Category Archives: CP Canada
Advocates call for federal, provincial governments to strengthen child-care system
Child-care advocates called Friday on the federal and provincial governments to commit to strengthening the $10-a-day system, as the ministers responsible met in Ottawa. Most provinces and territories...
Jan 30, 2026
Insurance policy doesn't entitle family to additional rebuilding costs: Supreme Court
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has sided with an insurance company in a dispute over coverage for a family whose home on the Ottawa River was declared a total loss due to flooding. Trillium Mutu...
Jan 30, 2026
Federal deficit $26.4B for April-to-November period: fiscal monitor
OTTAWA - The federal government posted a deficit of $26.4 billion for the first eight months of its 2025-26 fiscal year. In its fiscal monitor, the Finance Department says the result compared with a d...
Jan 30, 2026
Carney calls Trump's U.S. Fed chair pick, Warsh, a 'fantastic choice'
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is offering his seal of approval on U.S. President Donald Trump's pick to lead the U.S. Federal Reserve. Trump said earlier Friday he would nominate former Federal ...
Jan 30, 2026
Ottawa wins Federal Court appeal allowing single-use plastics ban to stand
OTTAWA - The federal government scored a win at the Federal Court of Appeal on Friday, which upheld Ottawa's 2021 decision to list "plastic manufactured items" as toxic, allowing it to continue with i...
Jan 30, 2026
Economy stalled in November, may have contracted in Q4 amid manufacturing decline
OTTAWA - A beleaguered manufacturing sector was weighing on the economy heading into the end of 2025, Statistics Canada said Friday. Real GDP growth was flat in November, rebounding somewhat from a de...
Jan 30, 2026
In the news today: Poilievre to speak in Calgary, Trump threatens tariffs, Oilers win
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Conservatives converge on downtown Calgary, eager to hear from party leader Poilievre Conservative Leader Pier...
Jan 30, 2026
CFIA official tells of threats and harassment that dogged ostrich cull operation
As Canadian Food Inspection Agency workers prepared for a cull of hundreds of ostriches at a British Columbia farm, they came under a variety of harassment from opponents of the operation, said a seni...
Jan 30, 2026
Conservatives vote to keep Pierre Poilievre as leader after speech in Calgary
CALGARY - Pierre Poilievre's position as Conservative leader was cemented Friday after 87.4 per cent of delegates voted in a mandatory leadership review to keep him at the helm of their party. The vot...
Jan 30, 2026
Alberta separatist says members of Smith's caucus have signed referendum petition
EDMONTON - A leader of Alberta's separatist movement says some members of Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative Party caucus have signed the petition looking to force a vote on the province qui...
Jan 30, 2026