Canada

Prime Minister Mark Carney set to host meeting with Canada's premiers Friday

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is hosting a meeting with Canada's premiers on Friday. The prime minister's office and the office of Ontario Premier Doug Ford confirmed details of the meeting. It ...

Mar 18, 2025

CP NewsAlert: Vancouver International Auto Show removes Tesla from event over safety

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver International Auto Show says it has removed Tesla from participating in this week's event over safety concerns. Executive Director Eric Nicholl says the show asked the electr...

Mar 18, 2025

Conservatives say there will be no media seats on Poilievre's election campaign

OTTAWA - The Conservative party is breaking from tradition and will not be allowing media onboard planes and buses for Pierre Poilievre's election campaign. In an email Tuesday, national campaign dire...

Mar 18, 2025

B.C. geoduck exports facing possible devastation as Chinese tariffs loom

VANCOUVER - British Columbia seafood producers are bracing for impact as China is slated to impose 25-per-cent tariffs on geoduck clams, a move that could devastate the multimillion-dollar export indu...

Mar 18, 2025

Mountain biking groups 'stretched thin' with trail work as popularity grows

VANCOUVER - The outdoors were a refuge for many during the pandemic as people hit their local trail networks to mountain bike, hike, run and walk, but advocates in British Columbia say the value of tr...

Mar 18, 2025

Liberals lagging well behind other parties on nominating candidates as election looms

OTTAWA - With a federal election call expected any day now, the Liberal party is trailing well behind its rivals on nominating candidates. The Conservatives have nominated 275 candidates out of 343 ri...

Mar 18, 2025

Axworthy calls on Poland, Baltic states to abide by treaty banning landmines

OTTAWA - Former foreign affairs minister Lloyd Axworthy says Canada should work to convince eastern European countries alarmed by Russian aggression to abide by a treaty banning the use of anti-person...

Mar 18, 2025

List of nominations announced by the National Newspaper Awards

TORONTO - Finalists for the National Newspaper Awards include four nominations for the national news agency The Canadian Press/La Presse Canadienne. Here's look at the categories and contenders: ARTS ...

Mar 18, 2025

Carney hopes recovering remains from Winnipeg landfill bring families closure

IQALUIT - Prime Minister Mark Carney says he hopes recovering the remains of two First Nations women murdered by a serial killer from a Manitoba landfill brings closure to their families. RCMP have co...

Mar 18, 2025

Ford says energy surcharge remains on table but he won't 'antagonize' U.S. in talks

TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he is keeping the possibility of reintroducing a surcharge on electricity exported to the United States in his back pocket, but for now he doesn't want to "ant...

Mar 18, 2025