SURREY - A man has been arrested and extradited back to Canada from Germany after a four-year police investigation uncovered an alleged dark-web trafficking ring that distributed counterfeit pills containing fentanyl. A statement from the RCMP's Pacifi...

OTTAWA - A multi-party group of parliamentarians is urging Ottawa to step up its efforts to stop Canadian companies from profiting from slavery in their operations abroad and through imports. Parliament passed the Supply Chains Act in 2023 which requir...

MONTRÉAL - A new branch of Montreal's REM light-rail system is set to open May 18, expanding the network in the city's West Island region. The Anse-à-l'Orme line is the third to open and will have four stations over 14 kilometres, bringing to 23 the to...

An arbitrator has ordered Air Canada to grant back pay to seven pilots denied religious exemptions from the airline's mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy in a violation of the Canadian Human Rights Act. In a case of workplace religious discrimination...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government will suspend the fuel excise tax on gasoline and diesel until Labour Day as the Iran war sends energy costs surging, Prime Minster Mark Carney announced Tuesday. Carney said the tax break will start April 20 and is expec...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Liberals return to Parliament with majority after three byelection wins Liberal MPs will now have more clout in the House of Commons after three byelection wins ga...

OTTAWA - The morning after the Liberals secured a majority government, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canadians can expect Parliament to be more substantive and less performative. "There's a difference between real testimony, real substance, getting t...

Events are planned across British Columbia today to mark 10 years since the province declared a public health emergency related to the overdose crisis that has since killed more than 18,000 people. A "moment of silence and minute of rage" is scheduled ...

VANCOUVER - It was a once-dominant force in British Columbia politics, but for more than a year and a half the party formerly known as the BC Liberals has been dormant - at least in the public eye. Now, a scandal over dirty tricks in the run-up to the ...

TERREBONNE - Liberal candidate Tatiana Auguste won the Terrebonne riding north of Montreal for the second time in a year Monday after her one-vote victory in 2025 was overturned by the courts. With all ballots counted, she led with 48.4 per cent of the...

WHITEHORSE - The Yukon government says the mine where a catastrophic storage failure in 2024 led to cyanide-soaked ore contaminating groundwater is now preparing to discharge some treated water in anticipation of the spring snowmelt. The government say...

TORONTO - The Public Health Agency of Canada says its investigation into a salmonella outbreak linked to pistachios is still active one year since recording the first infection. An update Monday by the agency shows people are still getting sick with il...

OTTAWA - Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon said he will meet with senior leadership from Anthropic this week in response to global concerns about the company's new AI model. Solomon told reporters Monday that departmental officials would me...

VICTORIA - British Columbia Premier David Eby said he may extend the current legislative session to find support among individual First Nations over his plans to suspend parts of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act. "Even now, we ar...

A Canadian man who lived in Windsor, Ont., was killed last week by Israeli forces outside the family's home in southern Lebanon, his family says. Mohamad Hussain Haidar says his 38-year-old brother Hassan Haidar went to Lebanon in November to be with h...

OTTAWA - German submarine maker TKMS is teaming up with a domestic steel-forging company as it vies for a lucrative contract to supply the Canadian navy with new submarines. TKMS says it inked a partnership with the Quebec-based forged-steel manufactur...

VICTORIA - Politicians and health experts are looking back at the successes and mistakes made during in the decade of a public health emergency into the toxic drug crisis in British Columbia. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said Monday that...

MONTREAL - Christine Fréchette, newly elected Coalition Avenir Québec leader and premier-designate, has a bit more than five months to revive her party before the provincial elections, and to define herself in a crowded political field. Her election ov...

VANCOUVER - Allowing publicly funded faith-based health-care providers to impose religious beliefs on patients, including those seeking medical assistance in dying, is a breach of the British Columbia government's "basic duty" to remain religiously neu...

OTTAWA - Groups representing women's shelters are praising the government's move to criminalize coercive control, but some women's organizations are also warning there is a risk of backlash. Bill C-16, which was introduced last year, would outlaw engag...

VANCOUVER - After Lapu Lapu attack survivor AJ Sico sang the national anthem from his wheelchair in a Vancouver banquet hall, he was met with a standing ovation - a fitting tribute, his family says, to his stubbornness and resilience. Sico, fellow surv...

OTTAWA - A coalition of clean energy groups is calling on Ottawa to connect the country through a grid powered by renewable energy. The David Suzuki Foundation says Canada is facing an energy affordability crisis, while demand for energy is set to expa...

CALGARY - A man from Ontario has pleaded guilty in Alberta to two counts of unauthorized employment of foreign nationals and fined $70,000 in case involving the hospitality industry in Banff National Park. A joint investigation between the Canada Bord...

SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., are investigating after the latest case of attackers firing shots at a home during the early morning hours. Investigators say the shots were fired on Monday at around 2:50 a.m. Police say the home was damaged but no on...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government has named well-known legal ethicist and former senator Brent Cotter to be the interim head of the RCMP watchdog. Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangaree said Cotter will become chairperson of the Civilian Review and C...

OTTAWA - Canada must break the stigma around careers in the skilled trades if the Liberals want to achieve their infrastructure and homebuilding agenda, federal Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu said on Monday. Hajdu said that when she was growing up in Thunde...

The CEO of Hootsuite has stepped down after spending the last several months defending a contract between the company and a controversial U.S. government department, making way for the firm's founder to return on an interim basis. Irina Novoselsky's de...

OTTAWA - The NDP is expected to introduce a motion on Wednesday calling on the government to ban a practice known as surveillance pricing that New Democrats say is unfair to consumers. The text of the motion describes the practice as companies using a...