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EDMONTON - Hobbled by more than just low oil prices, Alberta's NDP finance minister limped into the legislature in a cast to deliver a devastating budget. It was 2017, and Joe Ceci had injured his leg...

OTTAWA - From a massive ad blitz featuring Canadian broadcast icon Peter Mansbridge to a cabinet minister calling on shipbuilders to cough up a car plant, the brief race to replace Canada's aging subm...

CALGARY - Ten years ago this week, the United Kingdom voted to quit the European Union, setting off years of political turmoil and economic pain that persist to this day. Richard Barfield was working ...

Two carved cedar totems now flank either side of the Canadian end of the Chilkoot Trail, a permanent reminder that the route best known as the path to the Yukon gold fields during the 1890s gold rush ...

CALGARY - Four months to the day from an upcoming referendum on whether Alberta should stay in Canada, about 35 people rallied Friday at a Calgary hotel ballroom to formally launch a campaign to convi...

WINE HARBOUR - A proposal to build North America's first coastal refuge for captive whales took a symbolic step forward on Friday as its proponents staged a groundbreaking ceremony in a rugged corner ...

OTTAWA - The federal government is levying a temporary 10 per cent tariff on some imported canned vegetables to help domestic vegetable growers. The Department of Finance says the move addresses criti...

Canada's federal banking regulator says it's lowering its domestic stability buffer to three per cent from 3.5 per cent, a move it says will give the country's six largest banks greater flexibility to...

MONTREAL - A luxury tax on cars, planes and boats yielded more than $900 million before it was scaled back amid concerns about the negative effect on manufacturers. In the two fiscal years between 202...

VANCOUVER - The federal and British Columbia governments have announced billions of dollars in combined investments to spur housing development and update infrastructure, including building a new high...