Canada

Poilievre's proposed incentives for First Nations water, resource projects draw fire

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he would incentivize First Nations to support natural-resource projects through industry taxes and revisiting how much sway Indigenous Peoples and en...

Feb 20, 2025

B.C. Conservative MLA says drug crisis cost lives of her brothers, niece and nephew

VICTORIA - The House Leader of the Opposition B.C. Conservatives has described the "unsurmountable" personal impact of the toxic drug crisis, which she says claimed the lives of two of her brothers, a...

Feb 20, 2025

Pakistani national accused in NYC terror plot against Jews agrees to extradition

MONTREAL - A Pakistani national from Ontario wanted in the U.S. on terror-related charges for allegedly targeting Jewish institutions in New York City has agreed to be extradited. During a brief Super...

Feb 20, 2025

Frank Baylis says Trudeau, premiers made 'mistakes' dealing with Trump

OTTAWA - Liberal leadership hopeful Frank Baylis says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Canada's premiers have been dealing with President Donald Trump's trade threats all wrong. He says they have mad...

Feb 20, 2025

Prince Edward Island Premier Dennis King announces he will resign on Friday

CHARLOTTETOWN - Prince Edward Island Premier Dennis King says he will resign as premier and leader of the Progressive Conservative party effective Friday at noon. King, 53, told reporters today that h...

Feb 20, 2025

Montreal police open homicide investigation after man, 20, shot in upper body

MONTREAL - Montreal police say a 20-year-old man is the city's latest homicide victim. The man was shot Wednesday night and was discovered around 9 p.m. when police received a 911 call about a man lyi...

Feb 20, 2025

The federal government must revisit its approval of a popular weed-killer, court says

OTTAWA - The federal government has been ordered to reassess its 2022 approval of a popular weed-killer after a Federal Court judge ruled this week the original approval was unreasonable. In a decisio...

Feb 20, 2025

CP NewsAlert: Federal government lists criminal organizations as terrorist entities

OTTAWA - The federal government says several transnational criminal organizations are being listed as terrorist entities under the Criminal Code to fight fentanyl trafficking. More coming. Jim Bronski...

Feb 20, 2025

Heritage minister proposes banning ads from CBC news programming

OTTAWA - The outgoing federal heritage minister says she wants to bar CBC/Radio-Canada from running ads during news programming and from charging subscription fees for digital products such as CBC Gem...

Feb 20, 2025

Boy charged with murder in quadruple homicide on Saskatchewan First Nation

REGINA - A 15-year-old boy is facing first-degree murder charges in the shooting deaths of four people on a First Nation in southern Saskatchewan. The teen cannot be identified due to the Youth Crimin...

Feb 20, 2025