Canada

Canada Post hits pause on negotiations with union as May deadline nears

OTTAWA - Canada Post says it's pressing pause on negotiations with the union representing postal workers with a little over a week before the deadline to get a deal. The Crown corporation says the pas...

Sheldon Spackman May 14, 2025

New housing minister says he lacked tools to tackle homelessness as Vancouver mayor

OTTAWA - Canada's new housing minister says he didn't have the tools he needed to address housing affordability issues when he was mayor of Vancouver - the country's most expensive housing market. Gre...

May 14, 2025

CRTC kicks off CanCon hearing as big streamers cancel appearances

OTTAWA - The CRTC's hearing on defining Canadian content began Tuesday with Netflix, Paramount and Apple dropping off the schedule at the last minute. MPA-Canada, which represents a number of the big ...

May 14, 2025

Tory MP Jamil Jivani concerned there's no labour minister amid Trump's tariffs

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Jamil Jivani has written a letter to the new minister of jobs and families saying he is concerned that Prime Minister Mark Carney's cabinet does not include a minister of labo...

May 14, 2025

In the news today: PM meeting cabinet today; election reforms could remix regions

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Carney meeting with new cabinet today Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet with his new cabinet this morn...

May 14, 2025

No more blue wall, red wall: How electoral reform could stop regional election sweeps

OTTAWA - A change to Canada's electoral system would have delivered a very different House of Commons this year - one without the monolithic regional strongholds held by both major federal parties - a...

May 14, 2025

Prime Minister Carney holds his first meeting with new cabinet this morning

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to meet with his new cabinet this morning. The meeting is scheduled to take place at 10 a.m. on Parliament Hill. Carney shook up his cabinet Tuesday by movin...

May 14, 2025

Woman expected to face more questions from prosecutors in hockey players' trial

A woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by five former members of Canada's world junior hockey team is expected to face more questions from prosecutors today. Defence lawyers finished cross-exa...

May 14, 2025

B.C. opioid rules were to reduce overdoses. But they cut cancer patients' pain meds

Rule changes designed to reduce opioid overdose deaths in British Columbia in 2016 inadvertently harmed cancer and palliative-care patients by reducing their access to pain killers, a new study has fo...

May 14, 2025

Canadian youth struggle with making friends and bullying: UNICEF report

A global study from UNICEF suggests many Canadian kids are unhappy, with social struggles such as bullying and difficulty making friends among the sources of their anguish. UNICEF's 19th Report Card s...

May 13, 2025