Canada

B.C. minister who resigned over Mideast comments received death threat, premier says

VICTORIA - British Columbia's premier says Selina Robinson, who resigned as post-secondary education minister recently over Mideast comments, has received a death threat. David Eby called the action i...

Feb 9, 2024

Federal government signs $3.1-billion health accord deal with Ontario

OTTAWA - Ontario Premier Doug Ford signed a $3.1-billion deal with Ottawa to improve access to primary health care. Ontario is the fifth province to sign on for its share of the $200-billion health ac...

Feb 9, 2024

CP NewsAlert: Supreme Court upholds Ottawa's Indigenous child welfare act

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that the federal government's 2019 Indigenous child welfare act is constitutional, affirming that First Nations Peoples have sole authority over the prot...

Feb 9, 2024

In the news for today: StatCan to report on job numbers, more Canadians are using AI

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... StatCan to release January jobs report Statistics Canada is set to release Janu...

Feb 9, 2024

London, Ont., police chief's apology a good step but missing key elements: experts

TORONTO - A southwestern Ontario police chief's apology this week for the time it took to lay sexual assault charges against five professional hockey players marked an important step in acknowledging ...

Feb 9, 2024

Progressive, LGBTQ+ groups excluded from Vancouver Chinatown's Lunar New Year parade

VANCOUVER - Progressive and LGBTQ+ groups say they've been excluded from Vancouver's Lunar New Year parade in Chinatown this weekend, with one of their representatives saying they were told it was bec...

Feb 9, 2024

More Canadians using AI tools, despite ‘deep-rooted’ fears about the tech: poll

OTTAWA - Despite worries artificial intelligence lacks empathy and could be coming to steal their jobs, a growing number of Canadians are turning to AI tools, a new poll suggests. Thirty per cent of C...

Feb 9, 2024

Push to change national bar association's position on assisted dying expansion fails

OTTAWA - The Canadian Bar Association has voted to maintain its support for expanding assisted dying eligibility to people whose sole condition is a mental illness. Lawyers belonging to the national a...

Feb 8, 2024

Grieving parents said they were told to pay $200 to meet Quebec minister

QUEBEC - The parents of a woman who was killed in a car crash say the Coalition Avenir Qubec party offered access to the provincial transport minister for $100 per person. Antoine Bittar and lizabeth ...

Feb 8, 2024

Poilievre pledges to fix broken access-to-information system, release more faster

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is pledging to fix the federal access-to-information system to speed up response times and release more information. He made the commitment speaking to re...

Feb 8, 2024