Category Archives: CP Canada
May says voting for budget was 'mistake' and it won't happen again
OTTAWA - Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says supporting the Carney government on the budget vote is a "mistake" she won't make again. May told The Canadian Press the memorandum of understanding Prim...
Dec 01, 2025
B.C. community holds vigil to mourn deaths, losses in deadly Hong Kong fire
VANCOUVER - Family members of more than 150 people who died when seven highrises burned in Hong Kong last week "deserve the truth," said Phoebe Wong, who attended a memorial in Vancouver late Sunday f...
Dec 01, 2025
Canadian injured in West Bank in what local group calls assault by Israeli settlers
OTTAWA - Global Affairs Canada said Monday it is aware of a Canadian citizen injured in the West Bank and is providing consular help after what local activists described as an attack by Israeli settle...
Dec 01, 2025
Treasury board president "looking into" potential changes to return to office rules
OTTAWA - Treasury Board president Shafqat Ali on Monday denied having any knowledge about discussions to potentially order public servants to return to the office full time in 2027. Ali was responding...
Dec 01, 2025
Polytechnique expands scholarship program to 14 women in memory of 1989 tragedy
MONTREAL - Polytechnique Montral is expanding its scholarship program honouring the 14 women who were killed at the engineering school 36 years ago. The Order of the White Rose scholarship was establi...
Dec 01, 2025
Activists mark World AIDS Day by calling for criminal reform, prevention funding
OTTAWA - Activists marked World AIDS Day on Monday by calling on the federal government to honour a Trudeau government promise to reform the laws on HIV disclosure, and to provide enough funding to ge...
Dec 01, 2025
Miller named new culture minister as Carney fills gaps left by Guilbeault
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney named Montreal MP Marc Miller as the new minister of Canadian identity and culture on Monday in a small cabinet shuffle to fill holes created when Steven Guilbeault...
Dec 01, 2025
Montreal to open 500 new spaces in warming shelters for unhoused people
MONTREAL - The mayor of Montreal says the city's homelessness crisis is "more serious than ever" and addressing it is her top priority. "The crisis that we have in our hands right now in Montreal has ...
Dec 01, 2025
In the news: New HIV prevention guidelines say doctors should not 'gatekeep' PrEP
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... New HIV prevention guidelines say doctors should not be 'gatekeeping' PrEP A coalition of doctors across Canad...
Dec 01, 2025
Montreal museum spotlights sex workers history of activism and resistance
MONTREAL - When community group Mile End Chavurah held an event in 2023 to name Jewish Montreal's "new patron saint," Maimie Pinzer was the winning choice. As an activist, Pinzer established a communi...
Dec 01, 2025
