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MONTREAL -- A public inquiry examining a digital shift by Quebec's automobile insurance board is hearing it could end up costing the province nearly half-a-billion dollars, more than initially planned.
Ontario is set to introduce legislation this week that would speed up judicial appointments, add more judges to the Ontario Court of Justice and create new prosecution teams.
OTTAWA -- After a short, intense and heated election campaign of just 35 days, Canadians go to the polls today to elect a new federal government.
VANCOUVER -- Charges have been laid against a man after the attack on a Vancouver Filipino festival on Saturday night that killed 11 people.
VANCOUVER -- A man in a vehicle raced along a street lined with food trucks at a Filipino community festival in Vancouver, killing 11 in an attack the interim police chief called the "darkest day" in the city's history.
VANCOUVER -- Police say the 11 victims killed in a Vancouver vehicle attack during a Filipino cultural festival range in age from five to 65.
VANCOUVER -- Police say the 11 victims killed in a Vancouver vehicle attack during a festival range in age from five to 65.
VANCOUVER -- A man in a vehicle raced along a street lined with food trucks at a Filipino community festival in Vancouver killing 11 people and injuring two dozen others in an attack the interim police chief called the "darkest day" in the city's history.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney briefly paused his election campaign on Sunday to express condolences to victims and their families hours after a vehicle attack in Vancouver killed nine people and injured many more.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney is pausing his election campaign to express condolences to victims and their families after a vehicle attack in Vancouver on Saturday killed nine people and injured many more.
OTTAWA -- A mass casualty vehicle ramming at a Vancouver street festival has cast a grim shadow over the final day of the federal election campaign.
OTTAWA -- Federal party leaders have busy itineraries today in one of the final days of the election campaign.
Canadians are among the tens of thousands who flocked to St. Peter's Square this morning to attend the funeral of Pope Francis.
Canadians are among the thousands converging on St. Peter's Square this morning to attend the funeral of Pope Francis.
VANCOUVER -- The pace of rent increases in Metro Vancouver slowed last year compared with 2023 and the rental stock is growing, but the regional district says homelessness continues to rise and the wait-list for social housing grows.
MONTREAL -- The Quebec government has stepped in to defend the phrase "Go Habs Go!"
OTTAWA -- The federal government posted a budgetary deficit of $19.3 billion for the April-to-February period of its 2024-25 fiscal year.
HALIFAX -- New two-year funding agreements with Nova Scotia's universities will freeze undergraduate tuition and increase operating grants for schools.
OTTAWA -- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is campaigning in what polls suggest are Conservative-safe ridings today as election day approaches.
SURREY -- British Columbia has opened the first of the government's promised secure units to provide involuntary treatment for people with brain injuries and overlapping mental-health and addiction concerns.
EDMONTON -- An Alberta man is facing charges after bits and pieces of a statue depicting a Canadian women's rights pioneer were recovered almost two months after being stolen.
NEW YORK -- Members of the Tsilhqot'in Nation in British Columbia are at the United Nations headquarters in New York City calling for the provincial and Canadian governments to fund recovery beds and other supports in the battle against the toxic drug crisis.
OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to examine the constitutionality of a mandatory minimum sentence for purchasing sexual services from someone under age 18.
TORONTO -- Carney, meet Critch.
ST. JOHN'S -- The premiers of New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador signed a commitment today to consider how both provinces can knock down labour and trade barriers.
CALGARY -- A commercial kitchen company in Calgary has pleaded guilty to four charges after a massive E. coli outbreak at daycares led to hundreds of children falling ill.
ST. JOHN'S -- A Newfoundland mayor says his community is shocked and devastated after a life-size statue of pioneering American aviator Amelia Earhart disappeared from a municipal park overnight.
OTTAWA -- Federal leaders are making campaign stops across the country today as election day inches closer.
VICTORIA -- The British Columbia government is investing up to $11 million toward four projects in the province aimed at boosting the local mass-timber manufacturing sector.
OTTAWA -- The clock is ticking before Canadians head to the polls to cast their ballot in the April 28 election, and attacks from federal party leaders are heating up.
EDMONTON -- Health officials in Alberta are reporting 29 new cases of measles, bringing the province's total to 118 since early March.
HALIFAX -- The group behind a project to build North America's first coastal refuge for captive whales in Nova Scotia has renewed its bid to provide a seaside sanctuary to two killer whales living in a shuttered marine park in France.
