors who have lost their jobs because of U.S. tariffs will benefit from almost $71 million in funding for retraining. Federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu and Sheila Malcolmson, t...

GATINEAU - An investigation by the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has found that Loblaw took too long to address requests from customers who wanted to delete their PC Optimum accounts. The office on Thursday said Loblaw had the mechanism to respond to ...