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VICTORIA - Residents of British Columbia's first new municipality in 16 years will soon be voting for a mayor and council. The B.C. government says Okanagan Falls residents will vote for a mayor and f...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government has announced a three-year strategy aimed at growing the province's $2.2-billion seafood industry as it tries to cope with with rising costs, labour shortages and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Senate Republicans who were berated by President Donald Trump on Wednesday over opposition to his war in Iran held a late-night vote to try to appease him, voting down a war powers r...

FREDERICTON - Tammy Nash says a smoke detector likely saved her son's life when their family home caught fire in 2010 on the Sitansisk First Nation in central New Brunswick. Nash, director of the loca...

OTTAWA - Officials at the Bank of Canada were seemingly unfazed by economic weakness to start the year as they debated where to take the policy interest rate earlier this month. The central bank today...

A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred President Donald Trump's administration from implementing most of his first executive order on elections, part of which sought to require people to show...

WHITEHORSE - The Yukon government is pleading with the CRTC and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada to flex their regulatory muscles to improve cellular service in the territory that i...

EDMONTON - The Department of National Defence says two senior leaders of a respected Armed Forces battalion have been removed pending an investigation. It says Lt.-Col. Jason Hudson and Chief Warrant ...

CALGARY - A poll commissioned by the Calgary Chamber of Commerce suggests almost half of its members are prepared to move their businesses out of Alberta if the province votes to separate from Canada....

TORONTO - Ontario is raising speed limits on more sections of highways across the province. Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria says the speeds will increase to 110 km/h from 100 km/h on Friday....