Canada

Ottawa police to provide details on man who barricaded himself inside East Block

OTTAWA - Questions remain for Ottawa police this morning after a late-night arrest of a man who barricaded himself in Parliament Hill's East Block on Saturday. Ottawa police say they arrested the man ...

Apr 6, 2025

Top leaders finish second week of election campaign

Federal party leaders are prepared to finish the second week of the federal election campaign with events in Nova Scotia and British Columbia. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh is scheduled to make an announce...

Apr 6, 2025

B.C. Premier to meet with Mark Carney over the soaring lumber duties imposed by U.S.

VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby says he will meet with Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday to discuss launching a Team Canada approach to support workers in the forestry sector in respo...

Apr 5, 2025

CP NewsAlert: Parliamentary Protective Service warns of lockdown for East Block

OTTAWA - The Parliamentary Protective Service says there's a lockdown in place on Parliament Hill. The service issued a warning on Saturday afternoon for anyone in East Block, which houses parliamenta...

Apr 5, 2025

Five years without answers for family of Canadian businessman held in Chinese jail

VANCOUVER - Wang Yan vividly recalls the last time she heard her husband's voice, more than five years ago. It was Dec. 13, 2019, and Canadian citizen Li Yonghui had gone to a public square in Shijiaz...

Apr 5, 2025

'We are not the gods': Fire-torn Jasper prepares for diminished summer tourism season

JASPER, ALTA. - Every summer for 61 years, tourists have piled onto Jasper's SkyTram to see the boomerang-shaped town nestled inside the sprawling Rocky Mountains. It'll happen again this summer, but ...

Apr 5, 2025

Caught in the crossfire: Michigan concerned over automobile tariffs targeting Canada

DETROIT - Glenn Stevens Jr. can look out his office window in downtown Detroit and see Canada. The view encapsulates historic automobile achievement between two countries despite a flowing river and i...

Apr 5, 2025

Federal leaders set to campaign across the country today

OTTAWA - Federal party leaders are starting the second full weekend of the federal election campaign at opposite ends of the country. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is in B.C. while NDP Leader J...

Apr 5, 2025

Quebec's high court rejects random police stops ahead of Supreme Court hearing

MONTREAL - Quebec's Court of Appeal has refused the provincial government's request to allow arbitrary police traffic stops to continue until a legal challenge of the practice is heard by the Supreme ...

Apr 4, 2025

Recruiters say surge in U.S. doctors looking to move to Canada since Trump election

HALIFAX - Recruiters say there's been a surge of interest from American doctors considering moving to Canada since the election of U.S. president Donald Trump in November. Katrina Philopoulos, recruit...

Apr 4, 2025