Canada

Legault tells auto board scandal inquiry he only learned of cost overruns in February

MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Franois Legault says he only learned about cost overruns at the province's auto insurance board in February 2025. Legault is testifying at a public inquiry examining how the ...

Sep 2, 2025

Ottawa sets 100-day timeline to fix CRA delays, service issues

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne says he wants to address headaches at the Canada Revenue Agency in 100 days. Champagne says in a letter to the chair of Parliament's finance commit...

Josh Hall Sep 2, 2025

Majority of Canadian youth have been bullied, child poverty on the rise: report

A new report released as students across the country return to school finds bullying, poverty and mental illness are on the rise among Canadian youth and urges action from policy-makers to improve the...

Josh Hall Sep 2, 2025

In the news today: Strike deadline passes for public service staff

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Strike deadline passes for public service staff The deadline has passed for possible strike action to begin in...

Sep 2, 2025

Quebec has turned down funds aimed at addressing systemic racism in the courts

MONTREAL - The Quebec government has turned down federal funding aimed at combating systemic racism in the criminal justice system, saying it doesn't agree with the program's approach. The federal gov...

Sep 2, 2025

Strike deadline passes for B.C. public service staff

VANCOUVER - The deadline has passed for possible strike action to begin in British Columbia by an array of public service workers that includes liquor store staff, community college instructors and mu...

Sep 2, 2025

CP NewsAlert: BCGEU says some of its members will begin walking picket lines Tuesday

VICTORIA - The British Columbia General Employees' Union says a portion of its members who work for the province's public service will begin walking picket lines Tuesday after the union issued 72-hour...

Sep 1, 2025

Housefather and other MPs issue call for action against rise of antisemitism

OTTAWA - Nearly a fifth of the Liberal caucus has issued a letter calling for more to be done to address a rise in antisemitism after a Jewish woman in her 70s was stabbed at an Ottawa grocery store. ...

Sep 1, 2025

'Mercy of politics': Canadian farmers weigh plans as Chinese tariff hits canola price

As Chinese tariffs on Canadian canola products continue to hamper the cash price of one of the country's most valuable crops, farming experts say producers have big decisions ahead of them. Market ana...

Sep 1, 2025

Labour vote splitting as Canada's political parties battle for workers' support

OTTAWA - A year ago, then-NDP leader Jagmeet Singh's Labour Day message to workers insisted that his party alone would stand shoulder-to-shoulder with working Canadians and the unions that work to pro...

Sep 1, 2025