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OTTAWA - The final budget of the Trudeau government's mandate will scatter billions in fresh spending - on everything from pharmacare to retraining workers to first-time home buyers - as the Liberals ...

QUEBEC - Finance Minister Eric Girard tabled the Coalition Avenir Quebec government's first budget on Thursday. Here are some highlights: - Balanced books for the fifth straight year in Quebec, with a...

OTTAWA - Canadians could soon be putting $250 a year in federal tax credits toward better skills, while getting federal help to pay the bills. One of the showpieces in Tuesday's federal Liberal budget...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is promising billions of dollars to compensate dairy, egg and poultry farmers hurt by Canada's recent free-trade agreements - industries concentrated in vote-rich Quebe...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government is promising a new agency to negotiate prescription drug prices for Canadians and try to drive down costs - a move billed as an "important step" ...

WINNIPEG - A newborn who was seen in a social media video being taken away from her mother by authorities in a Winnipeg hospital is to be returned to her family. A court has given custody to...

VICTORIA - Researchers say a tsunami alert in British Columbia that rang out in the dead of night 14 months ago serves as a preparation blueprint for coastal communities that face the&n...

Mike Trout is on the verge of becoming baseball's first half-billion dollar man. Trout and the Los Angeles Angels are close to finalizing a $432 million, 12-year contract that would shatter the record...

OTTAWA - An independent Canadian senator has proposed a bill that would allow the government to take the frozen assets of dictators and their cronies to help refugees forced to flee their tyranny. Sen...

MONTREAL - An elusive Tunisian billionaire who disappeared from Canada as he was set to be deported to his homeland in 2016 resurfaced last week and is under arrest in France. Belh...