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OTTAWA - The Liberal government says it is moving ahead with long-simmering plans to make it easier and less expensive to obtain a criminal pardon. Proposals outlined in the federal budget Monday coul...

VANCOUVER - Canada must remedy problems in commercial fishery regulations arising from a legal battle that was first launched in 2003 by a group of Vancouver Island First Nations, the British Columbia...

WASHINGTON - Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who was injured while confronting rioters during the Jan. 6 insurrection, suffered a stroke and died from natural causes, the Washington, D.C., medi...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the 2021 federal budget in the House of Commons on Monday. Here are some highlights from her speech, as well as quotes from opposition leaders. Crisi...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government's first budget in more than two years makes big promises on child care, the environment and readying the country's economy for a post-pandemic rebound. But ther...

OTTAWA - Highlights from the federal Liberal budget tabled Monday by Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland: - $30 billion over the next five years, and $8.3 billion ongoing for early learning and child c...

OTTAWA - The federal government is looking to give workers and students a leg up with a budget that commits billions to training, benefits and debt relief, as those hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemi...

OTTAWA - The federal government topped up its housing and infrastructure plans in Monday's budget, but held back on an overhaul as homes and cities grow increasingly unaffordable. In the first budget ...

OTTAWA - The federal budget is promising billions to close gaps in long-term care and Canada's vaccine production laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic. There is $2.2 billion over the next seven years - ...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government plans to spend more than $18 billion over the next five years to try to narrow the socio-economic gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and to help t...