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TORONTO - Strength in the basic materials sector helped Canada's main stock index finish more than 130 points higher on Friday, while U.S. markets were down and investors pored over employment data fr...

VICTORIA - Ending the temporary foreign worker program won't solve "deep structural problems" with housing and other issues in British Columbia, while it would create "problematic consequences" for la...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is planning to create standards for releasing treated oilsands tailings into the environment. Creating those standards is one of four new policy recommendations pitch...

MONTREAL - Amazon and Walmart say they will remove products from their stores that appear to promote the Hells Angels outlaw biker gang. The announcement comes after the Journal de Montral first repor...

VANCOUVER - Environment Canada's special air-quality statements for wildfire smoke have now expanded to cover most of British Columbia, with air quality at its worst possible level in parts of the Fra...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney announced Friday a suite of new measures to support sectors of the economy hit hardest by U.S. tariffs. The announcement includes $5 billion for a fund to help comp...

TORONTO - A major transit project in Toronto has been delayed yet again, though officials are hopeful to get it operational by the end of the year. There are "performance and reliability" issues with ...

Ottawa has announced $370 million in new support for Canadian canola producers facing massive tariffs from China. The federal government said Friday that a new biofuel production incentive is meant to...

OTTAWA - The federal electric vehicle sales mandate will not be implemented in 2026 as planned, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday, pushing back by at least a year a policy that would have set min...

MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has declared insolvent the North American branch of battery maker Northvolt as the provincial government looks to recover $260 million owed to it by the compan...