CALGARY - The lawyer for former Calgary mayor Jyoti Gondek is arguing police have no reason to hold onto her phone any longer as they investigate her and others for municipal corruption. "An admission that there is no timeline, that there's no capabili...

Former Liberal MP and MPP Han Dong says he's running for Toronto city council. Dong says in a social media post that he declared today to run for the ward of Scarborough North in the municipal election this fall. He represented the Ontario Liberals as ...

Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative Party government is offering Albertans a payment of $100 to help pay their bills. She said the payment will be made instead of the province reducing its tax on gasoline at the pumps, redistributing what Albe...

OTTAWA - The immigration department says it has temporarily paused the finalization of some new citizenship by descent applications after "a few dozen" people were told their issued citizenship certificates must be surrendered pending a review. A state...

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is suggesting it's too late to put an anti-coal mining petition question to a provincewide referendum this fall. Earlier this month, Alberta musician Corb Lund delivered what he said were more than 200,000 signa...

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Wednesday that a group of Indigenous chiefs need to "check themselves," after they accused her of potential treasonous activity for calling a separation vote. The Assembly of Treaty Chiefs, representing First Nations...

MONTREAL - Quebec's police ethics commissioner says it is reviewing a complaint about serious allegations of racism and misconduct by Montreal police officers filed by a civil rights advocacy group. The Red Coalition asked the commissioner to investiga...

OTTAWA - A group of climate advocates is suing the federal government, saying recent policy changes have put it off track to meet Canada's legislated emission reduction targets. An application for judicial review filed on Monday asks the Federal Court ...

The B.C. government has launched an upgrade on the provincial hydro system in an effort to increase the power supply by another seven per cent. Energy Minister Adrian Dix announced the improvements on Wednesday, two days after saying the government was...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Reserve kept its key rate unchanged Wednesday yet almost half the central bank's policymakers said they could support a rate hike later this year. The unexpectedly aggressive tilt toward higher rates would di...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he would rather not have the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement in place and offered a confusing message on the trade pact's future. "We do better without that agreement," Trump told reporters in F...

OTTAWA - Canada will take a harder stance on intimate partner violence after a Conservative MP's private member's bill became law Wednesday. The Criminal Code will soon be updated to allow the killer of an intimate partner to be charged with first-degr...

TROIS-RIVIÈRES - Police are investigating after an Islamic culture centre northeast of Montreal was vandalized overnight. Mohamed Toubal, president of Centre Culturel Islamique de la Mauricie, says people who showed up for morning prayers found rocks a...

TABER - The controversy over a town billboard urging Alberta leave Canada has now mushroomed into three signs. The man behind the campaign says town officials who demanded he remove the first sign appear to be backing down. "They've gone to ground," Co...

OTTAWA - A senior federal bureaucrat has been named the interim commissioner of Indigenous languages. Candice St-Aubin, a senior assistant deputy minister of strategic policy with Indigenous Services Canada, will serve in the role for 90 days or until ...

VANCOUVER - They arrived in Vancouver on a free flight chartered by the Emir of Qatar and are staying at a five-star downtown hotel. Mohmoud Alban, 30, said his "king," Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, picked up the hotel tab too, for him and other Qa...

QUÉBEC - Warning about the public's growing skepticism toward institutions, Quebec's bar association says it will hold a summit on the rule of law ahead of October's provincial election. The summit, described as the first of its kind in Quebec, is exp...

OTTAWA - A new poll released Wednesday suggests 90 per cent of people in B.C. support local water restrictions. Leger surveyed 1,512 Canadians between June 12 and June 15, including 206 residents of British Columbia. The poll cannot be assigned a margi...

CULTUS LAKE - The agency that oversees safety at B.C. amusement parks says investigators have found "electrical non compliances" at Cultus Lake Waterpark where a group of 12 schoolchildren suffered electrical burns on Monday. Technical Safety BC, whic...

Technical Safety BC says in a statement that the park's owner will need to fix "all hazards" before reopening, and while the closure may be disappointing for families, safety is the top priority.

OTTAWA - Canada's spy service obtained a judge's permission to disrupt cyberthreats from foreign adversaries who infected digital devices with malware. A Federal Court ruling made public this week says the Canadian Security Intelligence Service request...

OTTAWA - Two lawyers say the blurring of language on the right of First Nations to clean drinking water in a new bill serves as a shield for the federal government as it argues against that right in court. Indigenous Services Minister Mandy Gull-Masty ...

