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OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer is estimating the Liberals' plan to send one-time payments this summer to seniors over 75 and then boost their old-age benefits thereafter will cost slightly ...

OTTAWA - Federal politicians are faced with the country's legacy of residential schools as July 1 approaches, with the Conservative leader railing against calls to cancel Canada Day, while Liberal min...

MONTREAL - Quebec television producer Luc Wiseman, facing charges including sexual assault against a minor, has to abide by new bail conditions imposed Wednesday during his arraignment in Montreal. Wi...

The latest news on COVID-19 developments in Canada (all times eastern): 6:40 p.m. British Columbia is reporting increasing immunization numbers, with more than 77 per cent of adults having received a ...

HALIFAX - A Halifax police constable who helped arrest a man who died of suffocation in a lockup cell in 2016 told a hearing Wednesday he left a spit hood on the detainee's head because he feared the ...

MOSCOW (AP) - Russia said one of its warships in the Black Sea fired warning shots and a warplane dropped bombs Wednesday to force a British destroyer out of an area near Crimea that Moscow claims as ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - An airstrike hit a busy market in Ethiopia's northern Tigray village of Togoga on Tuesday and killed at least 51 people, according to health workers who said soldiers blocked med...

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - A powerful car bomb went off near the residence of a jailed anti-India militant leader in the eastern city of Lahore on Wednesday, killing at least three people and wounding 15...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of June 23 ... What we are watching in Canada ......

OTTAWA - The House of Commons rose Wednesday for the summer - and possibly for an election - after giving eleventh-hour approval to what the minority Liberal government considers its priority legislat...