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OTTAWA -- The federal government is proposing giving authority to review interprovincial pipelines and transmission lines, and offshore renewable energy projects, to the Canada Energy Regulator instead of the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada.
OTTAWA -- The federal government is handing hundreds of millions of dollars to Canada Post to keep the money-bleeding mail service afloat for the current fiscal year.
MONTREAL -- A group of Quebec politicians are pitching Montreal as the "logical" choice to headquarter a new multinational defence bank, while downplaying whether Quebec referendum talk could hurt the city's bid.
OTTAWA -- Defence Minister David McGuinty said he will unveil the Liberal government's plans for the military's Snowbirds aerobatics fleet later this month, and Canadians can "rest assured" its future is secure.
The Ontario government says it is appointing an administrator to run Conestoga College after an audit discovered "significant financial misuse and governance failings" at the Kitchener, Ont., institution.
TORONTO -- Sherritt International Corp. says it has suspended its direct participation in joint venture activities in Cuba following an expansion of U.S. sanctions against the country.
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MONTREAL -- Prime Minister Mark Carney is holding his cards close to his chest on how he will go about making appointments to the Senate, amid a growing number of vacancies.
A Canadian citizen who posts anonymous online criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump has launched a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security, saying it is wrongfully trying to compel Google to unmask him.
OTTAWA -- German submarine maker TKMS says it has reached an agreement with General Dynamics Mission Systems-Canada on setting up an undersea research centre in Canada.
MIRABEL -- Airbus Canada says it will supply AirAsia with a massive order of 150 of its Canadian-made A220 jets in a multibillion-dollar coup for Quebec's aviation industry.
MONTREAL -- Claude Morin, architect of the Quiet Revolution who helped shape modern Quebec but whose political career unravelled in controversy, has died at 96.
EDMONTON -- Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's chief of staff says a caucus staffer who attended a meeting about what was later found to be a massive data breach thought it was just about a new voter tool.
OTTAWA -- Canadians across most of the country will hear the shrill screeching siren of the public alerting system today.
Quebec's labour minister says he will file a complaint with Montreal police after protesters used a guillotine on an effigy resembling him at a demonstration last Saturday.
Prime Minister Mark Carney named retired Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour as Canada's next governor general on Tuesday, hailing her as a storied defender of human rights.
WINNIPEG -- The Manitoba government is putting up $15 million to help restore a historic theatre in Winnipeg.
CALGARY -- The Competition Bureau is challenging Keyera Corp.'s proposed deal to buy the Canadian natural gas liquids business of Plains All American Pipeline LP.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney says retired Supreme Court justice Louise Arbour will become Canada's next governor general.
TORONTO -- EQB Inc. says it has received approval from the federal finance minster for its deal to acquire PC Financial from Loblaw Cos. Ltd., completing the regulatory review of its proposed acquisition.
OTTAWA -- Family and friends of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people are set to gather on Parliament Hill today.
QUEBEC -- Quebec's legislature is back in session May 5, and new Premier Christine Frechette has five weeks to push through her political agenda before the summer break -- and October's general election.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to name a new governor general today at a press conference in Ottawa.
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to name a new governor general at a press conference in Ottawa on Tuesday.
QUESNEL -- The B.C. Supreme Court has dismissed a defamation lawsuit launched by the wife of the mayor of Quesnel, B.C., against the Union of BC Indian Chiefs, after it denounced her for distributing a book questioning "atrocities" in residential schools.
EDMONTON -- Alberta separatists say they have formally submitted almost 302,000 signatures to try to trigger a referendum on the province leaving Canada.
SURREY -- Police in Surrey, B.C., are taking the rare step of releasing an image of a foreign national who has been removed from Canada as it investigates extortion violence that has plagued the city.
EDMONTON -- Alberta separatists say they have formally submitted almost 302,000 signatures to try to trigger a referendum on the province leaving Canada.
TORONTO -- A new TD survey shows more Canadians are planning to save or invest their tax refund this year as ongoing economic uncertainty shifts financial priorities.
EDMONTON -- A group of Alberta separatists gathering signatures to trigger a referendum on pulling the province out of Confederation is set to hand in its petition sheets today.
EDMONTON -- An Edmonton city councillor says he and his team are helping a woman facing intimate partner violence relocate with her children after her address was leaked in an alleged privacy breach by a separatist group.
