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FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's finance minister revealed Tuesday that the province is on track to post a record deficit of $1.3 billion, saying it will likely be several years before the budget lands b...

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.3 per cent in January, 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 2.3 per cent in January, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrador: 2.4 per ce...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is facing mounting calls to speak out against the United States for widening its restrictions on fuel reaching Cuba, or to send aid to the country. For more than a ...

MONTREAL - Montrealer Marianick Baril says she's had eight flat tires since Christmas. Now, she plans her daily commute less on travel time and more by choosing the streets that have the fewest crater...

OTTAWA - The outlook for Canada's provinces is difficult to chart but some surprising resilience to U.S. trade pressures and historical revisions to economic data have most provinces on better footing...

EDMONTON - DAVID, a chatbot powered by artificial intelligence, answers a call before the first phone ring even finishes. "Hi," it says. "Did you reach out looking to speak with someone about an injur...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada reported an easing in the headline inflation rate Tuesday but a jump in the pace of food inflation amid tax changes and lingering pressures at the grocery store continue to ...

OTTAWA - Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon is visiting Saudi Arabia and India after a trip to Germany as part of an effort to drum up new investment in Canadian tech. The stops are "about ...

QUBEC - Quebec's automobile insurance board lied to the provincial government to conceal exploding costs in the creation of the agency's online platform, says a public inquiry into the cost-overrun sc...