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OTTAWA - The Canadian job market posted another weak hiring month in October as employers added a modest 15,000 jobs, but economists say the results aren't bad enough to spark concerns at the Bank of ...

EDMONTON - Alberta's finance minister has sacked the chief executive officer and entire board of directors of Alberta Investment Management Corp., the Crown corporation that manages pension and other ...

OTTAWA - Donald Trump's mandate to get tough on trade is expected to be stronger in his second term as U.S. president, posing different challenges for Canada than his first four years in the White Hou...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are once again promising to launch an Africa strategy - something the government appeared to back away from last year - while announcing new embassies and security projec...

TORONTO - By ordering TikTok to shut down its Canadian operations but not banning the app, digital media experts say the federal government is sending mixed messages that make it too hard for the aver...

VANCOUVER - Talks are set to resume between the union representing more than 700 locked-out British Columbia port supervisors and their employers. A representative for the International Longshore and ...

EDMONTON, ALBERTA, CANADA - Alberta Forestry Minister Todd Loewen says the decision to lift limits on trapping and harvesting for animals like wolverines is being done to get more data on how many the...

OTTAWA - Applications opened Thursday for a $1-billion federal program to help municipalities and Indigenous communities build critical infrastructure. The government set aside $1 billion through the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate Thursday by a quarter-point in response to the steady decline in the once-high inflation that had angered Americans and helped drive Don...

OTTAWA - Bloc Qubcois Leader Yves-Franois Blanchet accused senators of betraying their fellow Canadians to benefit Americans and other trade partners, after a Senate committee voted to add a major cav...