OTTAWA - The annual pace of inflation held steady at 1.7 per cent in May as cooling shelter costs helped tame price pressures, Statistics Canada said Tuesday. Shelter costs rose three per cent in May, StatCan said, marking a slowdown from 3.4 per cent in April. The agency singled out Ontario as the major source of rent...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Trump announces a ceasefire in Iran-Israel war U.S. President Donald Trump announced that Israel and Iran had agreed to a "complete and total ceasefire" soon after Iran launched a limited missile attack Monday on a U.S. ...

OTTAWA - A peer review of fossil fuel subsidies between Canada and Argentina - already years behind schedule - stalled after Argentina ceased communication following its 2023 election and subsequent change in government. The review was first launched in 2018 as part of a G20 commitment to eliminate all "inefficien...

MONTREAL - Quebecers will be decked out in blue and white today as the Fête nationale holiday is marked by parades, celebrations, and heat warnings. The festivities are coinciding with some extreme weather conditions this year. Quebec City announced this week it is opening air-conditioned community centres and li...

THE HAGUE - Prime Minister Mark Carney begins a two-day stop Tuesday in the Netherlands, where NATO alliance members are prepared to decide whether to more than double the defence spending target. The main talks in The Hague won't happen until Wednesday, with Carney first set to take part in several bilateral meetings....

Nigeria's financial crimes agency says a man who tried to blackmail a Surrey, B.C., teenager by posting his intimate images online has been sentenced to prison terms totalling 76 years. RCMP have said that the boy's sudden death in 2023 came after he fell victim to "financial sextortion." Nigeria's Economic a...

Crews battling wildfires burning near Dawson, Yukon, say there's been minimal growth of the wildfire close to homes in the area, although almost 200 properties remain on alert for possible evacuation. The territory's latest wildfire update says the Quebec Creek fire is now about 32 square kilometres in size and has had...

LAKE LOUISE - A survivor of a rockfall last week in Banff National Park is remembering 33-year-old friend Hamza Benhilal, who didn't make it out alive from under the rubble. Khaled Elgamal, 28, of Surrey B.C., says his roommate and friend Benhilal was one of two people who died after a slab of mountain gave way last Th...

OTTAWA - A top federal official says fixing the payroll problems caused by Phoenix cost taxpayers more than $5 billion - and they'll keep paying extra to run two public service payroll platforms at once as Ottawa weans itself off the problem-plagued system. Alex Benay, associate deputy minister at Public Services and P...

MARSTON, QUE - Quebec's police watchdog is investigating after provincial police killed a person in an alleged shootout about 200 kilometres east of Montreal. The independent agency says police responded to a call midday on Sunday in the community of Marston, Que., about a person in crisis who allegedly had access to a...

OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal is refusing to allow the owners of a British Columbia ostrich farm to conduct further testing of their flock for avian flu in a bid to avert a cull ordered by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. The same ruling that was issued on Friday but only published online on Monday grants a ...

ST. JOHN'S - Newfoundland and Labrador's capital city will no longer name new streets and city buildings after individual people. St. John's, N.L., city councillor Ron Ellsworth says naming streets and buildings after people comes with a host of risks, including political polarization and uneven representation of diffe...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says the provincewide state of emergency has been lifted as wildfires recede. More coming. The Canadian Press

Police in British Columbia say a suspect known as "Mr. X" who is believed to have helped test a bomb before the 1985 Air India terror attack has died before facing charges. The statement from the RCMP's Pacific Region comes as families commemorate the 40th anniversary of the attack, where two bombs targeting ...

OTTAWA - Ottawa has started evacuating Canadians from Israel days after telling them to find their own way to neighbouring countries. Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand says bus services started this morning from Tel Aviv and the West Bank to Jordan. She says bus routes also started yesterday to take Canadians who fl...

OTTAWA - Canada's Ambassador to the U.S. Kirsten Hillman will take on the role of top negotiator for Canada as the country seeks a new trade and security pact with the Donald Trump administration. Prime Minister Mark Carney's office confirms Hillman has been named to the position, making her U.S. Trade Representative J...

OTTAWA - A newly launched federal review of the Access to Information system is being greeted with deep skepticism by transparency advocates. The Treasury Board Secretariat announced the government review, which takes place every five years, in a news release late Friday. The release says officials will seek input from...

MONTREAL - Police are spending a third day searching for four people who went missing after a medical transport helicopter crashed on Quebec's North Shore. The Airmedic helicopter crashed into a lake late Friday near Natashquan, Que., just over 1,000 kilometres northeast of Montreal. Five people were aboard the aircraf...

OTTAWA - The next Canadian census will be held in May 2026. The federal cabinet has issued an order fixing the date for the census and the questions it will ask. The last census was held in 2021 and was the first to be held during a pandemic. It collected data on the population, including age, gender, marital status, f...

MONTREAL - Correctional Service Canada says a convicted killer has escaped from a prison in Quebec's Laurentians region. Staff discovered Richard Plourde was missing from his minimum security unit at about 11 p.m. Sunday. The 62-year-old was serving a life sentence for second-degree murder at Archambault Institution. H...

A British Columbia professor who is trapped in Iran says he's been told by officials there's "almost nothing" the Canadian government can do to help him and his family. Simon Fraser University engineering professor Simon Jannesar says in an email that communications are extremely limited and Canadian authorit...

In pricey spas, kelp facials and body wraps can set the esthetically inclined human back hundreds of dollars. But in the Salish Sea off British Columbia, southern resident killer whales are also using the sea plants for what scientists suspect are grooming purposes. Researchers who have spent years studying the endange...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Carney in Brussels for EU-Canada summit Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Belgium today, where he will visit a military cemetery before meeting with European Union leaders at an EU-Canada summit. Carney said on social media Sunday ...

TORONTO - Much of Ontario and southwestern Quebec will continue to bake in high temperatures Monday and Tuesday as a heat dome lingers over the region. Environment Canada issued a heat warning for the area on Saturday, saying hot and humid conditions will likely continue until Wednesday. In Toronto, the agency says the...

BRUSSELS - Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Belgium today, where he will visit a military cemetery before meeting with European Union leaders at an EU-Canada summit. Carney said on social media Sunday that he was in Brussels to launch "a new era of partnership" between Canada and the European Union for the be...

The court-appointed receiver of a Yukon gold mine that suffered a catastrophic heap-leach facility failure last year says it plans to sell the mine and will be seeking approval within the week to start the process. In its fifth receiver's report issued earlier this month, PricewaterhouseCoopers Inc. says it will seek c...

NATASHQUAN - A search has resumed for four people who are missing after a medical transport helicopter crashed on Quebec's North Shore during a rescue operation. The Airmedic helicopter was involved in an accident around 10:30 p.m. Friday near Natashquan, Que., just over 1,000 kilometres northeast of Montreal. Airmedic...

TORONTO - Blame the heat dome hanging over Ontario and Quebec for some of the strange weather hitting other parts of the country. Environment Canada meteorologist Julien Pellerin says scorching temperatures over the eastern part of the continent are causing below-normal temperatures in other regions. On Saturday, the w...