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Communities on either side of the Canada-U.S. border braced for further economic fallout on Monday after trade talks collapsed and both countries moved deeper into a tariff fight. Mayor Mike Bradley o...

MONTRAL - A new Lger poll has found that three-quarters of Quebecers support recognizing a so-called right to coolness that would guarantee safe places during heat waves. Overall, 74 per cent of surve...

OTTAWA - The French language and Quebec and Canadian culture might be trade irritants for the Americans but in Canada they are fundamental rights, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Monday. Trade talks w...

MONTRAL - The Conservative Party of Quebec is promising to balance the province's budget within four years if it is elected to form government in October. Leader ric Duhaime says that he'd balance the...

HALIFAX - Advocates against gender-based violence in Nova Scotia are calling on the Progressive Conservative government to reconsider Marco MacLeod's role as energy minister due to misogynistic rap ly...

OTTAWA - Economists are warning that a re-escalation in the trade war with the United States puts Canada's burgeoning economic recovery at risk. The U.S. imposed 50 per cent tariffs on roughly $28 bil...

The United States needs to feel the pain in response to President Donald Trump's latest trade war escalation, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Monday as he and the president traded insults. Ford had ear...

OTTAWA - The federal government is set to unveil details of Canada's retaliatory tariffs against the United States on Tuesday. Finance Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne, Industry Minister Mlanie Jol...

MONTREAL - Montreal's municipal council adopted a motion of solidarity with the Palestinian people in a meeting on Monday night. The motion, which contained multiple amendments from the one originally...

MONTRAL - Four years ago, Franois Legault's Coalition Avenir Qubec party was so far in the lead at the start of the provincial election campaign that the only debate was who would finish second. The o...