Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Lloyd Robertson, one of Canada's most recognizable news anchors, dies at 92 Tributes and condolences are being shared after Canada on Tuesday lost a staple in Cana...

VERNON - As the damage from the devastating wildfire along Okanagan Lake in British Columbia is being assessed, officials are warning of the potential of more fires as dry lightning storms are forecast for this week. Cliff Chapman with the BC Wildfire...

OTTAWA - Most Canadian travellers don't understand that Ottawa's travel alerts can void their travel insurance and don't know how embassies can help them while abroad, says a new survey commissioned by the foreign service. "Awareness of consular servic...

NIAGARA FALLS - Silence envelops Marineland. Gone are the millions of visitors from the marine park's glory days who came to see apex predators such as killer whales, lovable seals, sea lions and dolphins and the world's largest pod of captive belugas...

TORONTO - A new poll finds Canadian businesses are feeling optimistic about the federal government's economic agenda, but that it will come down to executing on those priorities as the country stares down threats of fresh tariffs from the U.S. A KPMG ...

OTTAWA - A former Ontario man and a Conservative U.S. think tank are encouraging the Trump administration to offer refugee status to Jewish Canadians who feel threatened by rising antisemitism here. "With the urgency around the challenges and the inact...

ELIZABETHTOWN - More testimonies are scheduled today in the trial of a man accused of killing his nine-year-old daughter last summer during a trip to New York. Luciano Frattolin is charged with second-degree murder and concealment of a human corpse in ...

TORONTO - Lloyd Robertson, a stalwart of Canadian TV news for decades who earned the unrelenting trust of viewers, has died at the age of 92. His family confirmed to The Canadian Press in an email that the veteran broadcaster died Tuesday evening. Robe...

VERNON - More than 1,300 firefighters are battling wildfires in British Columbia, including recent fires that spread around northern Okanagan Lake during a windstorm on Saturday, forcing thousands of residents, while fires destroyed hundreds of homes. ...

The Bradley Creek fire that is believed to have destroyed about 230 homes on the Okanagan Indian Band Reserve is among six so-called "wildfires of note" that have forced thousands of people from their homes in British Columbia. Here's what we know abou...

ELIZABETHTOWN - Police found traces of blood on the jacket a nine-year-old Montreal girl was wearing when she died last summer in a rural area of New York. A forensic scientist from the New York State Police testified about the discovery on Tuesday dur...

MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police have called the Canadian Armed Forces to dispose of a suspected grenade that was discovered at a campground south of Montreal today. Police spokesperson Louis-Philippe Ruel says a person found the object at around 10...

OTTAWA - U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy for fighting antisemitism is urging Canada to revoke visas and expand terrorism listings to curb the rise of anti-Jewish hatred. Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, who spent seven years of his childhood in Ottawa, was ap...

TORONTO - Health Canada has authorized Moderna to conduct a clinical trial on a new mRNA vaccine that targets the form of Ebola blamed for the largest outbreak ever reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo. There is no vaccine or treatment for the ...

OTTAWA - A non-profit organization is calling on the federal government to launch a national commission to study the legacy of slavery and anti-Black racism in Canada. The Black Class Action Secretariat says the commission could probe the enduring impa...

MONTREAL - A municipality in Quebec's Laurentians region has declared a local state of emergency after heavy rainfall left some roads impassable. The town of L'Ascension says on social media that over a dozen roads are damaged or destroyed. Residents o...

OTTAWA - Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc is in Washington again this week. LeBlanc and Janice Charette, Canada's chief trade negotiator, are in D.C. "for a series of trade-related engagements," a government spokesperson said Tuesday. A gover...

Flight disruptions at WestJet appeared to be tailing off Tuesday as the airline ramps up following a brief work stoppage over the long weekend. Data from aviation analytics company Cirium showed 16 WestJet flights scheduled for Tuesday had been cancell...

OTTAWA - The federal government is advancing the process to designate a proposed oil pipeline to the West Coast as a "national interest" project. Naming a project in the national interest under the Building Canada Act allows the government to fast-trac...

CHILLIWACK - RCMP say one man is dead following a mid-air collision between two planes in B.C.'s Fraser Valley. Mounties say in a statement issued Tuesday that crews have started the recovery process for the man's body and his Cessna 172 from a pond in...

OTTAWA - A Canadian telecommunications firm has signed a deal with the federal government worth $2.3 billion to provide high-speed satellite communications to the Canadian Armed Forces in the Arctic. The federal Defence Investment Agency and Telesat LE...

OTTAWA - The federal NDP's total fundraising dropped in the second quarter while the average size of donations increased, fundraising figures show. The party collected about $1.2 million between April and June from nearly 15,000 donors, for an average ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Years after the pandemic, MPs are divided on hybrid Parliament rules During the COVID-19 pandemic, members of Parliament began voting and attending committee meeti...

MONTREAL - More than 100 residents gathered outside the Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough hall in Montreal on Monday evening, demanding faster action from elected officials at the borough's first council meeting since hundreds of homes in the city's West Isl...

VERNON - The devastation stretches for more than a kilometre along the northwest shore of British Columbia's Okanagan Lake, house after house reduced to scorched and twisted metal and grey dust. The apocalyptic scenes - burned-out cars, still-smoulderi...

OTTAWA - During the pandemic, members of Parliament began voting and attending committee meetings from home. Six years later, Parliamentarians are divided over whether those hybrid rules should remain in place. In March 2020, the House of Commons adopt...

TORONTO - Bruce MacLeod never thought he would forget his own birthday. But a couple days after a heart valve replacement in February 2025, he did. "It was strange. It was just out of reach, like, if I reached a little further, I could have pulled th...

CHILLIWACK - Two planes from a pair of flight schools crashed Monday while flying near the city of Chilliwack in British Columbia's Fraser Valley. Garry Atkins with the Chilliwack Airport says one of the aircraft carrying two occupants safely landed at...