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WASHINGTON - Canada is still counting on the United States to share its COVID-19 vaccine surplus, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday - even as pressure mounts on the White House to help ease a...

EDMONTON - Five First Nations whose land stretches along most of Alberta's Rocky Mountains and three coal companies hoping to develop mines in the area have written the province to demand better Indig...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole says he's simply in "listening mode" on the idea of making voting mandatory in Canada after recently raising it before a virtual crowd. The remarks came when ...

OTTAWA - The Federal Court of Appeal has ruled that Alberta has the right to control the amount and destination of oil and other fuels flowing through its pipelines. The decision, released Tuesday, is...

OTTAWA - Canada's environment minister has put forward changes in response to NDP concerns about a bill that would make the federal government more accountable as it strives to reach net-zero carbon e...

OTTAWA - Dozens of health professionals from the military, federal government, Canadian Red Cross and even Newfoundland and Labrador's front-line hospitals are being redeployed to COVID-19 hot zones d...

OTTAWA - Federal Labour Minister Filomena Tassi described a strike at the Port of Montreal as a "matter of life and death" as the Liberal government tabled Tuesday controversial back-to-work legislati...

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says a hypothetical tax on big corporations' excess profits would generate $7.9 billion for the federal government. The estimate Tuesday by budget officer Yve...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 7:50 p.m. British Columbia has extended its provincial state of emergency until May 11 to allow health officials to use the lega...

OTTAWA - Wrangling in the Senate over who will co-chair a special joint committee is holding up the start of a long-awaited, legally required, parliamentary review of Canada's assisted dying regime. T...