ST. JOHN'S -- One of the world's largest credit rating agencies says surging global energy prices related to the Iran war could help tackle the deficit in Newfoundland and Labrador.
TORONTO -- Prime Minister Mark Carney should spell out to Canadians what leverage the country has over the United States in coming trade negotiations, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre asserted on Sunday.
VANCOUVER -- A plan to cut lifeguards at Vancouver beaches has been reversed but not before it drew a response from musician Peter Gabriel, who recounted his own rescue from waters off a city beach ahead of a tour stop with David Bowie in 1983.
EDMONTON -- It's the last day for Alberta separatists to gather petition signatures that could trigger a referendum on pulling the province out of Confederation.
VANCOUVER -- The long-anticipated public hearing into the police-involved death of Myles Gray in 2015 is being delayed again until the fall to give one of the seven Vancouver officers under investigation time to find a new lawyer.
BURNABY -- British Columbia Premier David Eby says plans for a hospital expansion in Burnaby are not dead, despite the government announcing this week that the construction contract had been cancelled.
VICTORIA -- The British Columbia government has reappointed Indigenous leader Angela Wesley to be the provincially appointed commissioner to the BC Treaty Commission, a post she previously held until last year.
RIVIERE-DU-LOUP -- The premier of Quebec says she feels her province is still bound by a framework energy agreement signed with Newfoundland and Labrador.
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon says it has secured a billion-dollar contract with Lockheed Martin to manufacture M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems and related equipment for Canada and other allied countries.
CHARLOTTETOWN -- Prince Edward Island's Progressive Conservatives have abandoned a much-criticized effort to soften conflict of interest rules that would have allowed a lobster fisher to serve in cabinet, a reversal applauded by the Opposition.
Prince Edward Island's legislature won't be considering changes to its conflict of interest law after all.
The nomination period for mayoral, council and school trustee candidates for this fall's Ontario municipal elections opens today.
OTTAWA -- Canada has been selected to host a multinational bank to provide "long-term, low-cost financing" for defence projects by NATO members and allies, the federal government said Wednesday.
VICTORIA -- The British Columbia government is adding 17 new major investments to its list of priority projects, and Premier David Eby says the recent wrangling over Indigenous rights legislation won't undermine that progress.
OTTAWA -- Canada has been selected to host a multinational bank to provide financing for defence projects by NATO members and allies.
VANCOUVER -- The B.C. Supreme Court has ruled the provincial government's legislation to overhaul regulation of lawyers, notaries and other legal professions is not unconstitutional.
TORONTO -- Police presence in Toronto during the World Cup may be "stronger than we've ever seen at any event," the force said Wednesday as the federal government announced up to $145 million for security over the upcoming soccer tournament.
EDMONTON -- Alberta's government is testing out a higher speed limit on a small section of highway just south of Edmonton.
ST. JOHN'S -- Newfoundland and Labrador's Progressive Conservative government tabled its financial plan for the 2026-27 fiscal year on Wednesday. The budget forecasts a deficit of $688.5 million and a $20.8 billion net debt by the end of the 2026-27 fiscal year.
HALIFAX -- A new report suggests more than 30 per cent of paid employees in Nova Scotia are in precarious jobs.
ST. JOHN'S -- Newfoundland and Labrador is projecting a deficit of $688.5 million.
ST. JOHN'S -- The Progressive Conservative government in Newfoundland and Labrador is set to table their spending plan for the indebted province's year ahead.
VANCOUVER -- A public hearing in Vancouver into the police-involved death of Myles Gray in 2015 is set to resume after a six-week adjournment.
OTTAWA -- Here's a brief look at some of the key numbers in the Liberal government's 2026 spring economic update:
OTTAWA -- The federal government is adding $755 million in sport funding as part of its spring economic update.
TORONTO -- FIFA's marketplace for resale World Cup tickets no longer has seats listed for Toronto matches after a new price cap came into effect last week.
VANCOUVER -- The B.C. Conservative Party says it's "officially debt-free" after paying off the last portion of the $5 million the party owed from the 2024 provincial election campaign.
OTTAWA -- The Royal Canadian Mint says it has initiated a full review in response to allegations some of its gold comes from a region of Colombia where drug cartels control mines.
REGINA -- Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe is calling Ottawa's new sovereign wealth fund a good initiative.