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Ontario is expanding its suite of publicly funded private community surgical and diagnostic centres, Premier Doug Ford said Friday. The province will invest $155 million over the next two years to cre...

WINNIPEG - About 100 residents, including horn honkers, sign-wavers and dog walkers, descended upon a famed Winnipeg intersection Friday to legally cross the street in more than four decades. Long gon...

The final numbers are in on last year's Alberta budget, and the bottom-line figure is an $8.3-billion surplus. It's $2.5 billion more than officials had expected to get, and Finance Minister Nate Horn...

British Columbia's Police Complaint Commissioner says he's called a public hearing to probe misconduct allegations against three current and three former Nelson police officers over alleged racist, se...

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the public desire in her province to quit Canada has never been higher. Smith says a recent byelection that saw a separatist candidate garner almost 18 pe...

British Columbia's public safety minister said police intelligence had linked many cases of extortion against the South Asian community to India's Lawrence Bishnoi gang, giving the government confiden...

OTTAWA - Parliament has passed controversial major projects legislation that Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada needs to shore up its economy in the face of a trade war with the United States. Bil...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia government ministers say they will meet with a panel tasked with examining environmental racism in the province, although they remain tight-lipped on the panel's findings, which ...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government's controversial major projects bill became law Thursday - legislation Indigenous leaders have warned could lead to widespread protests and legal challenges if Ottawa do...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's minister of public works says it will be "several years" until construction begins to protect a low-lying strip of land that links the province to New Brunswick. Fred Tilley to...