HALIFAX - A judge has handed a Nova Scotia man a conditional discharge after he was convicted of hacking into a provincial government employee's social media account and posting an antisemitic message that led to her firing. A provincial court heard th...

MONTREAL - The RCMP say one of their officers in Quebec has been charged with threatening U.S. President Donald Trump on social media. In a news release, RCMP say Evenson Dumerlus, 34, of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Que., is facing one count of uttering thr...

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Cathay Wagantall says she plans to resign her seat in the House of Commons at the end of the summer. Wagantall, who has represented the riding of Yorkton-Melville since 2015, previously said she would stay on until the next ele...

ATLANTA (AP) - Georgia's Republican legislative leaders on Wednesday rejected Gov. Brian Kemp's call to redraw congressional and legislative districts during a special session, citing concerns about moving too quickly after a U.S. Supreme Court decisio...

OTTAWA - The number of Canadians reporting having been directly affected by extreme weather events has increased since a year ago, a new poll suggests. An online poll by Leger of 1,512 Canadians from June 12-15 indicates 30 per cent of respondents said...

According to the RCMP, Evenson Dumerlus, of St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, allegedly shared the comments on his Snapchat account while he was working security at the G7 summit in Kananaskis in 2025.

OTTAWA - Amnesty International Canada and the Canadian Council for Refugees have filed a new Federal Court challenge to the constitutionality of the Safe Third Country Agreement with the U.S. that says refugees must claim asylum in whichever country th...

OTTAWA - Cuba is prepared for a fight with the United States and is praising Canada for its humanitarian aid, says a senior diplomat visiting Ottawa from Havana. "We would never want a conflict with the United States but we are very conscious about the...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin said the "fracturing" relationship between Canada and the United States needs to be restored to ensure security in both countries, making the claim that pressures on Mexican cartels have fo...

LUNENBURG - The mayor of a tourist hot spot on Nova Scotia's southwestern coast has been banned from using a taxi service in the community for allegedly being involved in a drunken, late-night confrontation with a driver. The Town of Lunenburg, a UNES...

Transport Canada knew the uncertified vessel was operating out of St. John's, N.L., but the department did not oversee those operations, leaving its occupants at risk, the investigation concluded.

The Liberal government isn't saying if it will act on a parliamentary committee report that's expected to recommend against making people with mental illness eligible for medical assistance in dying.

VANCOUVER - Former U.S. Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem has joined B.C. mineral exploration company NovaRed Mining Inc. in a strategic advisory role. The company says Noem, who is special envoy to the Shield of the Americas, will support NovaRe...

QUÉBEC - Another Coalition Avenir Québec cabinet minister is leaving politics. Labour Minister Jean Boulet said today in his riding of Trois-Rivières that he won't run for another term in the Oct. 5 provincial election. First elected in 2018, Boulet h...

A jury that accepts such a defense would be obligated to convict Mangione of manslaughter instead of murder, which could put him behind bars for the rest of his life.

Animal protection group Galahad SPCA has said it believed the kangaroo escaped from a horse stable where it was being kept without the necessary permits.

MONTRÉAL - A Quebec zoo says a red kangaroo is doing well after it was captured after several days on the lam on Montreal's South Shore. The Granby Zoo says the animal is eating normally and resting up after four days of bouncing around the fields nea...

Drivers who came upon the burning plane, which was nearly sheared in half and tipped on its side, captured dramatic rescue scenes on video or rushed toward the aircraft on foot to help.

While the Carney government has said its plans for CBC/Radio-Canada include getting Canada into the Eurovision international song contest, it has not moved to update the broadcaster's mandate.

The decrease came as the preliminary number of non-permanent residents fell by 117,879 people in the first three months of the year compared with a decline of 55,194 a year ago.

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada estimates the population edged down 0.1 per cent in the first quarter of this year as the number of non-permanent residents dropped. The agency estimated the population at 41,417,056 on April 1, down 55,025 people from Jan. 1...

OTTAWA - CBC/Radio-Canada's news and current affairs content should be periodically analyzed by outside experts "in order to assess its fairness and balance," a new Senate committee report says. Senators were asked at a press conference Wednesday wheth...

ST. JOHN'S - The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says a submersible that imploded on its way to the Titanic wreck was operating in Canada without any oversight, and it is asking federal authorities to look closer at uncertified vessels. The board...