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TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford is defending his government's skills-development funding system that allows a minister to hand-pick recipients against the advice of bureaucrats, even after referri...

EDMONTON - Alberta's minister of arts, culture and Status of Women has apologized for using an expletive in a voice message she left for a constituent. Tanya Fir, the United Conservative Party legisla...

MONTRAL - Two Montreal public transit unions have reached tentative agreements with their employer, while two others are still without a deal. The union representing 1,300 administrative and technical...

Researchers have captured video footage of wild wolves in British Columbia pulling crab traps out of the sea by their lines to eat the bait inside, in the first evidence of possible tool use by the an...

REGINA - Saskatchewan's government has signed its first contracts with nurse practitioners to expand primary care. Health Minister Jeremy Cockrill says the 19 new contracts will help patients get medi...

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in October, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated widely beca...

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in October, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrador: 2.0 per ce...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... MPs to vote on Prime Minister Mark Carney's first budget today Members of Parliament will today decide whether...

VANCOUVER - A human rights complaint has been settled between the TD Bank and a Muslim-Indigenous man who claimed he was racially profiled while trying to open a bank account at a Surrey, B.C., branch...

TORONTO - Shannon Pethick thought cervical cancer would be in Canada's rear-view by now. "It hurts my heart because we should be past this," she said from her home in Saskatoon, reflecting on her diag...