EDMONTON - Alberta's premier says she welcomes diverse opinions in her caucus after a legislature member of her United Conservative Party opined a referendum on separation is good for the province. Danielle Smith also reiterated on her provincewide rad...

MONTRÉAL - A French-Palestinian member of the European Parliament says she was denied entry into Canada only days before she was scheduled to participate in conferences in Montreal. Rima Hassan wrote online that she was "prevented" from coming to Canad...

COUTTS - Amid the howling winds of the Sweet Grass Hills lies Border Road, a 14-kilometre ribbon of manicured gravel stretching between the United States and Canada. The shared road is on the Montana side, but Alberta maintains it. North of the road li...

WINNIPEG - Filmmaker Avi Lewis has been elected as the NDP's new leader, defeating his four rivals on the first ballot with nearly 40,000 votes, from almost 71,000 ballots cast. His victory signals a shift by the party towards unabashedly left-wing po...

WASHINGTON - Jenni Gibbons was always drawn to the stars. Now, the Calgary-born astronaut is set to take part in NASA's Artemis II mission, which will send humans to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. "So much of our life is enabled by ...

When Rose Kingdon started her broadcasting career more than 40 years ago, she recalled that it was "love at first on air light." And when she accepted a lifetime achievement award in 2023, she said she was grateful for the opportunity to "make great ra...

China is again denying claims of forced labour in the country as calls grow for Prime Minister Mark Carney to clarify Canada's stance on the issue amid fallout from comments made by Liberal MP Michael Ma that appeared to cast doubt on reported human ri...

It was supposed to be a joyful family reunion, but instead a British Columbia grandmother is stranded in China in a coma, her family unable to pay the hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring her home via air ambulance. Her family says Lilia Avoutova,...

LAVAL - The two candidates vying to replace François Legault as Coalition Avenir Québec leader and Quebec premier faced off over language and immigration in a heated final debate north of Montreal on Saturday. Bernard Drainville and Christine Fréchette...

WINNIPEG - The NDP leadership candidates made their last pitch to voters Saturday morning in a last-ditch effort to win support from the handful of members who have not voted yet. Many of the roughly 1,800 attendees at the Winnipeg convention have alr...

WINNIPEG - The next NDP leader will be announced on Sunday. There are five candidates on the ballot and voting concludes Saturday. Here's a quick look at the candidates and how the last six months have gone for them. Avi Lewis Work: Lewis is a document...

OTTAWA - Gender-equality activists say a Toronto woman who was killed this month after decades pushing for women's rights in her native Iraq would not want Canadians to give up the fight for equality. Toronto resident Yanar Mohammed opened the first wo...

VANCOUVER - BC Hydro says it's relocating and repurposing the majority of its work camp for building the Site C hydroelectric dam to support the construction of the North Coast Transmission Line project, as its construction will begin this summer. A s...

OTTAWA - The federal government has launched a trade inquiry on global imports of frozen and canned vegetables. A statement from the Department of Finance says the government sought the inquiry in response to a request from the Canadian Association of ...

VICTORIA - A University of British Columbia political analyst says calls for the resignation of Independent MLA Hon Chan are appropriate, after the legislator was charged this week in relation to an alleged incident of intimate partner violence in 2024...

EDMONTON - Premier Danielle Smith's parliamentary secretary for constitutional affairs is encouraging Albertans to sign a petition that calls for a vote on separation from Canada. Jason Stephan, a United Conservative Party legislature member, penned hi...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is supporting a ruling this week by the International Olympic Committee that bans transgender women from women's sports at the Games. The policy change comes ahead of the next Olympics in Los Angeles in 202...

VERNON - A man in Vernon, B.C., has been charged with bestiality after he was allegedly captured on security cameras trespassing on a rural property occupied by a horse jumping and training business in January. Court records show the man is due in cou...

OTTAWA - Public servants who are eligible for the federal government's early retirement incentive can now apply for it after waiting months for the program's launch. The program - part of the government's efforts to cut the number of public servants - ...

Canada's national lawyers group has rebuked a call from four premiers for Ottawa to overhaul how it appoints provincial superior court and appeal judges. The premiers of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec wrote this week in a letter to Prime Min...

OTTAWA - Energy Minister Tim Hodgson said Friday the federal government is opposed to forced labour, a day after another Liberal MP cast doubt on China's labour practices. On Thursday, MP Michael Ma apologized after appearing to question reports of hum...

MONTREAL - The Quebec Superior Court has authorized a class-action lawsuit against Uber that accuses the San Francisco-based company of violating the province's Consumer Protection Act with its cancellation fees. Lawyers for the main plaintiff, Valeri...

MONTREAL - Police are searching for a man who fell through the ice on Thursday in the Prairies River in Montreal. They say two young men were walking on the frozen surface of the river in Montreal's Île-Bizard-Sainte-Geneviève borough when the ice gave...

OTTAWA - The federal government posted a budgetary deficit of $31.21 billion for the April-to-January period of its 2025-26 fiscal year. In its monthly fiscal monitor, the Finance Department says the result compared with a deficit of $26.85 billion rep...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney's first budget bill is now law, marking a milestone for the minority Liberal government. The budget implementation act, Bill C-15, received royal assent Thursday evening after the Senate gave its final sign-off on th...

OTTAWA - Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson is doling out $28.9 million in funding for a series of carbon capture and renewable energy projects across Canada today. The money is coming from Canada's Energy Innovation Program, which the federal gove...

OTTAWA - The results in the Montreal-area riding of Terrebonne in the April 13 byelection will have major implications on moving bills forward in the House of Commons. The vote is one of three byelections to be held on the same day. The two others are ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Canada met two per cent spending pledge: NATO For the first time since the end of the Cold War, Canada is spending roughly two per cent of its GDP on national defe...