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MONTREAL - After more than two years of labour strife, postal workers have given the thumbs-up to a new contract, casting their ballots overwhelmingly to approve a tentative agreement that will boost ...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is stepping up his attack on Liberal policies with a call for an emergency parliamentary debate on the economy. Statistics Canada said Friday the economy ...

The federal government has ordered a financial audit into transactions and activities at a landmark Indigenous languages office after receiving anonymous complaints. Canadian Heritage didn't elaborate...

OTTAWA - A lawyer who represented First Nations in a class-action lawsuit against Ottawa says his clients still have not been consulted on promised clean drinking water legislation - even though the l...

OTTAWA - The federal government is facing increased pressure to state whether it knows how some of its recent policy changes will affect Canada's greenhouse gas emissions. Environment Minister Julie D...

HALIFAX - Canada Post workers were set to wrap up voting on new tentative agreements Saturday after more than two years of labour strife. Some 55,000 Canadian Union of Postal Workers members began vot...

EDMONTON - Corb Lund is exhausted and would rather just play music. It's been almost four months of collecting signatures in his fight to force a referendum to stop coal development in the Rockies. Th...

MONTREAL - The lawyer for a homeless man who once attended al-Qaida training camps says his client has pleaded guilty in Montreal to threatening to bomb public transit. Leonard Waxman says Mohamed Abd...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Opposition leader is calling on the Liberal government to put off the province's planned shift to a new virtual-health-care provider. Glen Savoie, leader of the Progressi...

MONTRAL - A group representing Quebec municipalities is calling on the next provincial government to boost funding for public transit agencies, which say they will need $20 billion by 2035 just to mai...