Canada Post says the millions of Canadians who write to Santa Claus with their wish lists will get a response this year. A month-long strike by more than 55,000 postal workers last year meant Old Saint Nick couldn't respond to letters, but kids were as...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... McGuinty 'confident' Canada will hit NATO spending targets Defence Minister David McGuinty says he's confident the federal government will hit its NATO defence spe...

OTTAWA - Canada is injecting tens of billions of dollars into defence as it looks to ramp up spending to levels not seen since the Cold War - both to meet its NATO commitments and to juice the domestic economy. But it remains to be seen whether Nationa...

Four months, 50 applications, two interviews, no job. The story of 21-year-old political studies graduate Lauren Hood might sound familiar to others in her generation. "In my mind, after completing the four years and getting my degree, I didn't think i...

VANCOUVER - Young customers and families filter in and out of Foglifter, a bustling café in Vancouver's Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, ordering croissants and lattes. Barista Nicholas Schorn says many, especially millennials, are open about their ritual...

The Canadian Press has been speaking with young people about the financial challenges facing their generation - a tough job market, unaffordable housing and goals that seem out of reach. 'WAITING FOR EVERYTHING TO WORK OUT' A few hours into a night out...

OTTAWA - Industry Minister Mélanie Joly has approved a merger between Canadian natural resources company Teck Resources Ltd. and Britain's Anglo American PLC. Joly says in a statement she has determined the merger will be a net benefit to Canada and ca...

Here's a look at some of year's top photos from The Canadian Press, as selected by editors. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 15, 2025. The Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The Canadian Security Intelligence Service said Monday it sees no indication of a specific threat in Canada following the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia, even as it warns of the "realistic possibility" of an extremist att...

OTTAWA - A member of the Canadian Forces Intelligence Command who is facing charges related to a leak of sensitive information to a foreign entity was released from custody on Monday following a hearing in Gatineau, Que. Master Warrant Officer Matthew ...

VICTORIA - British Columbia legislator Dallas Brodie, whose OneBC party has removed her as leader, said the split happened after colleagues tried to stop her from firing a caucus staffer whose views on Jewish people were "disgusting" and antisemitic. B...

MONTRÉAL - A Quebec teachers' union released the findings of a survey of its members on Monday that found 90 per cent of respondents said they were victims of some form of violence at work. "We are here to teach, not to be beaten up," Catherine Renaud,...

SASKATOON - It was a teen friendship that spiralled into obsession and threats before one girl -- in a school hallway with a squirt of igniter fluid and a lighter -- burned another girl so badly that skin melted off her arms and fused her backpack to h...

The cleanup is starting in British Columbia's Fraser Valley as water that flowed across the border from the Nooksack River in Washington state recedes, but the flood threat remains for several B.C. rivers and has expanded to Metro Vancouver's North Sho...

OTTAWA - The World Anti-Doping Agency is challenging the legal basis of the federal privacy watchdog's investigation into the agency's handling of biological samples collected from athletes. The office of privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne announce...

MONTREAL - Quebec family doctors have until Friday to vote on a deal that would see the provincial government back down on several controversial reforms in a new law that changes how physicians are paid. The tentative deal would scrap performance-rela...

TORONTO - A new study says the COVID-19 vaccine protects pregnant women from getting severely ill or giving birth prematurely. Researchers with the Canadian Surveillance of COVID-19 in Pregnancy (CANCOVID-Preg) program, led by the University of British...

TORONTO - A rabbi killed in the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Australia is being remembered by family members in Toronto for his positivity and commitment to bringing Judaism to others. Eli Schlanger, an assistant rabbi at Chabad of Bondi...

Ottawa's top doctor says the death of three children in the region over the past two weeks from influenza-related complications is unusual and could signify a difficult flu season ahead. Ottawa and Eastern Ontario Health Unit medical officers of health...

Thousands of glaciers across Canada could be saved from total extinction by the end of the century if humanity can bend the curve on global warming, a new global study suggested while offering a grim outlook on one of the world's icons of changing clim...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has been encouraging Prime Minister Mark Carney to steal his ideas on everything from tax cuts to bail reform since the April election - but he says what Carney is doing with those ideas amounts to "counter...

OTTAWA - A federal minister dropped hints about more floor crossings Monday following the defection of Ontario MP Michael Ma to the Liberals last week. When asked whether more opposition MPs are getting ready to cross the floor to join the government, ...

OTTAWA - Natural Resource Minister Tim Hodgson says he'll launch a task force early in the new year to look at ways to ensure the long-term health of the softwood lumber industry. Speaking in Toronto, Hodgson says the group will bring recommendations f...

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in November, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated widely because they are based on small statistical samples (pr...

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in November, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrador: 2.2 per cent (2.0) - Prince Edward Island: 1.4 per cent (1.4)...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... 'High impact' warning as heavy rains forecast to cause more flooding in B.C. The B.C. government says heavy rains in the forecast may cause more flooding in low-ly...

MONTREAL - Joshua Bujold, an upbeat psychology student in his first semester at Montreal's Dawson College, was taken aback to find out that happiness among young Canadians has plunged. Outside Quebec, that is. Bujold's home province is an outlier among...

TORONTO - For years, Stéphane Cliche was a healthy avid athlete, but he kept getting sinus and respiratory infections and doctors couldn't figure out why. It wasn't until he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2016 that it became clear his imm...