TORONTO - A new study says the COVID-19 vaccine protects pregnant women from getting severely ill or giving birth prematurely. Researchers led by the University of British Columbia analyzed data on almost 20,000 pregnant people infected with COVID betw...

TORONTO - A rabbi killed in the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia is being remembered by family members in Toronto for his positivity and commitment to bringing Judaism to others. Rabbi Eli Schlanger was one of at least 15 people ki...

Public health says three children have died from influenza-related complications in Ottawa and eastern Ontario over the last two weeks. Ottawa and Eastern Ontario Health Unit medical officers of health say the children were between the ages of five and...

A new international study suggests thousands of glaciers across Canada's Arctic could be saved from total extinction if humanity can bend the curve on global warming. Yet, the study offers a grim outlook for the world's glaciers, suggesting close to 8...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says Prime Minister Mark Carney's government is practising "counterfeit Conservatism." Poilievre says while Carney likes to copy his ideas - ending the consumer carbon price, for example - his government wo...

OTTAWA - A federal minister dropped hints about more floor crossings Monday following the defection of Ontario MP Michael Ma to the Liberals last week. When asked whether more opposition MPs are getting ready to cross the floor to join the government, ...

OTTAWA - Natural Resource Minister Tim Hodgson says he'll launch a task force early in the new year to look at ways to ensure the long-term health of the softwood lumber industry. Speaking in Toronto, Hodgson says the group will bring recommendations f...

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in November, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated widely because they are based on small statistical samples (pr...

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in November, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrador: 2.2 per cent (2.0) - Prince Edward Island: 1.4 per cent (1.4)...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... 'High impact' warning as heavy rains forecast to cause more flooding in B.C. The B.C. government says heavy rains in the forecast may cause more flooding in low-ly...

MONTREAL - Joshua Bujold, an upbeat psychology student in his first semester at Montreal's Dawson College, was taken aback to find out that happiness among young Canadians has plunged. Outside Quebec, that is. Bujold's home province is an outlier among...

TORONTO - For years, Stéphane Cliche was a healthy avid athlete, but he kept getting sinus and respiratory infections and doctors couldn't figure out why. It wasn't until he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2016 that it became clear his imm...

OTTAWA - Economists and academics expect the trend of rising prices at the grocery store will follow consumers into 2026 even as Statistics Canada reported the overall inflation rate held steady in November. The agency said Monday that annual inflation...

The Canadian Press has been speaking with young people across the country about challenges facing their generation - and ways they continue to find joy. 'YOU'RE HUMAN AND YOU FEEL THINGS' Violet Rode, an 18-year-old theatre student at Dawson College in...

VANCOUVER - As a teen growing up in Toronto, Bhavik Sharma imagined what life would look like at 25. He and his high school friends would be starting families. They'd be on six-figure salaries and living comfortably. Now 27, he's back living with his p...

SYDNEY - Canadian Finn Foster, backpacking with his girlfriend in Australia, says they were planning to watch the sunset on Sydney's famous Bondi Beach when they heard about two dozen pops. At first, they thought it might be fireworks but quickly reali...

HALIFAX - The Whale Sanctuary Project, a proposed underwater enclosure that would encompass roughly 40 hectares off Nova Scotia's eastern shore, needs up to $15 million if it hopes to open by the end of summer 2026. Charles Vinick, CEO of the U.S.-bas...

TORONTO - Canadian politicians and community groups shared messages of support after a mass shooting left at least 15 people dead at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia. Prime Minister Mark Carney, in a statement Sunday, said Canadians stand with Jewis...

OTTAWA - Promoters of Canadian English say the federal government is sending the wrong message to the world with its recent use of British spelling in official documents. In a letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney, five linguistics experts and an editor...

British Columbia is bracing for another "high impact" deluge of rain that's forecast to hit the province's Fraser Valley, after intense downpours and cross-border outflows last week inundated Abbotsford, triggered evacuations and cut major highways. E...

OneBC, the party formed after a split from the Conservative Party of B.C., says leader Dallas Brodie has been "removed" by the party's board of directors. The party's only other elected member in the B.C. Legislature, Tara Armstrong, says she's lost c...

TORONTO - Members of Canada's Jewish community expressed anger and resolve on Sunday ahead of planned holiday events in the wake of a deadly mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia. Levi Gansburg, the rabbi at Chabad on Bayview in Toronto,...

Flooding woes in B.C.'s Fraser Valley don't appear to be over this morning as Environment Canada forecasts more rain for the already soggy region.While many evacuation alerts were rescinded by the City of Abbotsford on Saturday, the weather forecast calls for a "potentially significant push of moisture" for M...

ABBOTSFORD - Rainfall warnings have gone up across British Columbia's flood-drenched Fraser Valley as another wave of soaking weather hits the region. Environment Canada says the valley, including Abbotsford, which was inundated by cross-border floodin...

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is accusing Prime Minister Mark Carney of trying to wheel and deal his way to a majority government after a second Tory MP joined the Liberal caucus."He's trying to manipulate and engineer for himself a majority that Canadians denied him in democratic elections, a majority that...

QUÉBEC - The Quebec government is warning that a draft energy deal with Newfoundland and Labrador could be at risk if it's not settled before next year's provincial election. In a recent interview with The Canadian Press, Economy Minister Christine Fr...

TORONTO - The Toronto Zoo says it has euthanized one of its lions after the animal spent several months undergoing veterinary care for a gastrointestinal symptoms. In a Friday social media post the zoo says Fintan, a 13-year-old "majestic male white l...

OTTAWA - Members of the Métis Nation of Ontario say an upcoming academic summit in the province amounts to an attack on their history because it questions the legitimacy of their connection to Métis heritage and territorial claims. But the First Nation...