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FREDERICTON - The leader of New Brunswick's Progressive Conservatives is promising to make financial literacy part of the school curriculum if his party wins the Oct. 21 election Blaine Higgs campaign...

OTTAWA - French President Emmanuel Macron is in Canada for a brief visit to Ottawa and Montreal. Macron arrived last night from New York and had an informal dinner at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's h...

TORONTO - A coalition of disability rights groups says it is launching a Charter challenge against a part of Canada's law on medical assistance in dying. The group, which also includes two individual ...

British Columbians could find out who wins the provincial election on Oct. 19 in about the same time it took to start counting ballots in previous votes. Andrew Watson, a spokesman for Elections BC, s...

OTTAWA - The federal government is mulling new ways to inform the public about possible foreign interference developments during an election campaign, a senior official told a commission of inquiry Th...

MONTREAL - National Bank of Canada has cleared a key regulatory hurdle in its proposed acquisition of Canadian Western Bank. The Montreal-based bank said Thursday it has received the Competition Burea...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... B.C., N.B. leaders seem to agree on drug treatment As they both campaign for re-election, the premiers of Brit...

MONTREAL - Visual effects and animation companies are uniting to strike a better deal with the Quebec government after it implemented tax changes that some firms say will cost them nearly two-thirds o...

Nigel Gambier has always been proud of his ancestor, who captained one of the ill-starred ships on Sir John Franklin's disastrous expedition in search of the Northwest Passage. Now, after DNA analysis...

British Columbia's high cost of living has made it a pivotal issue in the provincial election on Oct. 19. Here is a look at changes in components of the consumer price index in British Columbia since ...