Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Ottawa silent on Trump sanctioning Canadian judge Advocates for international law say Ottawa is letting Washington chip away at the global rules-based order by remaining silent a week into American sanctions against a Canadian jur...

OTTAWA - Canada will get its first look today at a national report examining how abuse and maltreatment are handled in sport, and where protections for athletes are falling short. The Future of Sport in Canada Commission, created by the federal government in 2023 after athletes spoke out about systemic abuse, is led by...

OTTAWA - Advocates for international law say Ottawa is letting Washington chip away at the global rules-based order by remaining silent a week into American sanctions against a Canadian jurist. On Aug. 20, the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump slapped sanctions on Kimberly Prost, a judge on the Internationa...

VANCOUVER - When police attended a single-room occupancy building in East Vancouver three years ago, they found the body of "Jimmy" Van Chung Pham, a man with a criminal history who would later be described as a predator by the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs. What police did not notice at the time we...

OTTAWA - Canada Post is urging the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to revisit its offers after meeting at the bargaining table Wednesday. The Crown corporation says the union has "maintained or hardened" its position on many items and added new demands and that the gap between the parties remains "subst...

MONTREAL - Anti-smoking advocates are calling on provinces to use money from a historic tobacco settlement on public health programs. In March, an Ontario judge approved a $32.5-billion plan requiring three major tobacco companies to pay out billions of dollars in compensation to provinces, territories and former smoke...

VANCOUVER - The British Columbia Lottery Corp. says it was wrongly penalized more than $1 million for anti-money laundering and terrorist financing violations earlier this year by a federal watchdog. The lottery corporation says in a notice of appeal filed last week in Federal Court that the Financial Transactions and ...

MONTRÉAL - Quebec's former minister of Cybersecurity and Digital Technology has told a public inquiry he knew the provincial auto insurance board's digital transition project was over budget in 2021. Éric Caire made the comments while testifying before the Gallant Commission, which is investigating how th...

EDGEWOOD, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - The Federal Court of Appeal ruled on Aug. 21 that a cull of about 400 ostriches can proceed at a British Columbia ostrich farm that suffered an avian flu outbreak. Here are five things to know about the situation at Universal Ostrich Farms in Edgewood, B.C. 1. What did the court dec...

BURNABY - The city council in Burnaby, B.C., has agreed to ask the federal government to impose a two-way arms embargo on Israel. The motion, which drew cheers in the council chamber when it was passed unanimously on Tuesday night, also commits the city to signing an "apartheid-free" community pledge. Coun. A...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says temporary foreign workers are taking jobs from young Canadians while youth unemployment is high. Poilievre made the comment today during a press conference in Charlottetown, several days after the government released mid-year immigration data. On Monday, Poilievre said...

OTTAWA - Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the federal government and municipalities across Ontario should mandate their workers to return to the office full time. Speaking to reporters in Inglewood, Ont., Wednesday, Ford applauded the City of Ottawa's recent decision to require its employees to work five days a week in t...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver International Airport says it is running as normal after staffing shortfalls at Canada's air navigation provider led to cancellations and delays on Tuesday. The airport had reported significant delays due to "staffing constraints" at NAV CANADA. An update posted to the airport's X accoun...

MONTREAL - Montreal police say they have arrested a suspect after an Israeli flag on display outside a suburban town hall was set on fire. On Tuesday police arrested a 39-year-old man in the Villeray-St-Michel-Parc-Extension borough, and arson squad investigators seized items from an apartment. The investigation was ca...

WASHINGTON - Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc's office says he is leaving Washington today with a sense that progress was made after a meeting with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. LeBlanc's office says the minister spent around 90 minutes with Lutnick on Tuesday in a constructive meeting where they sp...

OTTAWA - Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson says the federal government's new major projects office will launch this week, a key element in the Ottawa's push to spur companies into building new large-scale infrastructure. The Liberal government rushed its major projects bill through Parliament in June so it could s...

OTTAWA - The federal privacy commissioner says individuals have the right to have some information de-listed from search engine results but Google is refusing to comply. The commissioner's office says Google won't implement a recommendation to de-list specific articles in the search results for an individual's name. Th...

ĀDAŽI - Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Latvia this morning visiting troops stationed as part of Canada's largest overseas mission. Latvia is home to Operation Reassurance, a multi-national deployment of troops meant to deter against Russian aggression in Europe's eastern flank. Canada is the lead nation of the depl...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Canadian cash helps rebuild kids hospital in Kyiv Workers dangle from ropes as they brush the last bit of white paint on the trim of the Okhmatdyt children's cardiac hospital in Kyiv. Below them, a damaged children's stroller and ...

KYIV - Workers dangle from ropes as they brush the last bit of white paint on the trim of the Okhmatdyt children's cardiac hospital in Kyiv. Below them, a damaged children's stroller and construction supplies sit atop a tree-covered garbage heap. Windows of some surrounding buildings are still boarded up with plywood. ...

TORONTO - Researchers say pediatricians, family doctors and parents need to learn more about what kind of performance-enhancing substances kids are using when they work out or play sports. Seventeen per cent of more than 800 Canadian pediatric specialists surveyed say they saw adolescents who needed medical attention d...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia anglers have been standing shoulder to shoulder on stretches of the Fraser River this week, hoping to hook a sockeye salmon during a rare recreational opportunity to catch one of the tastiest and most prized salmon species. But fisheries experts are cautioning that this year's strong sockey...

A New York billionaire who is an avid supporter of U.S. President Donald Trump says he is helping fund the legal battle by a British Columbia ostrich farm against an order to cull their flock of about 400 birds after an avian flu outbreak. John Catsimatidis says he and a friend have contributed about US$35,000 to the l...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver International Airport is reporting that some of its flights are being delayed, citing staffing shortfalls with NAV CANADA. A media release from the airport says that due to unexpected staffing constraints at the country's air navigation service provider, passengers may experience changes to their ...

WASHINGTON - Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc's office says he had a lengthy and constructive meeting with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in Washington today. It comes after Prime Minister Mark Carney announced last Friday that Canada will drop some retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products to match Americ...

MONTRÉAL - Quebec Premier François Legault has been called to testify at the public inquiry into the cost overrun scandal at the province's auto insurance board. Representatives of the Gallant Commission say the premier will appear next Tuesday. The commission is examining how the creation of the online p...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says expansions to ports in Montreal and Manitoba could be among the first projects fast tracked under his government's new major projects bill. Carney says the government will make an announcement about new port infrastructure in the next two weeks. The ports comments came as Carney...

OTTAWA - Elections Canada says just over 200 ballots were rejected in the recent Alberta byelection where Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre regained a seat in the House of Commons. Validated results of the Battle River-Crowfoot byelection posted by Elections Canada show that there were a total of 211 rejected ballot...