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OTTAWA - The Finance Department says the federal deficit was $13 billion between April and September. That compares to an $8.2 billion deficit over the same period last year. Read More: Provincial def...

MONTREAL - As Australia moves to ban social media for children under 16, Quebec is debating whether to follow suit. The provincial government decided last spring to study the possibility of setting a ...

OTTAWA - The Canadian economy shrank on a per-person basis for a sixth consecutive quarter, extending an all-too-familiar trend of high interest rates stifling business investment and constraining gro...

TORONTO - The federal government says cost-conscious families are among the groups set to benefit from a proposed tax holiday, a temporary policy that will make many children's items and packaged food...

REGINA - The Saskatchewan Party government is projecting a deficit that's more than double what it predicted in its budget, largely due to higher crop insurance payouts following a difficult farming s...

OTTAWA - Canadian negotiators at the United Nations plastic pollution treaty talks in South Korea said Thursday they are working "around the clock" to finalize an agreement, though the process has bee...

MONTREAL - A shopping mall and office complex in downtown Montreal is being criticized for using the popular children's song "Baby Shark" to discourage unhoused people from loitering in its emergency ...

MERIGOMISH, N.S. - Federal food safety officials say they have confirmed the first case of dermo disease in oysters from Nova Scotia - the second confirmed case in Canada. The Canadian Food Inspection...

Opposing sides in British Columbia's fractious battle over coastal open net-pen salmon farming are in Ottawa casting for support to either phase out the industry or throw it a life line. Representativ...

TORONTO - A region in northern Ontario was chosen Thursday as the site to hold Canada's nuclear waste in a deep geological repository, a critical milestone in a $26-billion, decades-long project to bu...