Canada

Quebec election: Parti Québécois raises most money since start of campaign

MONTREAL - The Parti Qubcois has raised more money since the beginning of Quebec's election campaign than any other party. lections Qubec says the sovereigntist party raised $354,175 from 3,852 donors...

Sep 29, 2022

Average home price 67 per cent higher than affordable level in August: PBO

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says the national average price of a home in February was more than 50 per cent higher than it was two years prior. A new report says the average home price r...

Sep 29, 2022

Canada matching more donations for Pakistan flood aid, will raise cap to $5M

OTTAWA - International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan says Ottawa will match more donations, for a longer period of time, to help those suffering from flooding in Pakistan. Prime Minister Justin T...

Sep 29, 2022

Fiona cleanup: Federal government poised to send more troops to Atlantic Canada

Defence Minister Anita Anand says there are now 700 military members in Atlantic Canada helping with the cleanup after post-tropical storm Fiona left much of the region in tatters. Anand says Canadian...

Sep 29, 2022

Family files $2.7-million lawsuit over Indigenous woman's death in Quebec hospital

MONTREAL - The family of an Indigenous woman who was mocked by staff as she lay dying in a Quebec hospital in September 2020 has filed a lawsuit seeking nearly $2.7 million. Joyce Echaquan, a 37-year-...

Sep 29, 2022

Supreme Court of Canada won't hear appeals in Alberta coal project case

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear appeals from parties who support approval of an open-pit coal mine in southwest Alberta. A review panel had concluded the likely effects of the propo...

Sep 29, 2022

Storm recovery crews overwhelmed, bureaucrats on crypto: In The News for Sept. 29

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 Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. What we are watching...

Sep 29, 2022

Senior bureaucrats probed cryptocurrencies after Poilievre campaign comments

OTTAWA - Senior federal bureaucrats examined whether cryptocurrencies protect against inflation not long after Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre made the claim as a candidate in the Conservative lead...

Sep 29, 2022

Foreign Affairs minister returns to U.S. capital to talk Ukraine with Blinken

WASHINGTON - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly is headed back to the U.S. capital to talk about Ukraine with Secretary of State Antony Blinken. It will be the pair's second meeting in just over a w...

Sep 29, 2022

Damages from spring derecho in Ontario, Quebec now top $1 billion

OTTAWA - Repair bills from the cluster of wind storms that pummeled southern Ontario and western Quebec in May are now over $1 billion, and with contractors stretched thin the recovery will last well ...

Sep 29, 2022