A fire that tore through a Canadian Armed Forces training ground in Wainwright, Alta., on Saturday killed four soldiers and injured 39 others. False and misleading claims about the fire and its cause spread online this week. Here is a look at some of t...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne says the Liberal government will table its 2026 federal budget on Nov. 5. The upcoming fiscal plan will be the second delivered under Prime Minister Mark Carney and comes as Canada's economy faces s...

OTTAWA - Culture Minister Marc Miller has returned from a five-day trip to China that aimed to deepen cultural ties between the two countries. Miller travelled to Shanghai, Shenzhen and Suzhou this month with dozens of representatives from Canadian cre...

OTTAWA - Proposed amendments to Canada's labour code outlined in Bill C-39 could put decades of labour stability at risk, Canadian Labour Congress President Bea Bruske told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday. The 243-page bill seeks to fast-track app...

If only. It's a phrase that plays over and over again in Eva Mamakwa's mind. If only her daughter, Miranda Mamakwa, had made it to at least one followup appointment after open-heart surgery, she may be alive. If only Indigenous Services Canada's non-i...

OTTAWA - It was after dark last Wednesday when a drone dropped silently from the sky over the special handling unit of a maximum-security prison in Quebec. Slipping into the gap between the chain-link fencing and the window - which was broken from the ...

OTTAWA - Defence Minister David McGuinty said 33 members of the Canadian Armed Forces remain in hospital after a deadly fire swept through a training ground at the military base in Wainwright, Alta., on Saturday. McGuinty was in Wainwright on Monday, w...

OTTAWA - Albertans voted overwhelmingly to stay in Canada in Monday's historic referendum vote. In early returns, about three in four Albertans said yes to Confederation, while about one in four said they wanted the province to hold a second, binding r...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says it was "a great result for Canada" when Albertans chose unity in the referendum vote on Monday. Carney said he spoke to Alberta Premier Danielle Smith early Tuesday about the results and charting a path forward....

OTTAWA - The Parliamentary Budget Office has trimmed its outlook for economic growth for this year and next amid new U.S. tariffs and Canadian countermeasures. In a revised outlook on Tuesday, the federal budget watchdog said it now projects real gross...

Albertans voted in a referendum Monday against separation. In early results, about 76 per cent of said they wanted the province to stay in Canada, while 24 per cent said they wanted the province to hold a second, binding referendum on leaving the count...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Maple leaf love: Albertans vote strongly to stay in Canada O Canada, Alberta is staying put. In a historic referendum Monday that capped a long debate over separat...

EDMONTON - While Albertans roundly rejected separation in Monday's referendum, results were decidedly closer in early returns on nine other questions. Premier Danielle Smith also polled Albertans on five questions on immigration and four seeking a mand...

WAINWRIGHT - Residents of a central Alberta town are grieving after a vicious fire killed four men and injured dozens more at a nearby military base, but living alongside soldiers preparing for battle has built up a deep stoicism and resilience in the ...

Both the British Columbia Conservatives and the New Democrats have promised to extend the SkyTrain transit line into Newton in an attempt to sway support in vote-rich Surrey, B.C., just days before the Oct. 24 provincial election. The campaigns issued...

EDMONTON - Albertans voted overwhelmingly Monday to remain in Canada in a referendum, writing a new chapter in longstanding debate on relations with the rest of the nation. Here's a look at some key events: 1980 - The federal government ignites widespr...

EDMONTON - Albertans have voted in a historic referendum. There are 10 questions on the ballot, with the key one asking whether the province should remain in Canada or hold a second, binding referendum on leaving the country. The other nine questions f...

LYTTON - The municipal election in Lytton, B.C., has resulted in a tie between two mayoral candidates with differing views on the community's recovery from a devastating wildfire that destroyed much of the village five years ago. The results posted to ...

TUMBLER RIDGE - Mounties in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., say a man is in custody after flashing a knife at youth over the weekend. They say the incident happened late Saturday evening in the small town, which gained international attention earlier this year af...

The former rugby coach for Pte. Hayden Lykkemark, one of four soldiers who died in a fire at CFB Wainwright on Saturday, says all of the teenager's team and his schoolmates thought of him as their best friend. Trevor Plater, who coached Lykkemark in hi...

VANCOUVER - A humpback whale has been struck by a BC Ferries vessel in waters near Metro Vancouver. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says in an email that they were alerted to the collision on Sunday, when the Queen of Surrey reportedly struck the whale nea...

A measles outbreak that spanned two years and infected thousands of people in Canada is over. The Public Health Agency of Canada made the declaration in a press release Monday, stating that more than 6,400 people were infected across 10 provinces. Tw...

OTTAWA - Four federal ministers defended the government's contentious legislation to speed up major projects in the House of Commons Monday, as Ottawa continues to face criticism from Indigenous, environment and labour groups. The 243-page bill would f...

TORONTO - The coming days and weeks will be critical for patients with severe burns from Saturday's devastating fire at a military base in central Alberta as they face life-threatening risks of infection and a long, painful road to recovery, burn speci...

The British Columbia Conservatives' projection of 3.2 per cent economic growth by 2029 represents about one per cent "more optimism" than the New Democrats previously budgeted for, interim Conservative leader Lorne Doerkson said. The Conservatives' fig...

ABBOTSFORD BRITISH COLUMBIA - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge says a portion of the Criminal Code restricting multiple murderers from applying for early parole under the so-called "faint-hope" clause is in breach of a section of the Charter of R...

OTTAWA - A federal union is speaking out against cuts to the federal translation bureau and is accusing the Carney government of hypocrisy as Ottawa defends French language standards in trade talks with the U.S. The translation bureau is a federal gove...

OTTAWA - While digital issues will continue to be a source of trade tensions with the United States, Canada can gain strength if it teams up with other allies that have similar interests, Canada's former chief trade negotiator said Monday. Steve Verheu...