Canada

New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh, wife Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu welcome second baby girl

TORONTO - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and his wife, Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu, are the proud parents of their second baby girl. Party officials say the baby is healthy and doing well, as is her mother. The bab...

Dec 14, 2023

Fergus should stay as Speaker, pay a fine for controversial video: committee

OTTAWA - A House of Commons committee says Greg Fergus should stay in his job as Speaker, but he should apologize again and reimburse Parliament for using its resources to make a video that was shown ...

Dec 14, 2023

CP NewsAlert: Quebec hikes tuition for McGill, Concordia, imposes French requirement

MONTREAL - The Quebec government is hiking tuition to $12,000 a year and imposing a French-language requirement for out-of-province students at McGill and Concordia universities. Higher Education Mini...

Dec 14, 2023

In the news today: Liberal caucus divided after UN vote for ceasefire in Gaza

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... UN vote for Gaza ceasefire disappoints Israel's ambassador, divides Liberal cau...

Dec 14, 2023

Hierarchical police, military and CSIS in need of harassment reckoning: professor

VANCOUVER - Bonnie Robichaud's ordeal started in the late 1970s when she got a unionized job as a cleaner on a military base in Ontario, and a Department of National Defence employee began sexually ha...

Dec 14, 2023

CSIS to hire impartial reviewer as part of human rights settlement with Black officer

OTTAWA - Canada's spy service has agreed to hire an independent human rights specialist to review its diversity strategy as part of the settlement of a complaint from a Black woman who worked as an in...

Dec 14, 2023

'Damaging': Saskatchewan high school rejects author's talk on son coming out as gay

REGINA - Ruby Remenda Swanson says she never thought her hometown high school would be the only place to bar her from sharing her family's story. Remenda Swanson says she's been to dozens of places in...

Dec 14, 2023

How Canada's UN vote breaks with long-standing policy — and what Israel says about it

OTTAWA - Canada shifted its long-standing stance at the United Nationsto join international calls for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas on Tuesday. It marked a departure from years of Ca...

Dec 13, 2023

French actor Gérard Depardieu stripped of Order of Quebec after documentary remarks

QUEBEC - The Quebec government has stripped French actor Grard Depardieu of his Order of Quebec after "shocking" comments made by the actor came to light in a documentary film The release of a documen...

Dec 13, 2023

Canadian cities report rise in homelessness and in tent fires as winter sets in

HALIFAX - Cities across Canada are reporting a rise in fires, sometimes deadly, in tents and other shelters used by unhoused people - a situation advocates say is a tragic consequence of the country's...

Dec 13, 2023