HALIFAX -- Nova Scotia's opposition parties say they are skeptical of the provincial government's shrinking list of residents waiting for a family doctor.
OTTAWA -- As the federal election campaign nears its end with less than a week to go before voting day, all federal party leaders are making their last pitches to Canadians on why they deserve their vote.
COLWOOD -- The mayor of a Vancouver Island community hiring doctors as city employees says it is "very close" to signing two more physicians for its clinic even as other communities inquire about replicating its model.
OTTAWA -- Canadians hoping to vote early in the upcoming federal election have until the end of the day to visit an advance polling station as the campaign enters its final week.
NESKANTAGA FIRST NATION, ONT. -- A First Nation in northern Ontario that has been under a boil-water advisory for over 30 years is calling on all levels of government to respond to a state of emergency in the area, days after announcing it would evacuate community members hundreds of kilometres south to Thunder Bay.
OTTAWA -- Canadians continue to head to the polls in advance voting today as federal leaders find themselves out West and in the capital.
OTTAWA -- Elections Canada says preliminary figures suggest almost two million people voted in advance polls on Friday, setting a new record.
MONTREAL -- Quebec doesn't plan to create any special measures to attract U.S.-based doctors and scientists seeking to flee that country over mass layoffs and cuts to health programs.
MONTREAL -- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is promising to end the federal single-use plastic ban on items like straws and grocery bags if his party is elected.
EDMONTON -- The Alberta government has announced the appointment of a new interim chief medical officer of health, days after the previous one's contract expired.
VANCOUVER -- The Vancouver Park Board says it's gearing up for "unpermitted" events on April 20 including on Sunset Beach, where thousands of people gathered in recent years to smoke cannabis to the chagrin of city officials and police.
REGINA -- The Saskatchewan legislature has unanimously passed an Opposition NDP private members' bill to formally recognize Sikh Heritage Month in April.
British Columbia Premier David Eby says talk of western provinces separating from the rest of Canada is a "tired trope" that wastes time and "needs to stop."
OTTAWA -- The Supreme Court of Canada says it won't hear an appeal by the Alberta government regarding a decision to have its former energy minister questioned in a multibillion-dollar coal mining lawsuit.
TORONTO -- Ontario's integrity commissioner has banned a former mayor wrapped up in the Greenbelt land-swap probe from lobbying for two years.
Some of the organizations have looked to courts to obtain accreditation. Rebel News and other right-wing media outlets dominated the question-and-answer sessions with federal party leaders after Wednesday's French-language leaders' debate — though not all of them got answers to their questions. Liberal Leader Mark Carney was the first leader to take 10 minutes of questions from the media after...
VICTORIA -- A public health advocacy group is urging the British Columbia government to end a contract with an American company that owns LifeLabs, the province's main provider of outpatient lab services.
OTTAWA -- The stage will look different than originally planned Wednesday night, when Canada's major party leaders square off in the first of two nationally televised debates.
OTTAWA -- The Leaders' Debate Commission says it has rescinded its invitation to the Green Party to participate in the two federal leaders' debates.
OTTAWA -- The Leaders' Debate Commission says it has rescinded its invitation to the Green Party to participate in the two federal leaders' debates this week.
HALIFAX -- Nova Scotia's auditor general says the provincial government has made substantial progress toward completing recommendations from reports between 2020 to 2022.
TORONTO -- A new facility designed to house and support refugees and asylum seekers in Toronto is set to open next month with a focus on addressing mental health issues.
SYDNEY -- The Nova Scotia government is offering municipalities a blueprint on how they can protect the province's 13,000 kilometres of coastline.
OTTAWA -- Federal Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne has announced help for Canadian businesses affected by the trade dispute with the U.S., giving them time to adjust their supply chains.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt has announced a comprehensive review on the future of the province's Crown-owned electric utility.
OTTAWA -- Liberal Leader Mark Carney and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre are both campaigning in Montreal today and making announcements about defence procurement and justice reform.
CHARLOTTETOWN -- A P.E.I. college says it is suspending a number of programs for the upcoming school year as a result of the federal government's cap on international student study permits.
REGINA -- A rookie Saskatchewan legislature member was stripped Friday of some of her responsibilities after calling federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh a terrorist.