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OTTAWA - Nearly a year after Health Canada issued a draft recommendation to designate an entire class of chemicals as toxic, environmental experts say it's time to actually do something about it. Ther...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Speaker Mike Johnson is at risk of being ousted after hard-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene filed a motion to vacate Friday, his leadership abruptly challenged in the middle of a Ho...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government issued a new, higher deficit projection Friday and announced financial audits of health authorities to crack down on what it called overspending. The deficit for the...

REGINA - The union representing Saskatchewan teachers says it's planning a provincewide withdrawal of extracurricular activities next week as a labour dispute with the government continues. The Saskat...

BRUSSELS (AP) - French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday he "regrets" the Senate's vote to reject legislation to ratify a trade deal between the European Union and Canada that has been criticized ...

MONTREAL - Brian Mulroney's three sons say there's no doubt their father would have been thrilled by this week's public tributes honouring his life. "He would have loved it. He is smiling down right n...

OTTAWA - The federal government recorded a budgetary deficit of $25.7 billion as of the end of January for the current fiscal year. The Finance Department says in its monthly fiscal monitor that the d...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Prosecutors in three Wisconsin counties declined to pursue felony charges of campaign finance violations against former President Donald Trump 's fundraising committee and a Repub...

TORONTO - Ontario is extending a program that helps rural and northern hospitals avoid temporary ER closures for another six months. The province established what's now known as the Temporary Locum Pr...

OTTAWA - A framework for a national school food program has landed on the desk of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, and with the federal budget just weeks away advocates hope the proposal will get t...