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Canadian Press newsmakers of the year since 1946

Former Liberal minister Jody Wilson-Raybould has been chosen as The Canadian Press's 2019 newsmaker of the year. Here is a list of past newsmakers as chosen in an annual poll of newsrooms across the c...

Dec 18, 2019

Quebec legislature members file police complaints over hateful online messages

MONTREAL - A Quebec legislature member who has highlighted the online hate and abuse faced by female politicians has taken her complaints to police, saying she wants to encourage other victi...

Dec 18, 2019

SNC-Lavalin pleads guilty to fraud, will pay a $280M fine for Libyan work

MONTREAL - A division of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. will plead guilty to a charge of fraud and pay a $280-million penalty related to work the company did in Libya. The plea deal comes on the heels of the ...

Dec 18, 2019

Canadian Press NewsAlert: Jody Wilson-Raybould is CP's newsmaker of the year

OTTAWA - The SNC-Lavalin affair cost Justin Trudeau two cabinet ministers, his most trusted aide, the top federal public servant and possibly a second majority mandate; and now the woman at the centre...

Dec 18, 2019

Right whale gives birth to first calf off the coast of Georgia: Oceana

HALIFAX - An international conservation group has announced the birth of the first North Atlantic right whale calf of the 2019-2020 calving season. Oceana says the calf was born Monday off the co...

Dec 18, 2019

Statistics Canada says annual pace of inflation climbs to 2.2 per cent

OTTAWA - The annual pace of inflation heated up in November as gasoline prices posted their first year-over-year increase since October 2018, Statistics Canada said Wednesday. The agency said the...

Dec 18, 2019

Private investigation into Sherman deaths over, but police probe continues: cops

Toronto police say a private investigation into the slayings of billionaire Barry Sherman and his wife Honey is over, but the force's own probe continues. Insp. Hank Idsinga, the head o...

Dec 18, 2019

Last GM cars roll out and watch for the 2019 newsmaker; In The News for Dec. 18

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 Dec. 18. What we are watching i...

Dec 18, 2019

Little Bay Islanders say goodbye as N.L. town resettles, but some eye return

LITTLE BAY ISLANDS, N.L. - On a clear Friday morning in mid-November, the MV Hazel McIsaac is packed with a gaggle of chatting passengers. U-Hauls and pick-up trucks are parked on the ferry's bottom d...

Dec 18, 2019

'You can call anything a national concern:' Alberta questions federal carbon tax

EDMONTON - Allowing Ottawa's carbon tax law to stand would give the federal government a tool it could use to repeatedly chip away at provincial powers, lawyers for the Alberta government ar...

Dec 18, 2019