MONTREAL - The leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec says her party would make it easier for doctors to work in both the public and private sectors if it forms a new government after the Oct. 5 provincial election. Christine Fréchette's promise is a re...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne will meet with his U.S. counterpart on the sidelines of the G20 finance ministers' meetings in North Carolina this week. Champagne's spokesperson John Fragos confirmed in a media statement that the ...

NIAGARA FALLS - Canada's last captive whales are set to leave the country on Monday as six belugas from Marineland are shipped to two aquariums in the United States. The closed Niagara Falls, Ont., tourist attraction is up for sale and the park has sa...

FREDERICTON - Canadian author Paris Marx says there's been a renewed interest in his list of alternatives to American technology in the past few weeks. Marx, who hosts the Tech Won't Save Us podcast, maintains a catalogue of email services, mobile pho...

OTTAWA - Family members of the late Barbara Kentner are demanding that the Parole Board of Canada explain why it granted her attacker full parole without first meeting with them. Kentner was walking on a street in Thunder Bay, Ont., with her sister in ...

MONTREAL - Quebec Cardinal Marc Ouellet has won his civil defamation suit against a woman who accused him of sexual misconduct. Superior Court Justice Martin Castonguay ruled that Paméla Groleau's accusations against the cardinal are unfounded and ord...

OTTAWA - The federal government is asking a Federal Court judge to toss out a lawsuit accusing Ottawa of having no intention of meeting its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions target. In recent court filings, government lawyers argued the Federal Court doesn...

OTTAWA - The Belgian federal prosecutor's office says a Canadian facing espionage charges will remain in custody. After a hearing today of the woman's appeal of a July decision to keep her in detention, Belgium's Chamber of Indictments decided to exten...

OTTAWA - The top bureaucrat in charge of attracting foreign investment to Canada has quit weeks before a high-profile summit aimed at doing exactly that. Laurel Broten, a former Ontario cabinet minister, is set to resign as chief executive officer of I...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump contacted Apple directly to pressure the tech giant to change the name of Lake Ontario to "Lake America," a top administration official said Monday. U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told the Fox Business netw...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Voting to begin in federal byelections in Toronto, Vancouver and Chicoutimi ridings Voting gets underway today in byelections in three federal ridings, including w...

OTTAWA - Voting was underway Monday in federal byelections in Quebec, B.C. and Ontario taking place under the shadow of an intensifying trade war with the United States. Elections Canada reports that thousands have already cast votes in advance polls i...

SASKATOON - A man in prison for killing two Mounties in Saskatchewan 20 years ago told court today his blue pickup truck that prosecutors want surrendered still holds value for its parts. Curtis Dagenais also told court the Crown's request to have the...

OTTAWA - Nepalese community organizations across the country cancelled annual cultural festivals over the weekend following the devastating flash flooding that struck Nepal and China. This weekend would normally be the annual Teej festival, a Hindu pra...

Affordability and the economy took the spotlight on Sunday as Quebec's election campaign entered its fourth day, with party leaders unveiling their visions to ease financial pressures while grappling with the province's budgetary constraints. The Quebe...

OTTAWA - Google Maps has updated to display "Lake America" for users located in the United States, after President Donald Trump signed an executive order this week to rename the Great Lake. Users in Canada will still see it displayed as Lake Ontario on...

OTTAWA - A trio of federal byelections are set for Monday in Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia. Two of the ridings are considered fairly safe Liberal seats, both of which were vacated by former cabinet ministers. In Quebec, where voters had elected...

OTTAWA - Canada needs to make further cuts to the number of temporary residents in the country and generate better tracking data when they leave the country, the head of an expert panel on immigration said. Parisa Mahboubi chairs the C.D. Howe Institut...

B.C. Premier David Eby has called a byelection for next month in the riding of Abbotsford-Mission, where embattled Conservative Leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay is set to run. Eby's New Democrats said Saturday that former agriculture minister Pam Alexis, who...

MONTREAL - Parti Québécois Leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon's plan to more than halve temporary immigration in Quebec drew criticism from his rivals Saturday, who accused him of making immigrants bear the blame for problems in public schools and of risk...

The brother of a Canadian man among those missing after flash floods swept through an area along the Nepal-Tibet border says their family is on edge waiting for information. Dhaval Shah and his wife Megha Shah, from Port Moody, B.C., were on a spiritua...

EDMONTON - Alberta separatists converged outside the legislature in Edmonton on Saturday afternoon ahead of the province's birthday, with many praying, listening to sermons and saying Alberta would be better off without Canada after having joined Confe...

OTTAWA - A massive increase in immigration cases in the last six years has created unmanageable workloads at the Federal Court, says Chief Justice Alan Diner. The Federal Court has jurisdiction over a number of immigration matters, such as visa applica...

A historic home popularly known as the Little Red House has been destroyed by fire after standing in the Township of Langley for almost 140 years. The township's archives say the home properly known as Mclver House burned down early on Thursday. It say...

British Columbia legislator and Indigenous leader Joan Phillip has died, with Premier David Eby honouring her as an "epic fighter." The Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs said in a statement on Friday that the NDP MLA died peacefully Friday aftern...

OTTAWA - Canada's privacy commissioner is asking the Federal Court to order Google to de-list specific search results, after Google refused to comply with the watchdog's recommendations. Privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne's office said a year ago t...

VANCOUVER - One of the men found guilty in the so-called "Surrey Six" killings in 2007 has lost his bid for a stay of proceedings, meaning his convictions for first-degree murder still stand. Cody Haevischer alleged he suffered an abuse of process, but...

OTTAWA - Indigenous leaders and advocates are outraged after U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America on Thursday. The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari:io, which means "...