Canada

Rainy, warm weather leads to flooding, school closures in parts of Quebec

MONTREAL - Record warm weather has sent several Quebec rivers spilling over their banks, leading to school and road closures and voluntary evacuation notices in some parts of the province. In Beaucevi...

Mar 17, 2025

Marathon Vancouver airport hotel strike ends after 1,411 days

RICHMOND, B.C. - The union representing workers at the Radisson Blu Vancouver Airport Hotel says staff have ratified a new collective agreement, ending a nearly four-year-long strike. Unite Here Local...

Mar 17, 2025

Court finds stabbing at UWaterloo was not terrorism but was hate crime

An Ontario court has found that a stabbing at a University of Waterloo gender studies class was not terrorism but constituted a "particularly grave" hate crime. The judge sentencing Geovanny Villalba-...

Mar 17, 2025

Poilievre says he'll repeal carbon price law, including the industrial charge

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says that he will repeal the entire carbon price law if elected, including on businesses and the industrial charge. On Friday, Prime Minister Mark Carney ...

Mar 17, 2025

Prime Minister Carney kicks off international trip in France

PARIS - Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada must strengthen ties with France and other allies in the face of geopolitical and economic crises. Making opening remarks in Paris before a meeting with ...

Sheldon Spackman Mar 17, 2025

In the news today: Mark Carney’s move to kill carbon price now official

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Carney's move to kill carbon price now official but debate over it not dead Prime Minister Mark Carney's theat...

Mar 17, 2025

Quebec byelection: electors head to polls in Terrebonne riding northeast of Montreal

MONTREAL - Voters will go to the polls today in a riding northeast of Montreal to replace former economy minister Pierre Fitzgibbon. The former high-profile cabinet minister in Franois Legault's Coali...

Mar 17, 2025

Polytechnique Montréal receives $50 million gift to create disruptive innovation hub

MONTREAL - A Quebec-born businessman and philanthropist who is donating $50 million to a Montreal university to establish an institute dedicated to "disruptive innovation" says it has never been more ...

Mar 17, 2025

Canadians in several cities join 'Tesla Takedown' protests against Musk, Trump

SURREY, B.C. - Canadians in several cities have joined a series of "Tesla Takedown" protests happening across the United States and parts of Europe. Protesters say they have been moved to act by Tesla...

Mar 16, 2025

Carney heading to Europe for first foreign trip since becoming prime minister

OTTAWA - Mark Carney will be departing for his first foreign trip on Sunday, set to visit France and the U.K., with an additional stop in Iqaluit, Nvt., during a whirlwind three-day jaunt. The aim of ...

Mar 16, 2025