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WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is forecast to see its federal equalization payments jump by $355 million, or 7.5 per cent, in the next fiscal year as it continues to try to balance the provincial ...

VANCOUVER - Canisters of nitrous oxide, also known as laughing gas, sold under the guise of whip cream chargers are increasingly showing up at Metro Vancouver waste facilities, and they're causing dan...

OTTAWA - The federal government says it will purchase six Global 6500 jets to replace the Royal Canadian Air Force's remaining Challenger aircraft, which are used to shuttle around VIPs like the prime...

TORONTO - In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the royal charter that created Canada's oldest company was loaded onto a private plane in Toronto. Protected by a durable case that was not too hot, no...

MONTREAL - The first segment of the federal government's proposed high-speed rail project will connect Montreal and Ottawa, acting as a test case for a multibillion-dollar infrastructure project inten...

ABBOTSFORD - Flooding in the Fraser Valley, caused by overflow from the Nooksack River in Washington state, is expected to peak today, as residents wait to see the severity of the inundation. David Ca...

VICTORIA - A coalition of municipalities in British Columbia is calling on the province to repeal housing legislation designed to increase supply through higher density, but the housing minister says ...

Canada's housing agency says the pace of rent growth ticked lower this year as vacancies continued rising, while increased rental supply also contributed to softer market conditions. Canada Mortgage a...

Trans Mountain has paid a regulatory fine for environmental lapses along its British Columbia pipeline route in the aftermath of a January 2024 storm. The $196,000 fine is the largest cumulative penal...

ABBOTSFORD - Standing near a rail line next to the U.S. border, Abbotsford, B.C., resident Robbie Friesen said the ground under his feet was dry about 30 minutes earlier. "Now at our deepest point we'...