OTTAWA - The European Investment Bank has applied for an exemption from foreign bank status in Canada, a move that would bring the lending arm of the European Union one step closer to operating here. The request was published today in the Canada Gazett...

One of the ringleaders of the thwarted Toronto 18 terror plot has been granted full parole after the Parole Board of Canada found he no longer showed "any signs of holding onto extremist beliefs or radical ideologies." Zakaria Amara, who helped recruit...

OTTAWA - International Trade Minister Maninder Sidhu said trade talks between Canada and India advanced over the past week as he led a major trade mission to New Delhi, Bengaluru and Mumbai. A statement from his office said the mission included represe...

British Columbians have started voting in the provincial election without the release of a costed platform from the B.C. Conservatives, whose leader says it will be announced "imminently." Interim leader Lorne Doerkson said at a Metro Vancouver campaig...

CALGARY - Police were working Friday to determine the cause of a fiery bus crash in Calgary that killed three passengers and injured 16 others, including a police officer who helped save a child. Two transit buses and several other vehicles were involv...

TORONTO - Industry Minister Mélanie Joly said Friday the U.S.-based owner of Stelco must uphold job commitments it made when it purchased the Ontario-based steelmaker or risk being forced to sell its Canadian assets. In a speech at the Canadian Club i...

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver police officer involved in the fatal arrest of Myles Gray has addressed the man's family, telling them the "tragic" outcome was never the intention of police. But Const. Beau Spencer had told the public hearing in Vancouver earl...

WINNIPEG - A former Manitoba law dean -- arrested in France amid allegations he mismanaged hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund a posh lifestyle in Canada -- is expected to learn next month if he will be extradited. A court release said Jonathan Bl...

OTTAWA - A judge has found a youth guilty of two terrorism-related charges stemming from an alleged 2023 plan to kill Jewish people in Ottawa. In a verdict delivered Friday, Ontario Superior Court Justice Kerry McVey found the young person guilty of co...

VICTORIA - Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, a longtime British Columbia NDP ally whose late wife was a legislator for the party, has endorsed Green Party Leader Emily Lowan, who was set to cast her vote as advanced polling got underway Friday. Lowan posted...

OTTAWA - Ottawa is adding new express entry points for some permanent residency applicants in "high-wage" jobs, Immigration Minister Lena Diab said Friday. The government also plans to remove the requirement for an employer to prove they can't find a q...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada upheld a decision Friday ordering new trials for two people accused of acting as pimps, after concluding they should have been able to cross-examine a complainant about the commercial aspect of her prior sex work. T...

POINT TUPPER - A company pursuing a wind and hydrogen development in Nova Scotia says it has plans for a $10-billion AI data centre in Cape Breton that it describes as the largest private investment in provincial history. EverWind Fuels announced Frida...

For the second day in a row, the federal government is announcing plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to train more skilled workers in Canada. Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu is in her home riding of Thunder Bay today rolling out a plan to spend u...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Canada must diversify trade away from the U.S. for security reasons: Freeland Former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada must do everything it can ...

EDMONTON - Referendum day in Alberta is on Monday. The provincial referendum has 10 questions about immigration policy, constitutional reform, and whether Alberta should remain in Canada or hold a binding, second referendum on quitting the country. Adv...

EDMONTON - Here are the 10 questions Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is sending to a provincewide referendum on Monday. Question 1: Do you support the government of Alberta taking increased control over immigration for the purposes of decreasing immigra...

EDMONTON - Albertans vote Monday in a referendum asking whether they want the province to stay in Canada or to have a second, binding referendum on separating from Canada. Strains of western alienation go back decades. Here's a look at some key events:...

RED DEER - Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith joined forces at an Alberta brewery Friday to make a last-ditch pitch for Albertans to vote to stay in Canada. Carney stood with Smith and other politicians, crowded shoulder-to-shoulder,...

MONTREAL - With just days before Alberta's vote on an independence referendum, longtime Quebec sovereigntists are distancing themselves from the western province's separatists. Question 10 of 10 on Monday's referendum ballot asks whether Alberta should...

OTTAWA - Members of the Royal Canadian Air Force Snowbirds aerial aerobatics team are set to perform their final air show Friday in Moose Jaw, Sask., before their decades-old Tutor jets head into retirement. The RCAF is set to livestream the annual sea...

OTTAWA - Former deputy prime minister Chrystia Freeland says it's important for national security reasons that Canada do everything it can to diversify trade away from the United States. During a discussion at the Council on Foreign Relations in New Y...

VANCOUVER - Author and former University of British Columbia creative writing chair Steven Galloway has concluded testifying in his defamation lawsuit trial in Vancouver. Galloway, who alleges the defendants defamed him by publishing unproven allegati...

MONTREAL - The Canadian Press is celebrating the 75th anniversary of its French-language service, which sent out its first dispatches on Sept. 30, 1951. Until then, The Canadian Press, founded in 1917, had been sending English-language dispatches to F...

CALGARY - Three people died Thursday when a transit bus set off a chain-reaction crash on a busy Calgary road and rear-ended another bus to ignite an explosion Officials said the three killed were on one of the buses, and more than a dozen others were ...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia Conservatives have dumped a teenage candidate in the provincial election after he was accused of posting "offensive" remarks online about the Holocaust and Hitler. The party said Thursday that Jordan McIntosh was no long...

OTTAWA - Environment and Climate Change Canada warned National Defence earlier this year that the CFB Kingston base had broken federal environmental regulations by failing to test air conditioners for refrigerant leaks. After inspecting a building on t...

VANCOUVER - A second Vancouver police officer involved in the violent arrest that ended in the death of Myles Gray says he had never previously encountered someone in such a state that he believed was a medical situation known as "excited delirium." Co...