OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says president-elect Donald Trump was joking when he suggested Canada become the 51st U.S. state during a dinner with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Florida on Friday. Fox News reported on Monday that Trump made the comment in response to the Canadians raising concerns ...

Canada Post says it has removed the deadline for its Santa Claus letter program amid an ongoing national workers' strike that has halted mail delivery leading up to the holiday season. Some 55,000 workers walked off the job more than two weeks ago, suspending mail service - and a program that helps deliver up to 1.5 mi...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Canada mulling patrol changes at U.S. Border Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says his department is considering giving additional powers to the Canada Border Services Agency to patrol the U.S. Border. He also says the RCMP ...

OTTAWA - The Assembly of First Nations is hosting a special chiefs assembly in Ottawa today with child welfare, economic reconciliation and First Nations policing on the agenda. The gathering comes after a testy October assembly where chiefs were divided on how to reform the First Nations child welfare system. More tha...

VANCOUVER - A disciplinary decision against a former Vancouver police sergeant, who was found to have improperly shared degrading messages about a colleague who was sexually assaulted, has been voided after authorities realized the senior officer who oversaw the investigation retired a week before it was issued. The di...

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc says his department is considering giving additional powers to the Canada Border Services Agency to patrol the U.S. Border. He also says the RCMP and CBSA are working on a list of new equipment that could help supplement their existing enforcement at the border. LeBlanc's...

A Canadian is among three climbers missing after they'd planned to climb New Zealand's highest peak. A news release from the New Zealand Police says two Americans, Kurt Blair, 56, and Carlos Romero, 50, and the unnamed Canadian flew into Plateau Hut on Saturday morning and planned to summit Aoraki, also known as Mount ...

OTTAWA - Hundreds of First Nations chiefs are gathering in Ottawa for three days this week to discuss economic reconciliation, reforming the First Nations child welfare system, the policing system and the carbon price at an Assembly of First Nations' special chiefs assembly. The gathering comes after a testy October as...

OTTAWA - A former senior Canadian Security Intelligence Service official acknowledges the spy service wanted Abousfian Abdelrazik placed on Canada's no-fly list. David Vigneault struggled to recall other details as he testified in Federal Court today in Abdelrazik's civil lawsuit against Ottawa over his detention and a...

OTTAWA - The federal government's decision to pause private refugee sponsorship applications from community organizations and groups of five or more people caught aide organizations off guard. Lauren Lallemand, the co-executive director of the Canadian Council for Refugees, says her group met with Immigration Minister ...

OTTAWA - Closing arguments have begun in the trial of an Ottawa man who Crown prosecutors allege helped make neo-Nazi propaganda and recruitment videos. Patrick Macdonald, 27, has pleaded not guilty to charges of terrorism and hate speech. Prosecutors showed an Ontario Superior Court three videos to promote the Atomwaf...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Securities Commission has imposed more than $18 million in sanctions on a cryptocurrency trading platform and its owner who it says diverted customers' assets to gambling and personal accounts. The commission says it has ordered David Smillie and his company, ezBtc, to pay $10.4 million...

OTTAWA - The auditor general says the small business loan program the federal government rolled out during the COVID-19 pandemic wasn't managed in a cost-effective way. Auditor general Karen Hogan says the Canada Emergency Business Account program wasn't managed with "due regard for value for money." The prog...

MONTREAL - The charges against three pro-Palestinian activists accused of criminally harassing federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller have been dropped. The activists' lawyer, Barbara Bedont, said today the charges were withdrawn on Nov. 29 after the three accused presented video that countered the allegations agains...

MONTREAL - A prominent polling analyst says Quebec's governing party could be reduced to fewer than 10 seats in the provincial legislature if an election were held today, based on current poll numbers. Philippe J. Fournier, creator of poll aggregator 338Canada, says Premier François Legault's approval rating is ...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says excavation and sifting have started in a section of a landfill believed to hold the remains of two slain First Nations women. He says the first truck has moved a load of refuse from the area to a Quonset hut, where searchers are manually sifting through it in the hope of findi...

OTTAWA - The latest attempt to bring down the minority Liberal government has stalled after the Conservatives blocked their own non-confidence motion from going ahead. On Friday, the Tories released the text of a motion they planned to bring to the House of Commons today, quoting NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh's criticism of...

OTTAWA - Canada has added Ansarallah, better known as the Houthi militant group, to its list of terrorist entities, following in the steps of allies like the United States. The group has launched numerous attacks on civilian and naval vessels in the Red Sea since November 2023, contributing to regional unrest in the mi...

OTTAWA - An investigation report into a Chinook helicopter crash that killed two Armed Forces members last year is recommending the Air Force use an automatic flight system when flying low over water at night. Capt. Marc Larouche and Capt. David Domagala were killed in June 2023 when the helicopter crashed into the Ott...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government has suspended most new international adoption applications because of human rights and trafficking concerns. The government says in a news release the system needs to be reinforced to ensure that adoptions are free of illegal practices, including abductions, sales and trafficking of chi...

TORONTO - The U.S. Postal Service has temporarily suspended accepting mail headed to Canada due to the strike by Canada Post workers. It is asking customers to refrain from mailing items addressed to Canada, until further notice: The move by the U.S. Postal Service comes after some 55,000 Canada Post workers walked off...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Ontario snow strands vehicles, knocks out power Intense snow squalls battering Ontario moved south Sunday after burying some parts of the province under more than a metre of snow, stranding people on roadways and prompting one tow...

ACCRA - Traditional healer Naa Busuafi used to feel empowered when leaving tribal ceremonies held on the outskirts of Accra, proud to be living out practices that colonists sought to eradicate. But that pride has been replaced by fear and dread as a government bill intended to stamp out homosexuality has contributed to...

MONTREAL - Electric bus manufacturer Lion Electric is temporarily laying off 400 employees and shutting down production at its Illinois plant after getting a two-week reprieve from its lenders. The St-Jérôme, Que.-based company said in a statement Sunday that it has secured an extension to Dec. 16 for a lo...

Canada Post says it has presented the union representing some 55,000 striking postal workers with a framework to reach negotiated agreements. A statement issued Sunday says the framework includes proposals to bring greater flexibility to the Canada Post delivery model and shows "movement on other key issues" ...

Canada's environment minister says he's disappointed that international negotiations over a treaty to end plastic pollution have ended without an agreement. Yet Minister Steven Guilbeault says he's still hopeful a deal can be struck as negotiators make plans to meet again next year. The talks held in South Korea this w...

MONTREAL - A new Crown corporation officially has officially taken the reins of Quebec's health-care system as part of the provincial government's effort to reduce emergency room wait times and surgery wait lists. The agency, called Santé Québec, will manage all health-care facilities in the province and ...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has demanded the federal government present a plan before Parliament to beef up border security as U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatens to impose stiff tariffs on Canada. Poilievre says the plan should include measures to increase patrols and technology to crack down...