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BURNABY - Public service workers in British Columbia are again escalating job action, picketing a citizens' services office that issues services cards, processes freedom of information requests and fa...

MONTREAL - A member of Quebec's legislature says she will take down her professional Facebook page, unable to filter the hateful comments and spam it regularly attracts. Christine Labrie of leftist pa...

SAULT STE. MARIE - Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., and the Hamilton Oshawa Port Authority have signed a partnership to develop a trade corridor connecting northern and southern Ontario. The corridor is expect...

TORONTO - Hundreds of public servants rallied outside Queen's Park on Thursday to protest the province's return-to-office mandate, in the latest outcry from Canadian workers opposed to the waning of p...

HALIFAX - Donald Oliver, the first Black man appointed to the Senate of Canada, has died at the age of 86. Oliver's family in Nova Scotia confirmed the retired senator died Wednesday from a chronic he...

OTTAWA - A think tank is urging the federal government to abandon plans for a single-payer pharmacare program in the face of tariff-related fiscal uncertainty. Rosalie Wyonch, associate director of re...

MEXICO CITY - Canada and Mexico have signed a pact to deepen economic and security ties ahead of what is expected to be a challenging round of negotiations with the United States on a trilateral trade...

EDMONTON - A nasty standoff between the Alberta government and its 51,000 teachers - with each side accusing the other of lying - is set to turn into an all-out advertising war. Finance Minister Nate ...

MONTREAL - Outgoing Montreal Mayor Valrie Plante says Thursday's inauguration of a sixth UN office in the city is a reflection of the environmental, housing-focused agenda she's championed in her near...

Canada-wide protests are planned this weekend, a coalition of progressive civil society groups say, in what organizers call an emerging "common front" to elements of the new Liberal government's agend...