HALIFAX - The Royal Canadian Navy says a sailor has died in the Bedford Basin after a boat capsized. The Navy says two sailors were operating a rigid-hull inflatable boat in the Halifax-area bay when it overturned and capsized around 10 p.m. on Friday. It says a rescue effort by the Joint Rescue and Coordination Centre...

QUÉBEC - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has met with the families of six men who were killed at a Quebec City mosque, days before the anniversary of the 2017 attack. Eight years ago, on Jan. 29, 2017, Alexandre Bissonnette killed six men at the Centre culturel islamique du Québec and this year the centre h...

OTTAWA - Liberal leadership hopeful Mark Carney secured two more endorsements from cabinet on Saturday. Defence Minister Bill Blair backed Carney in a statement on X, while Nate Erskine-Smith hosted an event for the former Bank of Canada governor in his Toronto riding. MP Adam van Koeverden also endorsed Carney on Satu...

MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police have opened a homicide investigation after a death in the Montérégie region of the province on Saturday. Police say they were called to a home in Saint-Anicet, Que., around 45 kilometres southwest of Montreal, at about 9 a.m. Police spokesperson Camille Savoie says the ...

VANCOUVER - A climate activist in British Columbia says he's packing his bags and plans to report to the Vancouver airport later Saturday to face deportation back to Pakistan, believing his removal from Canada is "certain" without ministerial intervention. Zain Haq, who first came to Canada on a student visa,...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a recall notice for two kinds of canned Century-brand flaked tuna. The agency says two types of the brand's "hot and spicy" tuna were found to contain wheat, which was not listed in the ingredients. A notice warns people with wheat or gluten allergies no...

MONTREAL - Montreal police say they have transferred an investigation to Quebec's police watchdog after officers shot a man in his 20s overnight. Montreal police spokesperson Véronique Dubuc says officers were called to an apartment at around 1:40 a.m. Saturday in the Sud-Ouest borough of Montreal. Dubuc says a ...

The Kenya Ice Lions have hit the big league, and the Canadian who helped make it happen says now may be the time to hang up his whistle. Head coach Tim Colby says it's been impressive to watch the ice hockey team in Nairobi, Kenya, go from a few newbies to a large group that's received international recognition. In Oct...

MONTREAL - Fabrice Mugabe passes the ball beyond the opposition defender to Jean-Philippe Duré, who strikes it into the gloves of the goalkeeper, an intervention worker at the Montreal homeless shelter where both men are staying. For the men on the indoor field in Montreal's Plateau neighbourhood, it was the fir...

OTTAWA - In one of his first acts upon taking office Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump pardoned or moved to dismiss the cases of some 1,500 people charged in the Capitol riots of Jan. 6, 2021. The sentences of 14 people, including several convicted of seditious conspiracy, were reduced to the time they had already se...

Bill Wilson, a hereditary chief and the father of former cabinet minister Jody Wilson-Raybould, has died. Wilson-Raybould announced his death on social media, saying her father's life was "one of leadership and striving to make change." Wilson helped get Indigenous title to land and treaty rights enshrined in...

OTTAWA - The federal government is providing a $1-billion loan to Canada Post to help the Crown corporation continue operating amid "significant financial challenges." Canada Post says it was notified it will receive the $1.034 billion in repayable funding through the 2025-26 fiscal year. Canada Post says tha...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia climate activist Zain Haq and his wife Sophia Papp are planning to live together in Pakistan if his threatened deportation proceeds on Saturday, and blame his imminent expulsion on bureaucratic failings by immigration officials. Haq, a Pakistani citizen who co-founded activist group Save Ol...

OTTAWA - Defence Minister Bill Blair says Canada could hit its NATO defence spending target within just a few years if need be but didn't commit to doing so. NATO members have all committed to spend the equivalent of two per cent of its GDP on defence but Canada has consistently failed to reach that target. Last summer...

VANCOUVER - Critics are denouncing Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim's plan for revitalizing the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood, with former councillor Jean Swanson saying his proposal to pause supportive housing construction is "Trumpian." Swanson, an anti-poverty activist, says Sim's plans to pause net new supportiv...

WINNIPEG, MANITOBA, CANADA - The union representing front-line Mounties says it has not seen an internal RCMP memo calling for short-term staff transfers to Manitoba and Saskatchewan, but says those provinces are under severe workload stress. Bobby Baker, the National Police Federation's director for the Prairies, says...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford plans to call a snap election Wednesday, seeking an even larger majority than his current government holds and using the threat of 25 per cent tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump as a justification. That election call would send Ontarians to the polls on Feb. 27, more than a year before t...

OTTAWA - The federal industry minister is calling for a review of Ottawa's "business relationship" with Amazon after the company said it will close all seven of its warehouses in Quebec. The closure will eliminate 1,700 permanent jobs and 250 temporary ones, and comes after workers at an Amazon warehouse in t...

MONTREAL - Canadian authorities are planning to open a processing centre for asylum seekers near the United States border in Quebec in case there is a sharp rise in the number of would-be refugees entering Canada. Earlier this week, the federal government published a notice seeking office space it could lease to accomm...

HALIFAX - Long before Brenda Tatlock-Burke was killed by her husband in October, there were signs of his controlling and coercive behaviour. "As my mom's kids, if we said something he disapproved of, we were literally not allowed to go and see her," Tatlock-Burke's daughter, Tara Graham, said of her stepfathe...

OTTAWA - David Moscovic, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor, says it's scary to see things he never thought he would see again - such as a powerful man like Elon Musk using a "German salute." Moscovic, who lives in Ottawa, is referring to the tech mogul making a straight-arm gesture similar to a Nazi salute as ...

OTTAWA - Ottawa's former chief trade negotiator Steve Verheul says Alberta is undermining Canada's attempts to prevent the U.S. from levying damaging tariffs. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has rallied most of the premiers to agree that all sectors of the Canadian economy could be deployed to fight back against U.S. Pre...

MONTREAL - A 42-year-old woman is dead and her 21-year-old son has been arrested in what Montreal police say is the city's first murder of the year. Police spokesperson Mariane Allaire Morin says a 911 call came in Thursday morning for a welfare check at a home in the LaSalle borough, west of downtown Montreal. Inside ...

A Quebec man has been sentenced to 30 years in United States federal prison for his role in an international drug ring that imported millions of fake Xanax pills into that country. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says Arden McCann, 37, has been sentenced by a judge in Georgia for being "one of the largest...

IQALUIT - The Crown and defence are recommending a prison sentence of six years for a former Catholic priest who pleaded guilty to indecent assault against several Inuit children decades ago. A courtroom in Iqaluit has heard horrific details of the sexual abuse Eric Dejaeger inflicted on six girls and one boy between 1...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Liberals meet in Ottawa amid leadership race The Liberals are gathering on Parliament Hill for a second day in a row to talk next steps as the party searches for a replacement for outgoing leader Justin Trudeau. The candidates onl...

OTTAWA - The Liberals are gathering on Parliament Hill for a second day in a row to talk next steps as the party searches for a replacement for outgoing leader Justin Trudeau. The candidates only have until Monday to sign up new members who can vote for them in the race. Thursday marked the cutoff deadline for contesta...

Poppy, a six-year-old springer spaniel with floppy brown ears and a tail that never seems to stop wagging, is by all accounts a very good dog. Her white, brown speckled nose has also made her something of a trailblazer. In a first-of-its-kind study, Poppy was able to do something with ease that's proven far more challe...