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EDMONTON - Observers are criticizing Alberta Energy Minister Brian Jean's suggestions on how the province might clean up its thousands of abandoned oil wells, saying they favour industry and lack inpu...

WASHINGTON - While Canada cannot escape the gravitational pull of an increasingly unstable United States, a new report is charting a path forward to ensure Canadian interests become more important to ...

TORONTO - Experts say Ottawa's changes to mortgage rules could help spur demand among potential homebuyers, but supply challenges are likely to persist in Canada's real estate sector despite lofty goa...

OTTAWA - Inflation has come down from its highs, and groceries are no exception. Statistics Canada reported on Tuesday that grocery prices in August rose 2.4 per cent from the year before, a far cry f...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada has changed the way it tracks the price of wireless plans in an effort to capture a more accurate picture of what Canadians are paying when it calculates the inflation rate....

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.0 per cent in August, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated widely becau...

OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.0 per cent in August, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrador: 1.3 per cen...

EDMONTON - Calgary city council has voted to end work on Calgary's first phase of its long-sought $6.2-billion Green Line light rail transit project at a cost of at least $2.1 billion. At a Tuesday me...

OTTAWA - Canada's inflation rate fell to two per cent last month, finally hitting the Bank of Canada's target after a tumultuous battle with skyrocketing price growth. The annual inflation rate fell f...

TORONTO - Sanniah Jabeen holds a sonogram of the unborn baby she lost after contracting listeria last December. Beneath, it says "love at first sight." Jabeen says she believes she and her baby were p...