MONTREAL - Air Canada chief executive Michael Rousseau will retire later this year after coming under fire last week for his inability to deliver a video condolence message in French following a plane crash that killed two Air Canada Express pilots. Th...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Lewis begins NDP leadership with Prairie tension and a big rebuilding task ahead New NDP Leader Avi Lewis begins his term in earnest with two major tasks ahead --...

WINNIPEG - NDP Leader Avi Lewis begins his term with the task of rebuilding the federal party in his unapologetically progressive vision, but there is already resistance from the leadership of the Alberta and Saskatchewan branches. Lewis won a first-ba...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government has dismissed a Toronto man's proposal to keep politicians honest in an age of misinformation, saying there are already several ways to fight falsehoods. Federico Sanchez initiated an electronic petition to the House of ...

OTTAWA - Major Canadian banks and pension funds have provided tens of billions of dollars to American contractors for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, an investigation by the non-profit Stand.earth has found. The environmental advoc...

MONTREAL - Fraser Place says gender-affirming surgery will finally allow him to feel comfortable in his own body. But the 26-year-old Montrealer says that sense of comfort feels excruciatingly far away. Recently, GrS Montreal, the sole clinic in Queb...

EDMONTON - Alberta's premier says she welcomes diverse opinions in her caucus after a legislature member of her United Conservative Party opined a referendum on separation is good for the province. Danielle Smith also reiterated on her provincewide rad...

MONTRÉAL - A French-Palestinian member of the European Parliament says she was denied entry into Canada only days before she was scheduled to participate in conferences in Montreal. Rima Hassan wrote online that she was "prevented" from coming to Canad...

COUTTS - Amid the howling winds of the Sweet Grass Hills lies Border Road, a 14-kilometre ribbon of manicured gravel stretching between the United States and Canada. The shared road is on the Montana side, but Alberta maintains it. North of the road li...

WINNIPEG - Filmmaker Avi Lewis has been elected as the NDP's new leader, defeating his four rivals on the first ballot with nearly 40,000 votes, from almost 71,000 ballots cast. His victory signals a shift by the party towards unabashedly left-wing po...

WASHINGTON - Jenni Gibbons was always drawn to the stars. Now, the Calgary-born astronaut is set to take part in NASA's Artemis II mission, which will send humans to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. "So much of our life is enabled by ...

When Rose Kingdon started her broadcasting career more than 40 years ago, she recalled that it was "love at first on air light." And when she accepted a lifetime achievement award in 2023, she said she was grateful for the opportunity to "make great ra...

China is again denying claims of forced labour in the country as calls grow for Prime Minister Mark Carney to clarify Canada's stance on the issue amid fallout from comments made by Liberal MP Michael Ma that appeared to cast doubt on reported human ri...

It was supposed to be a joyful family reunion, but instead a British Columbia grandmother is stranded in China in a coma, her family unable to pay the hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring her home via air ambulance. Her family says Lilia Avoutova,...

LAVAL - The two candidates vying to replace François Legault as Coalition Avenir Québec leader and Quebec premier faced off over language and immigration in a heated final debate north of Montreal on Saturday. Bernard Drainville and Christine Fréchette...

WINNIPEG - The NDP leadership candidates made their last pitch to voters Saturday morning in a last-ditch effort to win support from the handful of members who have not voted yet. Many of the roughly 1,800 attendees at the Winnipeg convention have alr...

WINNIPEG - The next NDP leader will be announced on Sunday. There are five candidates on the ballot and voting concludes Saturday. Here's a quick look at the candidates and how the last six months have gone for them. Avi Lewis Work: Lewis is a document...

OTTAWA - Gender-equality activists say a Toronto woman who was killed this month after decades pushing for women's rights in her native Iraq would not want Canadians to give up the fight for equality. Toronto resident Yanar Mohammed opened the first wo...

VANCOUVER - BC Hydro says it's relocating and repurposing the majority of its work camp for building the Site C hydroelectric dam to support the construction of the North Coast Transmission Line project, as its construction will begin this summer. A s...

OTTAWA - The federal government has launched a trade inquiry on global imports of frozen and canned vegetables. A statement from the Department of Finance says the government sought the inquiry in response to a request from the Canadian Association of ...

VICTORIA - A University of British Columbia political analyst says calls for the resignation of Independent MLA Hon Chan are appropriate, after the legislator was charged this week in relation to an alleged incident of intimate partner violence in 2024...

EDMONTON - Premier Danielle Smith's parliamentary secretary for constitutional affairs is encouraging Albertans to sign a petition that calls for a vote on separation from Canada. Jason Stephan, a United Conservative Party legislature member, penned hi...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is supporting a ruling this week by the International Olympic Committee that bans transgender women from women's sports at the Games. The policy change comes ahead of the next Olympics in Los Angeles in 202...

VERNON - A man in Vernon, B.C., has been charged with bestiality after he was allegedly captured on security cameras trespassing on a rural property occupied by a horse jumping and training business in January. Court records show the man is due in cou...

OTTAWA - Public servants who are eligible for the federal government's early retirement incentive can now apply for it after waiting months for the program's launch. The program - part of the government's efforts to cut the number of public servants - ...

Canada's national lawyers group has rebuked a call from four premiers for Ottawa to overhaul how it appoints provincial superior court and appeal judges. The premiers of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec wrote this week in a letter to Prime Min...

OTTAWA - Energy Minister Tim Hodgson said Friday the federal government is opposed to forced labour, a day after another Liberal MP cast doubt on China's labour practices. On Thursday, MP Michael Ma apologized after appearing to question reports of hum...

MONTREAL - The Quebec Superior Court has authorized a class-action lawsuit against Uber that accuses the San Francisco-based company of violating the province's Consumer Protection Act with its cancellation fees. Lawyers for the main plaintiff, Valeri...