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OTTAWA - Canadian border authorities say they have deported 111 people since August last year in efforts to combat extortion violence in South Asian communities. The Canada Border Services Agency says...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is offering to waive the provincial sales tax on major capital spending for the Port of Churchill as it tries to attract international investment. Premier Wab Kinew ...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the response rate for this year's census of the population was 98.4 per cent, one of the highest ever recorded. The data is collected every five years and the questionn...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney's high-stakes pitch for foreign investment is also attracting protests by Indigenous leaders, environmental groups and union leaders opposed to his agenda. Hundreds...

VICTORIA - The new party formed by British Columbia legislators who have defected from the provincial Conservatives in recent weeks gained a seventh member on Monday, with interim leader Peter Milobar...

MONTREAL - With the Quebec election campaign almost at its halfway point, party leaders made themselves scarce on Monday as they prepared for their first two debates this week. The first debate is sch...

Ontario's Natural Resources Minister Mike Harris pledged Monday better communication on wildfires after many First Nations communities said they received little to no warning about approaching flames ...

TORONTO - Ontario's English Catholic teachers have scheduled a strike vote in November, as contract talks have yet to move past initial stages. The Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association says ...

ST. JOHN'S - There was turmoil in and outside the Newfoundland and Labrador legislature Monday as a four-day debate about a tentative deal to share Labrador energy with Hydro-Qubec got underway. Gover...

OTTAWA - A permanent residency sponsorship exemption for some refugees was allowed to expire earlier this month due to unspecified "potential integrity concerns," an Immigration Department spokesperso...