Category Archives: CP Canada
Five premiers urge Carney to withdraw court submission on notwithstanding clause
OTTAWA - Five premiers say Ottawa must withdraw its recent call for limits on the notwithstanding clause because it amounts to a "complete disavowal" of the bargain that spawned the Charter of Rights ...
Oct 07, 2025
Abandoned baby: Montreal-area police release video of person with bundle in arms
MONTREAL - Police have released surveillance video in the hopes of tracking down the parents of a premature baby abandoned Sunday night outside a home on Montreal's South Shore. The video shows a pers...
Oct 07, 2025
MPs launch probe of trucking sector, Bloc calls out labour standards
OTTAWA - Labour standards in Canada's trucking sector are under scrutiny as a House of Commons committee launched a study of the issue this week and the Bloc Qubcois called on the government to end wh...
Oct 07, 2025
Striking B.C. public service workers expand pickets again to more liquor stores
VANCOUVER - Too many wildland firefighters "hang up their boots" in British Columbia as wages and working conditions erode, but losing that experience could also mean billions in losses, a wildland fi...
Oct 07, 2025
MPs question Longest Ballot Committee organizer during probe of spring election
OTTAWA - An organizer behind a protest group that signed up hundreds of candidates in recent elections told members of Parliament on Tuesday that his invitation to appear before a House committee is p...
Oct 07, 2025
Ottawa, Ontario urge each other to help Marineland's belugas amid euthanasia threat
TORONTO - The federal and Ontario governments are urging each other to help 30 belugas at Marineland, which has threatened to euthanize the whales if the park does not receive emergency funds from Ott...
Oct 07, 2025
Carney government flags plan to retool much-maligned border security bill
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are indicating they plan to revamp their border security bill in response to widespread concerns about its impacts on civil liberties and privacy. Public Safety Minister ...
Oct 07, 2025
Quebec couple fight to stay in home expropriated for Lac-Mégantic, Que., rail bypass
MONTREAL - Two years after their home was expropriated to make way for a rail bypass, Lac-Mgantic, Que., resident Raymond Savoie and Rita Boulanger are still fighting to stay in the stone cottage wher...
Oct 07, 2025
Fiscal watchdog gives mixed review to Ottawa's budget framework changes
OTTAWA - Ottawa's fiscal watchdog says that while there are good ideas in the new budget framework the federal government announced this week, its definition of capital spending could blur the picture...
Oct 07, 2025
Thousands of Montreal students gather for Oct. 7 pro-Palestinian protest
MONTREAL - Thousands of students gathered in downtown Montreal on Tuesday for a pro-Palestinian demonstration marking the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel. The students set off ...
Oct 07, 2025