Category Archives: CP Canada

What the Canada Post strike means for your passports, pension cheques and more
OTTAWA - With Canada Post workers hitting picket lines, the flow of mail across the country has stopped. Here's what the move means for items you may have been expecting in your mailbox. Mail delivery...
Sep 26, 2025

Canada not part of mass walkout when Israel PM Netanyahu spoke at UN General Assembly
OTTAWA - Canada was not part of a mass walkout Friday morning during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to the United Nations General Assembly. The office of Canadian Ambassador Bob R...
Sep 26, 2025

Statistics Canada says tourism spending up 0.9 per cent in second quarter at $26.5B
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says total tourism spending in the second quarter rose 0.9 per cent as an increase in domestic travel was offset in part by fewer visitors from the U.S. The agency says tota...
Sep 26, 2025

Economic growth in July could give way to stall in August: StatCan
OTTAWA - The Canadian economy grew in July but any momentum may have been short lived, Statistics Canada said Friday. Real gross domestic product grew 0.2 per cent in July, marking the first signs of ...
Sep 26, 2025

Concordia University celebrates 'landmark' fundraising year amid financial challenges
MONTREAL - The president of Montreal's Concordia University says the success of the school's most ambitious funding campaign ever is a heartening "statement of faith" that comes at a difficult time fo...
Sep 26, 2025

In the news today: Postal workers on strike, Carney in U.K., Chinese EV tariff review
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Unionized postal workers on strike nationwide Unionized postal workers are on a nationwide strike this morning...
Sep 26, 2025

Striking Canada Post union urges Ottawa to walk back sweeping mandate changes
OTTAWA - The union representing Canada Post workers is urging Ottawa to walk back sweeping changes to the postal service's mandate as mail carriers take to picket lines across the country. The federal...
Sep 26, 2025

Ottawa says Chinese EV tariff review is 'informal,' with no specific deadline
OTTAWA - The federal government says it is reviewing its decision to impose 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese EVs - but it can't or won't say when the review began, or when it will end. The tariffs took...
Sep 26, 2025

Carney looks to strengthen trade, security ties in U.K. visit
LONDON - Prime Minister Mark Carney is urging "like-minded" countries to work together in the face of the economic and geopolitical "rupture" driven by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff agenda. Car...
Sep 26, 2025

Crew unravels humpback whale from rope and fishing gear off B.C.'s coast
Fader the humpback has been coming back to British Columbia's waters for the last two decades, but this time the whale was spotted with something extra - more than 130 metres of rope and fishing gear....
Sep 26, 2025