Category Archives: Canada
Health ministers say Ottawa needs to renew mental health, home care funding
OTTAWA - Health ministers from across the country say they're worried about "profound and negative" effects on patients and health-care jobs if federal funding agreements for mental health, addictions...
Oct 1, 2026
A timeline for Pacific Link, the 'national interest' Alberta-B.C. pipeline plan
CALGARY - A new million-barrel-per-day oilsands pipeline to the West Coast is the first to be deemed a project of national interest - a key step if the proposal is to advance. Prime Minister Mark Carn...
Oct 1, 2026
Indigenous groups given just two months to consult on pipeline project designation
OTTAWA - Indigenous communities along the route for the newly announced West Coast oil pipeline were given just two months for consultations on whether the pipeline should be designated a project of n...
Oct 1, 2026
How has medical understanding of 'shaken baby syndrome' evolved?
TORONTO - An Ontario mother's acquittal in the death of her infant son is the latest display of medical evidence of shaken baby syndrome discredited in the courtroom. Jennifer Gaskin had been convicte...
Oct 1, 2026
Here's a look at the ridings where voters can expect federal byelections soon
OTTAWA - Voters in a number of ridings across the country will choose new federal representatives in the coming weeks and months after members of Parliament from four major parties quit the House of C...
Oct 1, 2026
Budget watchdog says Alto rail construction could cost more than Ottawa predicts
OTTAWA - The federal budget watchdog is warning construction of a high-speed rail line between Toronto and Qubec City could cost more than Ottawa's initial estimate. The Office of the Parliamentary Bu...
Oct 1, 2026
AI agent attempted to hack Library and Archives Canada, says U.S. research group
OTTAWA - The website for Library and Archives Canada was one of the targets of a failed hacking attempt by an artificial intelligence agent, a San Francisco-based lab that monitors AI activity said in...
Oct 1, 2026
In the news today: pipeline announcement, minimum wage hikes, Canadian goes to space
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Carney expected to announce decision on pipeline's national interest designation Prime Minister Mark Carney i...
Oct 1, 2026
Canadian astronaut reaches International Space Station for six-month mission
MERRITT ISLAND - Canadian astronaut Joshua Kutryk's first thought after being told Thursday he had made it to space was one of disbelief. "I don't really believe it yet," Kutryk said after being told ...
Oct 1, 2026
Tsawwassen First Nation mourns 'pillars' killed in Delta, B.C. crash
Family members of two Tsawwassen First Nation elders killed in a collision outside a shopping centre in Delta, B.C., on Wednesday say the women were "cultural pillars" of their community. Statements s...
Oct 1, 2026