Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... U.S. Coast Guard suspends search for missing Ontario air ambulance The Ontario company that owns the Canadian air ambulance that vanished off the coast of Nantucke...

MONTREAL - Voters in Quebec's 127 ridings are heading to the polls today to choose a new provincial government. The Parti Québécois appears to be in the driver's seat heading into an election that comes at the end of two straight Coalition Avenir Québe...

VANCOUVER - A trial is expected to start today in B.C. Supreme Court where author and former professor Steven Galloway says he was defamed by false accusations of sexual assault. Galloway was a tenured professor and the chair of the creative writing p...

OTTAWA - Parliamentarians are back in Ottawa where debate is set to continue on the government's 243-page economic and labour bill, with plans to introduce legislation focused on national defence and security procurement. The government's key piece of...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada is set to mark the opening of the judicial year with a ceremony in its temporary new building today. The top court's nine justices are settling in at the West Memorial Building in Ottawa while the court's permanent ...

VANCOUVER - Ralph Mistlberger's light is adjustable, allowing him to have the full spectrum of options depending on what his internal clock needs. "You want cool in the morning. You want warm in the evening or warm in the afternoon," he said. "And so, ...

BRAMPTON - A trial is set to begin today in Brampton, Ont., for a man accused in what investigators have called one of the largest gold heists in Canadian history. Parmpal Sidhu is charged with theft over $5,000 and conspiracy to commit an indictable o...

TORONTO - Experts from around the world, including Canada, say the scale of digital technology use by children and youth is a public health issue that needs immediate action to prevent further harm. A series of papers published by the Lancet on Sunda...

MONTREAL - Quebec's main party leaders took a look back at their campaigns on Sunday as they worked to deliver one final message to electors on the eve of Monday's vote. Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon says this election is all about br...

MONTREAL - With hours left in Quebec's provincial election campaign, Coalition Avenir Québec Leader Christine Fréchette acknowledged Sunday that there are things she would have done differently. During a stop in Shawinigan, Fréchette said she was proud...

British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby said his party would introduce a new tax bracket for those who earn $1 million or more and raise the existing rates of the two highest brackets to help pay for health care, if re-elected. Eby's party said British C...

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended the search for six people, including four Canadians, who were aboard a missing medical transport aircraft off the coast of Nantucket. A statement released Sunday said the coast guard and other agencies searched more than ...

EDMONTON - Angel Houle says she's never voted in an Alberta provincial election, but this month's referendum is different. Not only is she casting a ballot, Houle is helping outfit First Nations' leaders with everything they need to get out the vote on...

OTTAWA - Espionage is a deadly serious and generally misunderstood business, and it's critical for Canadian politicians thinking about starting a foreign spy service to decide "with their eyes wide open," a new study says. "Virtually no Canadian knows ...

MONTREAL - Quebec's campaign trail has been more crowded than ever in 2026, with five parties potentially in a position to have members elected to the legislature for the first time in 50 years. But it's Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon ...

GRAND FORKS - British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby says his election promise to cap unfair increases on grocery staples is aimed at multiple major grocers in the province and was not deliberately targeting one company. Eby says the distribution of foo...

VANCOUVER - One of several accusers of former University of British Columbia professor Steven Galloway says she now understands her conduct toward him was "serious and harmful" as she apologized just days before a defamation trial in the case is expect...

Debris from a missing Ontario air ambulance that had been carrying six people, including four Canadians,
has been spotted off the coast of the United States. The U.S. Coast Guard said search crews found a debris field roughly 150 kilometres southeast o...

EDMONTON - On any given day, says Aengus Bridgman, if you ask a popular artificial intelligence chatbot and a search engine whether taxes in an independent Alberta would be higher, it might say yes. A few hours later, it could be no. Responses from Goo...

OTTAWA - Quebec correspondent "Geneviève Tremblay" - who has been reporting on multiple news stories a day lately - seemed to be experiencing a glitch. She wasn't the only one. All of We News' reporters and editors seemed to be malfunctioning on Friday...

MONTREAL - Quebec's political parties are making a final push for undecided voters as the provincial election campaign enters its last weekend before Monday's vote. The leaders of the five main parties made multiple appearances in the province Saturday...

OTTAWA - Michael J. Fox says the state of the Canada-U.S. relationship is "sad" and "pointless" but he believes ties between Americans and Canadians on the "human level" remain strong. "It's really sad. It's so pointless. And I have to tell you, it doe...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's major party leaders took their election campaigns to the Okanagan Friday to talk about fire safety and the high cost of groceries. Interim Conservative party leader Lorne Doerkson is promising to spend half a billion doll...

VICTORIA - A British Columbia man who defaced a historic synagogue in Victoria with "unquestionably hateful" statements has been sentenced to eight months in jail. B.C. provincial court Judge Micah Rankin's ruling released this week says Arthur Robert...

OTTAWA - Canada and its fellow industrialized countries in the G7 agreed Friday to release 100 million barrels of oil and fuel products in the coming weeks. The pledge includes the release of "substantial" amounts of diesel after prices for the fuel re...

LANGLEY - Five foreign nationals are in police custody and face a string of charges arising out of an RCMP extortion investigation involving members of British Columbia's South Asian community. Supt. Harm Dosange, with the Langley RCMP, said Friday th...

OTTAWA - Liberal MP Salma Zahid says she's concerned about escalating violent rhetoric directed at MPs - including the leader of another party. "We need to lower the temperature," Zahid told The Canadian Press. "The reality we are living in is (that) s...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Canadian astronaut reaches International Space Station for six-month mission Friday marks Canadian astronaut Jeremy Kutryk's first full day in space after he and h...