Canada

In the news today: Party leaders campaigning in Quebec today, job numbers due

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Federal party leaders are campaigning in Quebec today Party leaders will be in Quebec today as the second week...

Apr 4, 2025

StatCan's March jobs figures to give glimpse at tariff hit to labour market

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is expected to release employment figures for March today. Economists polled by Reuters expect a gain of 10,000 jobs in the month, and for the unemployment rate to rise by a...

Apr 4, 2025

Nuclear waste agency looking for Canada's second deep geological repository

TORONTO - An organization tasked with managing Canada's nuclear waste found one site to store millions of bundles of radioactive used fuel for thousands of years hundreds of metres underground - and n...

Apr 4, 2025

Federal party leaders are campaigning in Quebec today

OTTAWA - Party leaders will be in Quebec today as the second week of the federal election campaign comes to a close. Leader of the Conservative Party Pierre Poilievre will hold a press conference in T...

Apr 4, 2025

Yukon targets Elon Musk's companies in response to U.S. tariffs

The Yukon government says it's ending rebates for all Tesla products, as it targets companies associated with tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, who is also a senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump. ...

Apr 3, 2025

Judge scraps 'unintelligible' order to free self-professed hitman claiming asylum

OTTAWA - A Federal Court judge has ordered that a self-described hitman associated with a Mexican drug cartel remain in custody, throwing out a refugee board member's ruling that he be released pendin...

Apr 3, 2025

High anxiety over softwood lumber despite tone change from U.S.: B.C. premier

British Columbia's premier says he is encouraged to see a shifting tone in U.S. President Donald Trump's talks with Canada, but concerns remain about how tariffs could devastate the province's softwoo...

Apr 3, 2025

U-Vic's overdose polices didn't 'meet the moment' before student's death: report

VICTORIA - There were several points at which a University of Victoria student could have been saved before she died of a drug overdose last year, but instead a report says she didn't get the naloxone...

Apr 3, 2025

Bill 40: Court of Appeal sides with English boards over Quebec government reforms

MONTREAL - Quebec's Court of Appeal has upheld a lower-court ruling that found a provincial law abolishing school boards violated English-language minority education rights. The Quebec English School ...

Apr 3, 2025

Judge finds Ottawa man guilty on terror, hate charges related to neo-Nazi propaganda

OTTAWA - A Superior Court judge has found Ottawa-area graphic designer Patrick Macdonald guilty on three counts of terror and hate-related charges related to the production of antisemitic propaganda f...

Apr 3, 2025