Category Archives: National News

Provincial health ministers want funding commitment out of meeting with Michel
CALGARY - Federal Health Minister Marjorie Michel is set to meet today in Calgary with her provincial and territorial counterparts, who say they're looking for promises Ottawa will boost health-care f...
Canadian Press Oct 17, 2025

Ottawa hasn't approached Alberta, Sask., about pharmacare since election: ministers
CALGARY - Alberta and Saskatchewan's health ministers say they haven't been approached by Ottawa about signing onto the federal pharmacare program since the spring election. Saskatchewan Health Minist...
Canadian Press Oct 16, 2025

Carney says Stellantis offered reassurances on Brampton, Ont., plant
TORONTO - Prime Minister Mark Carney said the global head of Stellantis told him the automaker is looking at finding a new model to fill the idled Brampton, Ont., plant, but that a decision would requ...
Ian Bickis, The Canadian Press Oct 16, 2025

Carney says government will introduce tougher bail, sentencing rules next week
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says his government will introduce tougher bail and sentencing standards for violent crime in a bill that will be introduced next week. Carney says the legislation ...
Anja Karadeglija, The Canadian Press Oct 16, 2025

Canada's health ministers meeting in Calgary to discuss funding, workforce
CALGARY - Federal, provincial and territorial health ministers are in Calgary for two days of meetings, with interprovincial credential recognition and funding agreements up for discussion. The office...
Canadian Press Oct 16, 2025

Carney talked trade with Gulf countries at Egypt peace summit
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney used a hastily convened meeting with world leaders at U.S. President Donald Trump's peace summit in Egypt on Monday to push for deeper trade ties with several count...
Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press Oct 15, 2025

U.K. man charged in Quebec City over disappearance of 16-year-old girl
MONTREAL - A 42-year-old man has appeared in court in Quebec City in the disappearance of a 16-year-old girl from England. The accused from Birmingham, U.K., has been charged with sexual touching of a...
Canadian Press Oct 15, 2025

Conservatives pitch training reform to address high youth unemployment
OTTAWA - The federal Conservative party is proposing a plan to improve the job prospects facing Canada's young workers. Unemployment rose to 14.7 per cent for youth aged 15 to 24 in September, hitting...
Craig Lord, The Canadian Press Oct 15, 2025

New procurement rules could lead interpreters to avoid federal work, association says
OTTAWA - The association representing professional interpreters is warning that Ottawa's planned new procurement rules could convince many of them to shun work for the federal government. The governme...
Catherine Morrison, The Canadian Press Oct 15, 2025

Progressive Conservatives win majority government in Newfoundland and Labrador
ST. JOHN'S - Voters in Newfoundland and Labrador showed they were in the mood for a big change on Tuesday by ousting the governing Liberals after ten years in power and handing a slim majority win to ...
Sarah Smellie, The Canadian Press Oct 14, 2025
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