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VANCOUVER - British Columbia voters are heading to the polls in a snap election set for Oct. 24, a week after municipal elections take place across the province. The election comes less than two years...

Business groups are applauding new federal legislation that aims to speed up major projects, saying it includes measures they have long been urging Ottawa to take to boost Canada's competitive stature...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is pledging $100 million in new aid for Palestinians and offering to expand an RCMP training mission of local police in the West Bank to include Gaza, w...

NEW YORK - U.S. President Donald Trump says his country will continue buying Canadian potash after all. Trump made the comments to reporters Tuesday during a bilateral meeting at the United Nations Ge...

OTTAWA - As European countries warn of the emerging threat of Russian hybrid attacks on NATO members helping Ukraine, the Liberal government is watching what it says about potential new security risks...

SYDNEY - Proponents behind a 13-year-old bid to build a shipping container port in Cape Breton say they're now focused on developing a terminal to support the offshore wind sector. Novaporte, led by C...

British Columbians are going to the polls about two years ahead of schedule, after NDP Leader David Eby called an early election to be held on Oct. 24. Here's a look at the party leaders in a politica...

VICTORIA - British Columbia's political scene is undergoing breakneck restructuring ahead of an Oct. 24 snap election that NDP Leader David Eby called on Tuesday, framing it as necessary to respond to...

OTTAWA - The Canadian government has offered Indigenous groups a collective 15 per cent ownership stake in the Trans Mountain pipeline, advancing a long-promised plan to give First Nations equity in t...

EDMONTON - Elections Alberta says the number of mail-in ballots requested for next month's referendum has surpassed 610,000. The new total is an increase of about 90,000 since Friday and continues the...