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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will sit down with provincial and territorial leaders on March 13 to wrestle with some of the thorny issues that are dividing the nation. The first ministers' me...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says he will make a renewed push for compensation for families of people who died in the Ukraine International Airlines crash on a th...

TORONTO - Ontario now has a sixth confirmed case of the novel coronavirus, and while it is the first instance in the province of human-to-human transmission, health officials say the risk is still low...

OTTAWA - The controversial use of facial-recognition tools will soon be scrutinized by MPs. Members of the House of Commons committee on access to information, privacy and eth...

OTTAWA - Canada's old-fashioned city sewer systems dumped nearly 900 billion litres of raw sewage into this country's waterways over five years, enough to fill up an Olympic-sized swimm...

EDMONTON - Alberta's United Conservative government tabled its 2020-21 budget Thursday. Here is a look at who might be pleased and who won't be so happy: WINNERS Techies: The province is investing $20...

VANCOUVER - Government lawyers have made irrelevant arguments in British Columbia Supreme Court by saying the province would lose millions of dollars a year in federal funding if a lawsuit seeking an ...

OTTAWA - Canada's top public-health official Dr. Theresa Tam says Canada has begun to look at tracking local spread of the novel coronavirus, just as the United States confirmed a case ...

MONTREAL - Quebec public health officials are reporting the province's first presumptive case of the new coronavirus. Health Minister Danielle McCann announced Thursday night that the patient, a woman...

Fort St. John RCMP say a man had to be taken out of province for treatment after he was shot during a home invasion Thursday morning.It happened at around 4:20 a.m. BC time at a home on 101 Avenue in ...