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The Senate voted Monday to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer as U.S. labor secretary, a Cabinet position that puts her in charge of enforcing federally mandated worker rights and protections at a time when ...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says the province's Crown-owned energy corporation could use its purchasing power to fight back against tariffs imposed by the United States. Kinew says Manitoba ...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is facing calls to cancel a speaking appearance with conservative media personality Ben Shapiro at an upcoming fundraiser for Florida-based PragerU. A conserv...

American beer, wine and all other alcohol is being removed from government stores in British Columbia in retaliation for U.S. tariffs, expanding a ban on liquor from so-called red states that voted fo...

SAGUENAY, Que. - It's difficult to drive along the snow-covered roads of Quebec's Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean region without coming across trucks transporting freshly cut logs. Wood, as well as aluminum, are...

WASHINGTON - Canada remains in the crosshairs of U.S. President Donald Trump's enormous tariff agenda, with steel and aluminum duties set to come into force on Wednesday. U.S. Commerce Secretary Howar...

TORONTO - Ontario has placed a surcharge of 25 per cent on electricity exported to the United States as of Monday, and the government says it could raise that amount even higher in response to further...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada's interest rate announcement arrives on Wednesday in a cloud of uncertainty thanks to a shifting trade war with the United States. Most economists expect the central bank w...

TORONTO - There had been warning signs for months. There were the reports of dangerous flu-like symptoms in Asia. News of the lockdown that kept tens of millions of people inside their homes in China....

OTTAWA - Even when Mark Carney was still in high school, his friends bugged him about whether he would become prime minister one day. His answer was one fit for a future politician: to never confirm n...