OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has named his principal secretary Tom Pitfield to the Senate and says he is dropping the non-partisan criteria for appointments to the upper chamber. Pitfield is one of four new appointments to the Senate announced t...

The latest from the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Canada. All times are Eastern: 9:10 a.m. Canada's role in the 2026 World Cup comes to an end today as Vancouver's BC Place hosts a match between Switzerland and Colombia. Switzerland advanced by winning its gr...

ANKARA - NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte says the alliance is looking to work with Swedish manufacturer Saab on up to 10 radar jets largely built in Canada. Rutte told an audience at the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey, that its current fleet is to be ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Carney arrives in Turkey for high-level NATO talks with German, South Korean leaders Prime Minister Mark Carney has landed in Ankara, Turkey, where he's set to ha...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver is set to host its seventh and final World Cup match today, in a final hurrah at BC Place for an event that galvanized the city's diaspora communities and drew thousands of fans from across the country and the globe. The round-of-...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government says it's exploring legal options after the mass shooting where eight people were killed in Tumbler Ridge. Attorney General Niki Sharma is expected to meet with media today about those options, five months a...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday named German defence manufacturer TKMS as the preferred bidder to supply the Royal Canadian Navy's next fleet of submarines, though the company's CEO says the real work "begins now." Part of the next phase ...

MONTREAL - The public memorial for the Montreal police officer killed in a brazen outdoor shooting last month will be held at the Bell Centre today. A procession in Mohamed Lamine Benredouane's honour will start at police headquarters at 10 a.m. ET an...

ANKARA - Prime Minister Mark Carney met with Turkish President Recep Erdogan and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy Tuesday on the margins of the NATO leaders' summit in Ankara. Carney met with Erdogan, who is hosting the annual event, shortly aft...

VICTORIA - The federal government's submarine contract with a German company offers a "tremendous amount of opportunity" to propel British Columbia's shipping industry, political and business leaders say. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced in Halifax...

VANCOUVER - Beer and mimosas were flowing on Granville Street on the eve of Vancouver's World Cup swansong. Even as the city prepared to host its seventh and final match of the tournament - a round-of-16 match between Switzerland and Colombia on Tuesda...

OTTAWA - Finance Minster François-Philippe Champagne asserted Monday that the Liberals are keeping federal finances under control even as key defence and infrastructure spending details remain under wraps. Champagne told reporters Ottawa has been "very...

OTTAWA - A grieving New Brunswick father has launched an organization to support the families of foreigners who have disappeared, died or been captured while fighting in Ukraine's foreign legion. "Pain has no nationality. Hope has no border," Marc Maze...

Watching Canada embrace the FIFA World Cup has been a "breathtaking" experience for Kevin Blue. The co-host nation rallied not only behind the tournament, but truly celebrated the country's team, said Canada Soccer's CEO. "There was one instance where...

British Columbia's chief coroner says the work of the coroners service is not like the portrayal in crime-scene television shows, and those who take on the job might find it's not for them. Dr. Jatinder Baidwan said in an interview on Monday that ther...

WASHINGTON - A Republican congresswoman for New York said she is introducing legislation to compel the United States Trade Representative to conduct an investigation into Canadian provinces that are not purchasing American alcohol. "Canadian provinces ...

RICHMOND - About 100 mourners gathered at a public dock in Richmond, B.C., to commemorate six victims missing and feared drowned after a charter boat sinking in the Strait of Georgia a week earlier. Dozens of bouquets of white flowers, a symbol of mou...

OTTAWA - A federal union is planning to add millions of dollars to its strike fund ahead of what it expects to be "challenging" contract talks this fall. The Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada is set to negotiate new contracts for ...

OTTAWA - Astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who made a historic trip around the moon aboard NASA's Artemis 2 mission in April, is leaving the Canadian Space Agency. A statement released by the agency said Hansen will pursue "new professional opportunities" as of...

MONTRÉAL - Quebec's police watchdog has set up a command post in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges neighbourhood to find witnesses to a shooting that killed an officer and bystander. Members of the independent watchdog, known as the Bureau des enquêtes indépe...

MONTREAL - The mayor of a suburban city northeast of Montreal where 46 railcars ran off the tracks on Sunday says he is relieved because the crash could have been a lot worse. "We were really lucky in our misfortune," Repentigny Mayor Nicolas Dufour s...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government on Monday named Germany's ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems as the preferred bidder to build the navy's next fleet of submarines. That means Canada will now enter into months of closed-door negotiatio...

OTTAWA - Justice Alan Diner is the new Federal Court chief justice, replacing Paul Crampton who retired at the end of October. Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Diner's appointment in a news release Monday. The new chief justice takes on a leaders...

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Ontario Premier Doug Ford unveiled Monday a route for a proposed west-east oil pipeline. The two premiers say it would stretch 3,300 kilometres from Hardisty, Alta., to refineries in Sarnia, Ont., without cr...

The latest from the 2026 FIFA World Cup in Canada. All times are Eastern: 9:59 p.m. Romelu Lukaku scores three minutes into second-half stoppage time to give Belgium a 4-1 lead. The clock runs out and Belgium books a quarterfinal date with Spain on Fri...

TORONTO - Ottawa is promising to simplify procurement processes to make it easier for small- and medium-sized businesses to land federal contracts. Procurement Minister Joël Lightbound is in Toronto today to announce plans to fix the clunky mechanisms ...

HALIFAX - Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday named German defence manufacturer TKMS as the preferred bidder to supply the Royal Canadian Navy's next fleet of submarines, and he said several are expected to be delivered by 2034. Carney made the announ...

TORONTO - Betrayed. Dehumanized. Devastated.
 These are the words some Canadians use to describe how they feel about a special government committee recommending not to expand medical assistance in dying to people seeking the procedure for a mental illn...