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SURREY -- The police board in Surrey, B.C., says it has chosen its next chair, days after the last chair resigned over a controversial dismissal of the city's police chief.
THOMPSON -- The chief of a northern Manitoba First Nation says her community is so overwhelmed by drugs and the resulting violence that her members live in fear.
TORONTO -- Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc said he expects to see bilateral agreements negotiated with the United States as Canada and Mexico look to extend a critical continental trade pact.
RICHMOND -- British Columbia's attorney general says the federal government's new online safety legislation can't come soon enough, even as it falls short of what the province wanted.
VANCOUVER -- British Columbia Premier David Eby says U.S. President Donald Trump's latest statement that he's not looking to renew the trade deal between Canada, the United States and Mexico is a "bit bizarre," given that the three countries are now in talks on the deal.
QUEBEC -- The Parti Québécois threatened on Tuesday to withdraw Quebec from the federal government's proposed high-speed rail network if the party wins the October provincial election, drawing widespread criticism from federal, provincial and municipal politicians.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservatives have tapped a former federal conservative cabinet minister and lobbyist to help redraw the map marking electoral ridings across the province.
MINITONAS -- A municipality in western Manitoba has declared a state of local emergency as it deals with flooding, power outages and a gas line leak.
The federal government is starting public consultations on the fate of Toronto's island airport, which the province wants to expand to make room for jets.
TORONTO -- Toronto police say they will work with officers from other countries during the FIFA World Cup to manage international fan groups.
HALIFAX -- Unionized long-term care workers in Nova Scotia are expected to begin voting today on a tentative contract that could bring an end to a labour dispute now in its eighth week.
VANCOUVER -- Eldorado Gold Corp. says the first copper concentrate was produced at its McIlvenna Bay project in Saskatchewan on Sunday.
CALGARY -- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is expected to call for a shift in federal policies as an antidote for separatist sentiment in Alberta.
CALGARY -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says the law will be enforced if First Nations communities engage in civil disobedience over her government's separation referendum.
CALGARY -- Alberta's government is eyeing train connections between airports and the downtown cores of its two biggest cities as the first key project of the province's new passenger rail plan.
QUEBEC -- Quebec's health minister tabled a bill on Friday banning the sale of energy drinks to youth under the age of 16, describing the measure as an "extremely important" step to protect young people's health.
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QUEBEC -- Quebec's health minister is set to table a bill taking aim at the potentially harmful effects of energy drinks on teens, but one member of the provincial legislature could block its adoption until after an upcoming general election this fall.
LONGUEUIL -- A Quebec Court judge is expected to rule today in the case of a former Hydro-Quebec employee who is charged with carrying out economic espionage for the benefit of China.
BOWEN ISLAND -- A former RCMP officer in British Columbia has been charged with sharing sensitive information.
LANGFORD -- The days of chopping down a tree and paying stumpage fees are on the way out for the timber industry, Canada's forest ministers have heard, with the hope of a revival pinned on a new task force report.
MONTREAL -- A Quebec bill that would expand the province's strict language laws to adult education and vocational training is drawing criticism.
HALIFAX -- Nova Scotia says it added a large number of new doctors during the last fiscal year.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt says the pay-what-you-can school lunch program she promised in the 2024 provincial election campaign will roll out this fall.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick Green Party Leader David Coon says he plans to step down after 14 years in the role.
HALIFAX -- The federal government has announced a new industry-led alliance aimed at growing the skilled workforce for Canada’s mining industry, which is struggling to fill key jobs.
FREDERICTON -- New Brunswick Green Party Leader David Coon says he plans to step down after 14 years in the role.
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PENTICTON -- The City of Penticton has cancelled an evacuation order and lifted a state of local emergency about a week after a fire burned down the site of a long-term care home.
PELICAN NARROWS -- The hunt is back on for a suspect in a deadly shooting this week at a remote northern Saskatchewan First Nation, Mounties said Wednesday.
QUEBEC -- The premiers of Alberta and Quebec say they want to take inspiration from each other on how to grow autonomy within Canada.
TORONTO -- Ontario's incoming interim Treasury Board president says there will be "flexibility" in work arrangements for public service employees during the upcoming FIFA World Cup.
TORONTO -- Ontario's incoming interim Treasury Board president says there will be "flexibility" in work arrangements for public service employees during the upcoming FIFA World Cup.
QUEBEC -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says her tenuous grasp of the French language and other differences shouldn't get in the way of Alberta and Quebec deepening their economic ties.
QUEBEC -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, in her first public event in Quebec City, delivered a short speech in French and commiserated over the playoff demise of the Montreal Canadiens.
WINNIPEG -- Manitoba's premier was on hand to lend a hand as Lumi the orphaned lynx began her new life at Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park Zoo.
EDMONTON -- Alberta's government says it will begin rolling out three-in-one identification cards, ultimately replacing the province's long-reviled paper health cards
VANCOUVER -- Vancouver's city council has voted not to sanction Mayor Ken Sim after he was found to have misused the influence of his office and harassed a councillor.
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Prime Minister Mark Carney says the federal government has reached a new deal with Quebec to transfer billions of dollars in funding for infrastructure.
PICKERING -- A Pickering, Ont., city councillor previously embroiled in multiple misconduct complaints and pay suspensions has announced she's running for mayor in this year's municipal elections.
ST. JOHN'S -- Oil production is ramping up off Newfoundland and Labrador and the government is offering money to companies interested in looking for more.
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OTTAWA -- Federal Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald says Benoit Basillais has been reappointed as CEO of the Canadian Dairy Commission.
HALIFAX -- Five public libraries in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley will be permanently closed later this month because of a lack of funding.
CALGARY -- Alberta is rolling out a new surgery funding model that ties money to patients, starting in a dozen public hospitals across the province.
MONTREAL -- Quebec's domestic security minister has opened an investigation linked to the police shooting of a 15-year-old boy in September on Montreal's South Shore.
OTTAWA -- Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is stepping up his attack on Liberal policies with a call for an emergency parliamentary debate on the economy.
VANCOUVER -- Members of the Conservative Party of British Columbia have voted for former federal Conservative MP Kerry-Lynne Findlay to be their next leader.
ST. JOHN'S -- The Newfoundland and Labrador government has dropped a lawsuit challenging the federal equalization program.
VICTORIA -- Elections BC says it has found no evidence of deliberate violations in a Metro Vancouver riding that helped give the NDP government a one-seat majority after the 2024 provincial vote.
OTTAWA -- The federal government posted a deficit of $55.28 billion for its 2025-26 fiscal year compared with a $43.15-billion deficit a year earlier, according to the Finance Department's monthly fiscal monitor report.
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OTTAWA -- Former cabinet minister Steven Guilbeault is set to resign as a member of Parliament, sources have told The Canadian Press.
KANANASKIS -- Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew is urging Premier Danielle Smith to press pause on her fall separation referendum.
MONTREAL -- A Quebec watchdog is calling for major reforms to provincial lobbying rules.
VICTORIA -- British Columbia Education Minister Lisa Beare says legal errors that forced the government to reinstate the entire Victoria school board that it fired last year were significant but "inadvertent."
WINNIPEG -- The longtime president of the Manitoba Metis Federation has been acclaimed in the organization's upcoming general election.
SHERBROOKE -- Quebec Premier Christine Frechette says she's removing provincial sales tax from some grocery and pharmacy items to address cost-of-living concerns.
WINNIPEG -- The group representing physicians in Manitoba is adding its voice in support of the province's proposed plan to ban social media and artificial intelligence chatbots for children and youth.