OTTAWA - Privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne says he will investigate whether social media platform X is respecting the law on the use of Canadians' personal information. In a letter to New Democrat MP Brian Masse, Dufresne says he will look at whether X complies with federal privacy law concerning the platform's co...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government says potential human remains have been discovered at a landfill where search teams have been working to find two slain First Nations women. The province says steps are underway to identify the remains from the site, located north of Winnipeg. It's believed the remains of Morgan Harris...

MONTREAL - Quebec's Court of Appeal has upheld a 2022 lower court ruling that found Canadian Pacific Railway did not have legal liability for the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster that killed 47 people. The province's high court heard arguments from three joined appeals seeking that the railway company be required to p...

FAIRBANKS - A woman from Delta Junction, Alaska, has been handed three years of probation for using a powerful laser to interfere with a joint military operation, injuring three Canadian aircrew members. A statement from the U.S. District Attorney's office in Alaska says Canadian military aircrews were flying in two ta...

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - A former high-school counsellor has been given a lifetime ban from teaching in British Columbia after he was convicted of possessing child pornography. A document outlining an agreement between the B.C. Commissioner for Teacher Regulation and Joseph Scott William McLeod says they have agreed McL...

MONTREAL - Quebec is taking steps to cut the number of international students in the province, but can't say by how many. The government will issue a maximum of around 124,000 acceptance certificates to foreign students this year, down from more than 156,000 last year. The measure targets private colleges that the gove...

A LGBTQ+ aid organization says there was a massive spike in the number of Americans looking to leave the country immediately after U.S. President Donald Trump was re-elected.Rainbow Railroad reports it received nearly 1,200 inquires from LGBTQ+ Americans on Nov. 6, 2024 alone, after getting about 700 U.S.-based inquiri...

LAVAL, Que. - The man accused of killing two children and injuring six others when the transit bus he was driving crashed into a Montreal-area daycare two years ago should be found not criminally responsible on account of a mental disorder, a Crown prosecutor said Friday. Prosecutor Karine Dalphond told Superior Court ...

OTTAWA - Canadian companies and diplomats are working with their European colleagues to find ways to diversify trade as the U.S. threatens to impose steep tariffs. Germany's Ambassador to Canada Tjorven Bellmann says European ambassadors in Ottawa have been in touch with corporations on both sides of the Atlantic to di...

OTTAWA - The federal justice minister has ordered a new trial for a man convicted of second-degree murder in Alberta more than three decades ago. Roy Allan Sobotiak was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Susan Kaminsky, who disappeared in 1987. The office of Justice Minister Arif Virani says the minister ...

OTTAWA - Multiple polls now suggest the next federal election - which could begin in a matter of weeks - will be a tight race. At least one major pollster has the Liberals in the lead and ahead of the Conservatives for the first time in nearly four years. A new survey from Ipsos released this week suggests that if an e...

OTTAWA - More than 28,000 people have signed a parliamentary petition urging Ottawa to bar U.S. President Donald Trump from Canada for persistently threatening the country's sovereignty. Alberta resident Gerard Aldridge, who recently initiated the electronic petition, says he's a fiercely proud Canadian who sees an opp...

OTTAWA - First Nations chiefs in Ontario are voting today on whether to accept a child welfare reform deal with the federal government as an election approaches. A national $47.8 billion deal proposed by the federal government to reform the First Nations child welfare system was voted down on two occasions last year, w...

MONTREAL - Francis Verreault-Paul has been elected the new regional chief of the Assembly of First Nations for Quebec and Labrador. Verreault-Paul takes over from Ghislain Picard, who decided not to run again after 33 years in the role. The 37-year-old beat out three other candidates in a vote held during a meeting in ...

OTTAWA - A LGBTQ+ aid organization says there was a massive spike in the number of Americans looking to leave the country immediately after U.S. President Donald Trump was re-elected. Rainbow Railroad reports it received nearly 1,200 inquires from LGBTQ+ Americans on Nov. 6, 2024 alone, after getting about 700 U.S.-bas...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to hit Canada and Mexico with devastating duties is set to take effect next week - but a White House official confirmed on background that the tariff plans could change through negotiations. Trump's executive order to implement 25 per cent tariffs on all Canadian imports,...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says it's moving away from the social media platform X. In an apparent farewell post to its more than 45,000 subscribers, the top court says it will focus its communication efforts on other platforms. It invites people to follow the court on its LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and You...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Liberals to start casting ballots for leadership With the debates now done, Liberal party members can start casting advance ballots today to select their next leader a little under two weeks from now. They can cast their ranked ba...

OTTAWA - In a series of press conferences in recent weeks, the federal Conservatives have demanded that Liberal leadership candidate Mark Carney comply with the conflict of interest rules that apply to members of Parliament and cabinet ministers. Carney, who is neither an MP nor a member of cabinet, has said he will co...

MONTREAL - Alison Steel was a young child when her mother was sent to Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron and his colleagues at Montreal's Allan Memorial Institute in the 1950s for treatment of what her daughter believes was likely depression triggered in part over the loss of another child. After rounds of electroshocks, induced ...

OTTAWA - As the Canadian broadcast system is upended by streaming, old-school media and telecom companies say they're struggling to compete and they want the country's broadcast regulator to take a lighter touch. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) is holding consultations on how the ...

Ontario's main political party leaders are making multiple stops across the province today with their final pitches to voters ahead of election day on Thursday. Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford is set to start the day with an announcement just outside of Windsor, the city where he launched his re-election camp...

MONTREAL - With the debates now done, Liberal party members can start casting advance ballots today to select their next leader a little under two weeks from now. They can cast their ranked ballot choices by mail or in some instances by phone, and each electoral district counts for 100 points in the race. Former centra...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) is hosting an emergency meeting Wednesday night to discuss the impact of U.S. tariffs on workers and communities. The meeting will be held virtually at 8 p.m. EST and will be attended by leaders from unions representing over three million workers from all sectors across Canad...

MONTREAL - A new poll suggests that while former central banker Mark Carney is still the odds-on favourite to win the Liberal leadership, he isn't likely to win on the first ballot. A Mainstreet Research survey shows Carney with a solid lead among registered Liberals - and former finance minister Chrystia Freeland comi...

MONTREAL - The first major French test for Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney during Monday night's debate proved to be a tough slog. Carney, the former Bank of Canada governor, is the presumed front-runner for the Liberal leadership and by extension the prime minister's job. One political science professor echoed ...

OTTAWA - In a few hours, Liberal leadership candidates Mark Carney, Chrystia Freeland, Karina Gould and Frank Baylis will square off in an English-language debate in Montreal. The event is set to run from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. and is being moderated by former CBC journalist Hannah Thibedeau of Global Public Affairs. Here's...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Andrew Furey has announced he is leaving politics and will step down once the Liberal party chooses a replacement. Here is a look at the province's 14th premier. Age: 49 Early years: Born in St. John's, Furey was involved in Liberal politics from a young age. His fat...