Canada

2024 presidential election campaign looks like 2020 rematch, in more ways than one

WASHINGTON - Joe Biden's unofficial campaign strategy for 2024: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. The sitting U.S. president formally launched his bid for re-election early today with a three-minute vi...

Apr 25, 2023

In The News for April 25: Federal campaign officials testify on foreign interference

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Tuesday, April 25, 2023 ... What we are watchi...

Apr 25, 2023

Liberal, Conservative campaign operatives to testify on foreign election meddling

OTTAWA - Members of the Liberal and Conservative backrooms will step into the spotlight to testify today before a parliamentary committee that's probing allegations of foreign election interference. T...

Apr 25, 2023

Mental-health services come too late, experts say, after uptick in violence

VANCOUVER - Recent cases of violence across Canada demonstrate a clear need to treat mental illness early instead of waiting until a serious crime happens, says an executive with the Canadian Mental H...

Apr 25, 2023

'Missing in action': gun-control groups chide NDP over noncommital stance on bill

OTTAWA - The federal New Democrats are coming under pressure from gun-control advocates to support the Liberals in enacting a permanent ban on assault-style firearms. In a pair of open letters, variou...

Apr 25, 2023

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier visiting B.C's Lower Mainland

VANCOUVER - Germany's president is visiting the Lower Mainland today on the third day of his four-day trip to Canada. Frank-Walter Steinmeier is slated to take a tour of the Burnaby fuel cell company ...

Apr 25, 2023

Baffinland requests further production increase at Nunavut iron ore mine

POND INLET, Nunavut - The owner of an iron ore mine on the tip of Baffin Island says it needs to again increase production to prevent job losses, and several federal cabinet ministers are calling on a...

Apr 25, 2023

B.C. Crown says bail policy changes need to come from federal government

VICTORIA - British Columbia has one of Canada's strictest bail condition policies for prosecutors to ask for custody orders, yet repeat violent offenders continue to be released in the majority of cas...

Apr 24, 2023

Smith declines to disavow comments urging out-of-pocket payments for health care

EDMONTON - Premier Danielle Smith is declining to say whether she stands by or disavows earlier comments she made proposing Albertans pay out-of-pocket for medically insured services as a way to keep ...

Apr 24, 2023

Similarities in testimony from Vancouver officers at Myles Gray inquest

BURNABY, B.C. - Several patterns have emerged after the last few Vancouver police witnesses testified at a coroner's inquest into the death of Myles Gray in August 2015. The 14 officers who have testi...

Apr 24, 2023