CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA - The wife of an Alberta man gunned down in a roadside shooting east of Calgary shared an emotional hug with the prosecutor after a jury found two men guilty of second-degree murder Saturday. Jurors deliberated for 14 hours bef...

MONTREAL - Paola Lara has followed the Montreal Victoire since their first game 2 1/2 years ago. On that nail-biting January day in 2024, they vanquished the Ottawa Charge in an away game - just as they did last week to win the Professional Women's Hoc...

MONTREAL - For decades, Dominique Boucher stayed away from the theatre. Boucher avoided being in the audience for shows because he has lived with a visual impairment for the past 40 years. But as more theatres in Quebec experiment with performances tha...

VANCOUVER - Former federal MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay has won the race to replace former British Columbia Conservative leader John Rustad on the fourth ballot, beating commentator Caroline Elliott. Findlay won with 51 per cent of the vote, just ahead of El...

OTTAWA - The federal government is facing increased pressure to state whether it knows how some of its recent policy changes will affect Canada's greenhouse gas emissions. Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin was peppered with questions on the issue at ...

OTTAWA - The number of immigration cases being brought to Federal Court has more than quadrupled since 2020 - and some immigration lawyers are linking the surge in part to the federal government's use of artificial intelligence and automation to clear ...

HALIFAX - Canada Post workers were set to wrap up voting on new tentative agreements Saturday after more than two years of labour strife. Some 55,000 Canadian Union of Postal Workers members began voting April 20 on a five-year contract, which include...

RALEIGH - Hockey might be considered Canada's game, but its most iconic trophy has extended its decades-long residency in the United States for at least another year. Taylor Hall, Logan Stankoven and Eric Robinson scored in a dominating first period t...

MONTREAL - An international panel of human rights experts has accused Canada of committing genocide against its Indigenous population after a week of hearings in Montreal. The Permanent Peoples' Tribunal was mandated to look at missing and disappeared ...

MONTREAL - The lawyer for a homeless man who once attended al-Qaida training camps says his client has pleaded guilty in Montreal to threatening to bomb public transit. Leonard Waxman says Mohamed Abdullah Warsame has also acknowledged having called a...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney told Pope Leo XIV on Friday that Canada wants to take a leadership role in the responsible development of artificial intelligence. The conversation happened days after the Pope called for robust regulation of AI. "Th...

MONTRÉAL - A group representing Quebec municipalities is calling on the next provincial government to boost funding for public transit agencies, which say they will need $20 billion by 2035 just to maintain their assets. The chair of the Union des muni...

VANCOUVER - The estimated cost of hosting World Cup matches in Vancouver has repeatedly increased and is now almost triple an initial estimate by the B.C. government. Here's how the increases have unfolded. March 2022: The province estimates the total ...

SAINT-HYACINTHE - Bloc Québécois MP Simon-Pierre Savard-Tremblay has confirmed he'll resign his seat in the House of Commons to run for the Parti Québécois in the fall provincial election. Savard-Tremblay says he'll sit as an Independent for the rest ...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government says the cost of hosting World Cup matches in Vancouver has spiked again and could reach $729 million, almost triple what the province estimated in 2022. And while the province says net hosting costs could g...

OTTAWA - Canada Post says it lost $205 million before taxes in the first quarter of the year as the postal service moves forward with reforms meant to address its ongoing struggles. The Crown corporation saw its revenue fall by $181 million or 14.3 per...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says its framework setting limits on delays in criminal trials is flexible enough to accommodate increasingly complicated cases. Chief Justice Richard Wagner said Friday the framework the court set out in 2016 in R....

OTTAWA - Outgoing Gov. Gen. Mary Simon has launched a project to fund community-based mental health services in Northern and Indigenous communities. The legacy project will be run with support from the Rideau Hall Foundation. It is called Ajuinnata, an...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is blaming Prime Minister Mark Carney's policies for Canada entering recession territory. Statistics Canada released a report Friday that said the economy contracted slightly for the second quarter in a row...

MONTREAL - When Caroline Rivest broke her ankle a few years ago, a doctor prescribed her a powerful opioid for three months to help with the pain. She was hooked in no time. After her prescription ran out, she turned to the black market to keep the wit...

OTTAWA - Drones made in Canada could be headed for the battlefield in Ukraine, thanks to a new corporate partnership between Canadian and Ukrainian drone makers. The defence ministers of Canada and Ukraine signed an agreement to support the co-producti...

Social media posts shared a rumour originating from an anonymous forum that claimed Ontario pilots were being hired to spread ticks from the air. The posts fuelled a conspiracy theory that the ticks were being dropped with the intention of infecting mo...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... China's foreign minister Wang Yi set to meet Carney, Anand today China's foreign minister Wang Yi is in Ottawa today, the first such visit in a decade. He is in C...

OTTAWA - Canadians claimed more than $122 million in federal subsidies for new electric vehicles since Ottawa reintroduced its rebate program in February, but many car dealers say they're still waiting to get the funds they are owed. Transport Canada p...

The final moments of those who took their own lives using products bought online from Kenneth Law were laid out before a packed Ontario courtroom Friday after the Toronto-area man at the heart of an international investigation pleaded guilty to 14 coun...

Kenneth Law, an Ontario man accused of selling lethal substances online to people who later used them to take their own lives, has pleaded guilty to 14 counts of aiding suicide in the province. Police have alleged that Law ran several websites that we...

OTTAWA - Canada's economy is still struggling to grow but some economists weighing in on the latest real gross domestic product results Friday argued that weakness may not qualify as a recession. StatCan reported Friday that the economy stalled in the ...

OTTAWA - Just days after a Canadian warship passed through the Taiwan Strait - defying Beijing's warning that such transits undermine the bilateral relationship - Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand welcomed her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi to Ottawa o...