Canada

Court to hear appeal arguments over challenge to Saskatchewan's pronoun law

REGINA - Saskatchewan's Appeal Court is set to hear arguments over the next two days about a provincial law that requires parental consent when children under 16 want to change their names or pronouns...

Sep 23, 2024

Early days of B.C. campaign sees NDP, Conservatives trade barbs over housing, drugs

VANCOUVER - Drug policy and housing shortages are emerging as the top issues early in British Columbia's election campaign. New Democrat Leader David Eby and B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad spent...

Sep 23, 2024

Trudeau to meet with Haiti's acting prime minister in New York

NEW YORK - Justin Trudeau will turn his focus to the ongoing crises in Haiti as he speaks with some world leaders Monday ahead of the 78th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. The prime min...

Sep 23, 2024

CP NewsAlert: Missing 6-year-old B.C. girl found safe near Burns Lake

BURNS LAKE, B.C. - A 6-year-old girl who had been missing from her community in north-central British Columbia since Thursday has been found safe. Resources from across the province were enlisted in t...

Sep 22, 2024

Trudeau to be guest on 'The Late Show with Stephen Colbert' during New York visit

NEW YORK - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will appear as a guest on CBS's "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on Monday. Trudeau's official itinerary says the interview will be shot during his trip to...

Sep 22, 2024

New seats redrew B.C. legislature's floor plan. They bring political calculations too

VANCOUVER - Work crews have been busy in the British Columbia legislature over the summer, prying apart desks in the historic chamber and piling them up in hallways as they tried to work out how to fi...

Sep 22, 2024

A look at the new districts in B.C.'s fall election as legislature grows to 93 seats

The Oct. 19 election in British Columbia will feature new electoral districts that increase the number of seats in the legislature from 87 to 93. Here is a look at some of the new seats: Vancouver The...

Sep 22, 2024

Trudeau to attend United Nations General Assembly amid turbulence around the world

NEW YORK - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to be in New York this week for the 78th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly and the Summit of the Future amid increasing geopolitical instab...

Sep 22, 2024

City of Montreal, insurers question future of basement apartments after floods

MONTREAL - Pasquale Monaco says he's debating whether to keep renting out the two-bedroom basement apartment of the Montreal building he owns after it was flooded - again - in August, when the remnant...

Sep 22, 2024

Day 2 of B.C. election campaign sees Conservatives and New Democrats in Metro area

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's New Democrats and the B.C. Conservatives are set to take their election tours to Metro Vancouver cities today as the campaign enters its second day. John Rustad's B.C. C...

Sep 22, 2024