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VICTORIA - British Columbia's finance minister says now is not the time to balance the province's budget. Katrine Conroy says the New Democratic government does plan for a balanced budget "in the futu...

Shipments at Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd. ground to a halt Thursday after months of increasingly bitter negotiations, threatening to upend supply chains still re...

WINNIPEG - Manitobans will have access to free prescription birth control starting Oct. 1. The NDP government says that's the date it will fulfil a promise it made in last year's election campaign. Th...

OTTAWA - Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon said Thursday the federal government has asked the Canada Industrial Relations Board to end the lockout at the country's two biggest rail companies, ordering ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld the state's rejection of signature petitions for an abortion rights ballot initiative on Thursday, keeping the proposal from going before vot...

CHICAGO - Kamala Harris promised to be a president for all Americans as she closed out the Democratic National Convention where a former United States ambassador to Canada sounded the alarm that a sec...

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests more Canadians are feeling the direct impacts of extreme weather, but that has not changed overall opinions about climate change. The results from a recent Leger poll sugg...

OTTAWA - The Crown wants at least six current and former security officials to testify behind closed doors in the lawsuit of a Montreal man who was detained in Sudan - a move the man's lawyer calls a ...

EDMONTON - Alberta's United Conservative government is trying to increase production from the province's declining conventional oil and gas fields at the expense of local tax bases, environmental over...

CHICAGO (AP) - Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz accepted his party's nomination for vice president Wednesday night, using his Democratic National Convention address to thank the packed arena for "bringing the ...