Category Archives: Canada
CP NewsAlert: Poilievre is CP Newsmaker of the Year for second year in a row
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been chosen as The Canadian Press Newsmaker of the Year for 2024. It is the second time in a row news editors across the country placed Poilievre at t...
Dec 16, 2024
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland quits cabinet the day of fall economic statement
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has resigned from cabinet, the day she is set to present the fall economic statement. In a resignation letter, she says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offere...
Dec 16, 2024
In the news today: Canada Post operations to resume Tuesday: company
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Canada Post operations to resume Tuesday: company Mail will begin moving again on Tuesday as Canada Post emplo...
Dec 16, 2024
Byelection in Liberal B.C. riding of Cloverdale—Langley City is new test for Trudeau
LANGLEY, B.C. - Voters in the Liberal-held British Columbia riding of Cloverdale-Langley City go to the polls today to pick a new member of Parliament, in another test for Prime Minister Justin Trudea...
Dec 16, 2024
Canada's premiers meet in Toronto to talk tariffs, trade and health care
TORONTO - Canada's premiers are meeting in Toronto today, and cross-border trade is topping the agenda, on the heels of a tariff threat from U.S. president-elect Donald Trump. Trump is threatening to ...
Dec 16, 2024
How toxic impact of Mount Polley disaster filters through B.C. waters, 10 years later
Former Xatsull First Nation chief Bev Sellars recalls an emergency meeting after the Mount Polley Mine disaster, where elders were in tears as they thought of fish swimming through the toxic waste tha...
Dec 16, 2024
'Smoke and mirrors': Quebec residents feel abandoned after August flooding
MONTREAL - The Quebec government has made payments in less than 10 per cent of the nearly 10,000 claims it has received since the remnants of Hurricane Debby hit the province in August, causing severe...
Dec 16, 2024
Ottawa to unveil economic update detailing deficit, new border security package
OTTAWA - The Liberal government in Ottawa is set to unveil its fall economic update today, its first spending package since Donald Trump won the November presidential election. Ottawa is expected to b...
Dec 16, 2024
Justin Trudeau's cabinet meets ahead of FES; Fraser won't seek re-election
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is holding a cabinet meeting this morning ahead of the release of his government's fall economic statement. The meeting comes amid news that his federal Housing ...
Dec 16, 2024
Canada Post operations to resume on Tuesday, company says
OTTAWA - Mail will begin moving again on Tuesday as Canada Post employees return to work for the first time in more than a month after the federal government pushed to end the stoppage. Labour Ministe...
Dec 16, 2024