Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Fast-moving fires destroy homes in northern Ontario as crews fight flames Winds out of the northwest could fan the flames of dozens of forest fires that have alrea...

VANCOUVER - Officials in British Columbia have their eyes on the skies as dry lightning strikes are listed as the probable cause of several new wildfires across the southern Interior. Environment Canada meteorologist Colin Fong says it's been so dry th...

TORONTO - Many regions of Ontario have traded heat warnings for air quality warnings as gritty, dusty wildfire smoke permeates the skies. Environment Canada has lifted many of the heat warnings spanning the province, though hot weather is expected to l...

Winds out of the northwest could fan the flames of dozens of forest fires that have already devastated communities in northern Ontario. Environment Canada says the community of Armstrong can expect widespread smoke with wind gusts of up to 40 kilometre...

OTTAWA - An internal government audit of Canadian diplomatic missions in the U.S. completed late last year found staff faced safety risks and problems with accessing health care - more than a year after a union flagged those same issues. "U.S. cities p...

OTTAWA - A handful of federal ministers are expected to address hundreds of First Nations chiefs as they gather in Ottawa today. They'll be speaking in front of the Assembly of First Nations' annual general meeting about public safety, the economy and ...

On Tuesday, June 14, The Canadian Press published a story about murder suspect Jongwon Ham. It included a partial quote from Crown lawyer Gerri-Lyn Nelson that was inaccurate. In the correct version of the partial quote, Nelson said evidence presented ...

ST. JOHN'S - The Assembly of First Nations passed a motion Tuesday denouncing what the Innu Nation says is the Newfoundland and Labrador's government's reliance on a "discredited and unscientific" theory that Innu arrived in the province just 300 years...

The latest blow to British Columbia's battered forestry sector has prompted industry, union and local officials to call for immediate support, while the forests minister said he expects to announce changes to forest permitting within weeks. The push co...

EDMONTON - A northern Alberta First Nation is suing the federal government to increase its annual treaty annuity payments. Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam says the $5 his members receive every year is an amount that's stuck in 1899, w...

OTTAWA - As President Donald Trump's administration continues to erode allies' trust, a new poll suggests the number of Canadians who hold a favourable view of China now outnumbers those who say the same of the United States. Recent polling by the Pew ...

MONTREAL - The governing Coalition Avenir Québec has changed its official name to feature new leader Christine Fréchette ahead of the October general election. According to a notice from Élections Québec dated July 9, the political party is now Équipe...

The British Columbia government says it's forgiving $340,000 in legal debts owed by a former aide who pleaded guilty to breach of trust in 2017 for his part in a political scandal involving the use of public office for partisan purposes. Brian Bonney ...

The BC Wildfire Service has warned that this week could be a crucial period for firefighters in the province as conditions converge to create what director of wildfire operations Cliff Chapman calls a "significant wildfire event." Chapman says the phen...

OTTAWA - The federal government will not accept any new applications this year from people who want to sponsor their parents and grandparents to come to Canada as permanent residents under a program meant to promote family reunification. The Immigratio...

VANCOUVER - The number of wildfires was ticking up as lightning strikes flickered across British Columbia's southern Interior on Wednesday, as a weather system that wildfire officials feared would trigger a surge in ignitions began to make its presence...

MONTREAL - The Quebec and Alberta governments plan to work together to implement artificial intelligence in public administration, which Quebec's cybersecurity minister says will help both provinces build on each other's experience to develop new tools...

OTTAWA - First Nations chiefs say the federal government is enabling residential school denialism by failing to make it a crime. The chiefs passed an emergency resolution at the Assembly of First Nations general meeting in Ottawa on Tuesday calling on ...

MONTRÉAL - A Montreal hospital is livestreaming complex eye surgeries to give medical trainees a real-time window into the operating room. The Angus Centre for outpatient ophthalmic surgery at the Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital is hoping to become an i...

TORONTO - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said it is not considering restrictions on fresh produce imports from the United States, where thousands have been infected with a diarrhea-causing parasite. Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control a...

OTTAWA - A week after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced his first picks for the Red Chamber, the federal government named almost a dozen people to its Independent Advisory Board for Senate Appointments. In 2016, the previous Liberal government creat...

TORONTO - Many parts of Ontario, including the Greater Toronto Area, are under an Environment Canada air quality warning as smoke from wildfires in northwestern Ontario drift south. "Smoke from wildfires can have serious health consequences for those...

Smoke from northern Ontario wildfires turned Toronto's skyline an eerie shade of orange Wednesday as air quality warnings across southern parts of the province raised health concerns and prompted outdoor event cancellations. Environment Canada's air ...

OTTAWA - The federal government has gone from a C student to top of the class in its work to advance internal trade between provinces, says the Canadian Federation of Independent Business. In the federation's latest annual report card on internal trade...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Tehran threatens to halt all Mideast energy exports after U.S. reimposes its blockade on Iran Iranian state media says U.S. strikes overnight on Iran killed at lea...

Hamilton city councillors rejected on Wednesday a temporary pause on new data centres that was eyed as a possible model for other municipalities amid the artificial intelligence boom. The city would have been the first in Canada to pass a data centre ...

OTTAWA - First Nations chiefs say they'll oppose any actions by federal and provincial governments to expedite major projects that would undermine their rights and environmental protections. They passed two resolutions at the Assembly of First Nations ...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada struck a somewhat optimistic tone about the economy after holding its policy rate steady on Wednesday but officials warned that instability in the Middle East is still weighing heavily on the outlook. The central bank's benc...