MONTREAL - Newly released court documents show how police spent months tracking four men accused in an alleged anti-government plot in Quebec. The investigation of the men, two of whom are members of the Canadian Armed Forces, began in March 2023 following a tip from the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and invol...

RICHMOND - Several daily rainfall records were shattered in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia on Friday, with the Vancouver breaking a record set over a century ago. Environment Canada says about 43.2 millimetres of rain fell on Friday at Vancouver's airport, up from the previous record for that...

OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal has rejected a bid by a British Columbia ostrich farm to prevent the culling of its flock that had been infected with avian flu. More coming. The Canadian Press

Negotiations that had been scheduled for Friday between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have been delayed. A press release from CUPW says it's been informed by Canada Post that the Crown corporation needs more time to review offers from the union. The postponement comes after the two parties return...

A lawyer for one of five former junior hockey players acquitted of sexual assault charges last month says the Crown will not be appealing the ruling. More coming. The Canadian Press

MONTREAL - The provincial agency in charge of Quebec health care says the number of infants hospitalized from respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, has fallen significantly following a successful vaccination campaign. A preliminary provincial study found the vaccine was more than 80 per cent effective at preventing emer...

MONTREAL - Quebec's Health Department has released a plan to reduce premature deaths linked to social and economic inequalities by 10 per cent by 2035. The province defines premature deaths as those before age 75 caused by conditions such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer. Health officials say these early...

OTTAWA - Canada has taken the rare step of not signing onto a multi-country statement that demands Israel stop banning foreign journalists from entering Gaza and that local journalists be protected in the Palestinian territories. Canada co-founded the Media Freedom Coalition in 2020 and has signed dozens of statements ...

A new study suggests green space helped protect the mental health of city-bound Canadians during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. The peer-reviewed study suggests people who lived in urban areas with more greenery were less likely to be depressed in the first months of the pandemic. Those benefits were stronge...

MONTREAL - Former Quebec premier Lucien Bouchard is advising the leader of the Parti Québécois to reconsider his promise to hold a sovereignty referendum in his first mandate if he becomes premier. The former Bloc Québécois leader and Parti Québécois premier made the comments i...

MONTRÉAL - The Quebec liquor board may be forced to destroy $300,000 worth of American alcohol that the province has banned from stores. The provincial government on March 4 ordered the state-owned corporation to empty shelves of U.S. alcohol in response to tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump. At the time,...

Attacks on immigrants to Canada continue to proliferate online, with the latest volley coming from a false claim that immigrants aged 65 and up receive a partial old age security (OAS) pension immediately upon arrival in Canada - and that it comes from the pension of citizens. In fact, while there are some exceptions, ...

PEMBERTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - Two First Nations are denouncing British Columbia's planned month-long closure of Joffre Lakes Park for Indigenous cultural practices as too short, calling it "a fraction" of what they proposed within their title and rights. The Lilwat and N'Quatqua nations say the closur...

MONTREAL - A 17-year-old boy made a brief appearance today at Montreal's courthouse on terrorism charges. The accused faces three charges in youth court involving Islamic State. The federal Crown has opposed his release and the case will return to court Monday to set a date for a bail hearing. Prosecutor Marc Cigana ha...

TORONTO - There's growing concern about a move by the United States to make hundreds more product categories subject to the country's 50 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminum content. The addition of 407 categories, ranging from bulldozers to furniture, came into effect earlier this week to add pressure and costs to t...

Air Canada expects most of its domestic and international routes to be back up and running Thursday after resuming operations Tuesday following the conclusion of a strike by its flight attendants. An online dashboard tracking Air Canada's service resumption said Thursday morning that 98 per cent of domestic flights wer...

OTTAWA - The federal union representing workers at the Canada Revenue Agency has launched an online campaign denouncing staffing cuts. Marc Brière, national president of the Union of Taxation Employees, said the loss of about 3,300 call centre employees in the last year has resulted in delays, long wait times an...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Anand set to meet with Rubio in Washington Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is set to have her first official meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington today amid ongoing tensions in the bilateral relation...

SASKATOON - Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is set to meet today with federal Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald, along with industry groups, to discuss the steep Chinese tariff on Canadian canola seed. Kody Blois, the parliamentary secretary for Prime Minister Mark Carney, and Saskatchewan Agriculture Minister Daryl ...

WASHINGTON - Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is set to have her first official meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Washington today amid ongoing tensions in the bilateral relationship. Anand and Rubio have previously spoken by phone, including in June ahead of the G7 Leaders' Summit in Kananaskis. ...

British Columbia fishing guide Dean Werk says he was getting calls last week from keen anglers wondering if this would be their year. "Do you think there's going to be a salmon opening, Dean?" Now they have the answer. Amid bumper returns of millions of prized sockeye salmon, Fisheries and Oceans Canada issue...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Supreme Court has given the Canadian government until April 2026 to change the Indian Act to bring it into compliance with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms after a successful legal challenge by descendants of people who renounced their status under the law. The court ruled that provisions of the ...

VANCOUVER - A member of the British Columbia legislature says she is pursuing a private prosecution against a Vancouver woman who praised Hamas's Oct. 7 attack on Israel as "heroic." Dallas Brodie, leader of the OneBC party, says she has submitted allegations of "terrorism offences" against Charlott...

WEST KELOWNA - The City of West Kelowna, B.C, has cited public safety to deny a permit for a concert by American Christian singer Sean Feucht, who is outspoken in the Make America Great Again movement. More coming. The Canadian Press

OTTAWA - An open letter signed by dozens of community and business leaders says the Liberal government should not have decided to recognize a Palestinian state without debating the issue in Parliament. The letter from B'nai Brith Canada, whose signatories include former MP Rona Ambrose and CTV host Ben Mulroney, says i...

MONTRÉAL - Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante says she and Prime Minister Mark Carney are aligned on priorities including public transportation and housing. Plante and Carney met at Montreal City Hall for the first time since Carney was elected in April. Montreal's mayor told reporters after the meeting that t...

SURREY - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is the latest politician calling for the federal government to designate the India-based Lawrence Bishnoi gang as a terrorist entity. His call on a visit to Surrey, B.C., comes after RCMP in the city announced last month they had made two arrests in an investigation into ex...

Airport shuttle driver Sean Carter has lived in the remote northern British Columbia community of Bella Bella for almost nine years and says the small coastal village occasionally gets a celebrity visit. Maybe a movie star or former athlete on a fishing trip. But nothing too high profile. He said that was why he initia...