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VANCOUVER - When NDP Leader David Eby announced this month that the province would open "secure facilities" to provide involuntary care for people with severe drug addiction or mental health problems,...

VANCOUVER - Negotiations to end a strike by grain terminal workers in Metro Vancouver have stalled, with the employers' association saying it's "disappointed" with the results of two days of talks. A ...

OTTAWA - Global Affairs Canada began booking blocks of seats on the few remaining commercial flights leaving Lebanon on Friday as it issued another urgent plea for any Canadians in the country to leav...

Voters in New Brunswick are scheduled to go to the polls on Oct. 21. Here's a look at some of the promises announced by the three major parties: Progressive Conservatives: - Cut the harmonized sales t...

BANFF, Alta. - A public hearing slated for next week is the next milestone for what could be Canada's first grid-scale small modular nuclear reactor (SMR). On Oct. 2, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commi...

Both of the main candidates in British Columbia's election campaign pushed their own plans to solve parts of the housing crisis. B.C. Conservative Leader John Rustad told a news conference in Surrey t...

OTTAWA - Two Liberal ministers are inviting NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh to a briefing about carbon pricing so he can "better understand" how it helps fight climate change while putting more money back in...

OTTAWA - The federal government's deficit has grown to $7.3 billion so far this fiscal year. The Finance Department's latest fiscal monitor says the deficit between April and July compares with a $1.2...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says real gross domestic product grew 0.2 per cent in July, following essentially no change in June, helped by strength in the retail trade sector. The agency says the growt...

VANCOUVER - A chemical firm based in Port Coquitlam, B.C., claims Health Canada wrongfully cancelled its licences to make natural health products after being sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury Department...