Canada

Number of female Canadian soldiers on UN peacekeeping missions craters

OTTAWA - Canada only has two women from the military deployed on United Nations peacekeeping missions right now, raising concerns Ottawa is failing to lead by example and may be called out by the inte...

Aug 24, 2025

CP NewsAlert: Carney travels to Kyiv in show of support for Ukraine

KYIV - Prime Minister Mark Carney has travelled to Ukraine where he is expected to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Carney is in Kyiv as a special guest of Zelenskyy on Ukraine's Independence ...

Aug 23, 2025

Settlement reached in national class-action lawsuit over drug Rexulti: law firm

MONTREAL - Lawyers involved in a class-action lawsuit over the drug Rexulti say a $4.75 million settlement has been reached on behalf of patients and the estates and families of those who were prescri...

Aug 23, 2025

CP NewsAlert: Carney lands in Poland, kicking off mission to deepen European ties

WARSAW - Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Europe as part of a broader effort to deepen ties with allies there. Carney's plane left Ottawa early Saturday headed to Poland for his fourth European trip s...

Aug 23, 2025

Parole Board details B.C. sex offender's 'pattern' of breaching court conditions

VANCOUVER - The Parole Board of Canada says convicted sex offender Randall Hopley remains an "undue risk to society" after the B.C. man left a halfway house in May the day he was released from prison....

Aug 23, 2025

Quebec college facing $30M fine over English student enrolment postpones 1st day

MONTREAL - A Quebec college facing a $30-million fine for enrolling too many students in English-language programs is suspending the first day of classes on Monday. LaSalle College says in a statement...

Aug 23, 2025

Firefighting efforts continue in Atlantic Canada as large storm passes offshore

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's Department of Natural Resources says a large wildfire in the Annapolis Valley remains out of control and is still estimated at more than 32 square kilometres in size. In a soci...

Aug 23, 2025

Minister's office reviewing tribunal order on First Nations child welfare

OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty's office says she is reviewing a Canadian Human Rights Tribunal order for parties involved in a decade-long First Nations child welfare case to r...

Aug 23, 2025

When heat and drought stress trees, the consequences can be tragic

Sometimes it happens without any more warning than the sound of cracking. A tree physiologist said that several years of repeated drought in British Columbia mixed with heat stress increased the likel...

Aug 23, 2025

For trappers, the land is their office — wildfires have them bracing for the worst

WINNIPEG - Some trappers are expecting "catastrophic losses" to their food and financial security this year, as Canada's second-worst wildfire season on record sent swaths of remote boreal forest up i...

Aug 23, 2025