VICTORIA - The interim leader of the Conservative Party of B.C. says the Declaration on the Rights of the Indigenous Peoples Act can be repealed in a few days, if Premier David Eby immediately recalls the provincial legislature. Trevor Halford says Bri...

As holiday baking season begins, federal health agencies are warning Canadians that an investigation into salmonella-contaminated pistachios is still ongoing. Since March, 155 people have been reported sick with the bacterial illness after eating vari...

SAULT STE. MARIE - Plans are in the works to save hundreds of the roughly 1,000 jobs slated to be lost at Algoma Steel Inc. in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. Bill Slater, president of United Steelworkers local 2724 that represents some of the affected employee...

HARTLEY BAY - Leaders of a First Nation on British Columbia's northern coast say they met Friday with Alberta's minister of Indigenous relations to express opposition to any changes to Canada's tanker ban to service a potential new pipeline. The Gitga'...

MONTREAL - Quebec's environment minister says the province will reduce the amount of time it takes to complete an environmental assessment by about half. Bernard Drainville says the time savings will come from simplifying the process for industry and ...

OTTAWA - Canada will open a new express permanent residency program for international doctors next year, Immigration Minister Lena Diab said Monday. She said the program will be open to physicians in Canada on temporary work permits - including emergen...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday his government's plan to get public servants to spend more time in the office will come into "sharper view" over the next several weeks. The issue came up when Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe asked Carney abo...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Trump says 'We'll see' on whether to restart trade talks with Canada U.S. President Donald Trump answered "we'll see" when he was asked Sunday whether he'd resume...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals' budget bill currently making its way through Parliament contains a small amendment to Canada Post's legislation that could spell the end of a critical service providing accessible reading material for people who are blind...

OTTAWA - Artificial intelligence is likely to take up much of the agenda as industry, digital and technology ministers from the world's most powerful Western countries meet in Montreal this week. The two-day event is part of a series of ministerial mee...

OTTAWA - Economists widely expect the Bank of Canada will hold its benchmark interest rate steady this week and move to the sidelines to cap off a year dominated by trade and economic uncertainty. The central bank's policy rate stands at 2.25 per cent ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump answered "we'll see" when he was asked Sunday whether he'd resume the trade talks he halted with Canada earlier this year. Trump made several comments about the ongoing trade dispute with Canada as he spoke with...

VICTORIA - Babak Shahbazi has travelled to France, Germany, Brazil and Russia to watch the Iranian national team play for the World Cup, and when he heard that Iran could be playing in Vancouver in the 2026 event, he and his fellow soccer-fanatic frien...

ST. JOHN'S - Undergraduate students across North America sat down on Saturday to write a gruelling six-hour math exam, many of them unlikely to solve a single problem. The notoriously brutal William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition is more of a m...

OTTAWA - Journalist Stephen Thorne, who movingly chronicled some of the most difficult episodes in recent Canadian history, died Friday after being ill with prostate cancer. He was 66. Thorne spent much of his career at The Canadian Press and later wor...

MONTREAL - Air Transat pilots set the stage for a strike as early as Wednesday morning, issuing a 72-hour notice to the struggling company on the cusp of the busy holiday travel season. The Air Line Pilots Association said Sunday it filed the strike no...

British Columbia's logging agency has changed a policy that conserved remnant old-growth forest in the province's northwest, with a government briefing note showing a plan to open those areas for harvesting has been approved. The note, obtained by The ...

OTTAWA - Canada is missing out on economic opportunities in its own backyard, says a new report from the Canadian Council for the Americas. "Latin America is the neglected ... close cousin of Canada," said Janice Stein, a prominent geopolitics expert w...

VANCOUVER - A team of Canada Revenue Agency "cryptoasset auditors" has been mining a rich seam of unpaid taxes, working on more than 200 files and reaping more $100 million in the last three years. While the agency says up to 40 per cent of taxpayers w...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says anyone seeking an independence referendum should not have "gatekeepers," like the courts, standing in their way. Smith was asked about the independence question Saturday on her radio call-in show, weighing...

VICTORIA - Foreign nationals in Vancouver and Toronto are buzzing with excitement as the cities gear up to host a slate of national teams as part of the 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup. The full schedule of the expanded 48-team, 104-game tournament was anno...

MONTREAL - Montrealers and others across the country paused to pay tribute Saturday to the 14 women who were murdered at Polytechnique Montréal 36 years ago simply because they were women. The prime minister acknowledged there was much left to do. Mar...

MONTREAL - First Nations, Inuit and Métis leaders welcomed back dozens of Indigenous artifacts released from the Vatican collection at Montreal's airport Saturday. The 62 items will ultimately be returned to their communities of origin as an act of fur...

OTTAWA - Prominent Russian democracy activists are urging Ottawa to resettle dozens of their peers who tried to claim asylum in the U.S. and now face deportation and imprisonment in Russia. The activists told The Canadian Press 30 Russian nationals bei...

Conservation officers in British Columbia are no longer actively trying to capture the grizzly bear responsible for last month's "extraordinary attack" on a group of schoolchildren and teachers that left four with severe injuries. A statement from the ...

OTTAWA - The federal government has disclosed the first eight projects to be managed by the new Defence Investment Agency. The large military procurements include Canada's next fleet of submarines, Arctic over-the-horizon radar, and a fleet of early wa...

OTTAWA - Canada is dropping its terror listing for the group that has governed Syria since the ouster of dictator Bashar Assad one year ago. Syria is no longer listed as a state supporter of terrorism, while the group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, or HTS, is n...

A video posted to social media in December appeared to show a Brampton, Ont. man filming the chained-up bumper of his Mustang - the only part of the vehicle that remained after a supposed theft. While some users who reposted the video took it at face ...