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OTTAWA - The federal government posted a budgetary deficit of $23.6 billion for the first nine months of its 2023-24 fiscal year. The result compared with a deficit of $5.5 billion for the same stretc...

Ottawa is changing the formula for allocating carbon tax revenues, directing more of the money away from small businesses and towards consumers. According to the Canadian Federation of Independent Bus...

JERUSALEM (AP) - When the Biden administration imposed sanctions this month against Israeli settler Yinon Levi for allegedly assaulting Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, his supporters ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Almost a year after state lawmakers passed a law giving Florida's governor control over Walt Disney World's governing district, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday called the takeover a...

FREDERICTON - A photo of federal Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay eating lobster in Malaysia during an official trip has some people seeing red. Shared Sunday on the minister's profile on the X ...

OTTAWA - Canadian business investment per worker plummeted by 20 per cent over a 15-year stretch, according to new Statistics Canada research that suggests weaker competition is partly to blame. The r...

OTTAWA - Retail sales in December came in slightly stronger than economists were expecting, driven by strong sales for new cars and parts. Statistics Canada reported retail sales rose 0.9 per cent to ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - Kendra Sawyer spoke with her dad from the Deschutes County jail and told him she loved him. Six hours later, in the throes of opioid withdrawal, the 22-year-old took her own life...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - After years of refusing to expand Medicaid, some of Mississippi's Republican leaders now say they are open to the policy - if they can require new enrollees to have a job. That a...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - An application submitted by a man accused of sexual assault to provide Newfoundland and Labrador's first ride-hailing operation was approved in just one day, according to emails obt...