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OTTAWA - The federal government is suspending the planned export ban on single-use plastics due to tariffs and supply chain issues "creating significant pressure on the domestic economy." The governme...

OTTAWA - The federal government ran a budgetary deficit of $18.4 billion for its April-to-October period. The result compared with a deficit of $14.5 billion for the same period a year earlier, accord...

TORONTO - Anglican Deacon Michael Van Dusen typically has plans for the Christmas season that do not involve a Toronto courthouse. Perhaps he would be preparing his Christmas Day sermon or visiting wi...

On the darkest nights of winter when the cloud cover is just right, there's a purple haze above parts of Metro Vancouver and it has nothing to do with Christmas or Jimi Hendrix. Cathy Latremouille sai...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government says cutting red tape has allowed provincial pulp mills to more than double their use of timber salvaged from forest fires. The Ministry of Forests says in a...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada's governing council says it's difficult to predict which direction interest rates may go as trade uncertainty clouds its outlook. The central bank released a summary Tuesda...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew says he's not going to fulfil a 2023 election campaign promise to regulate gas prices. The promise, outlined in the New Democrats' campaign platform, was to give ...

HALIFAX - A former university president who oversaw the report that led to a decade-long ban on fracking in Nova Scotia is questioning the government's claims that new natural-gas development will low...

TORONTO - A Pillsbury brand Pizza Pop may not seem like an obvious candidate for E. coli - given the freezing and heating that goes on before it reaches the consumer's lips - but foodborne illness exp...

OTTAWA - U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs - and the spike in Canadian nationalism they inspired - are being described as the "dominant story" of 2025. The tariffs story was selected as The Canadi...