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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...

HALIFAX - Some Halifax-area landlords on Monday defended their use of fixed-term leases as necessary to recoup costs under Nova Scotia's rent cap, despite criticism the leases help property owners ski...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's finance minister says the province recorded a surplus of $500.8 million for the fiscal year that ended in March. Ernie Steeves says the amount - more than 10 times higher...

For the first time in their history, members of the Cree community of Nemaska received a visit from a sitting Quebec premier on Sunday and were able to share first-hand the story of how they were disp...

MONTREAL - Experts say factors including public opinion and politics helped push Air Canada toward a deal that secured major wage gains for pilots. Yesterday, the country's biggest airline and the uni...

EDMONTON - Alberta's energy minister is promising strong action by next fall to clean up the province's growing backlog of unreclaimed oil and gas sites. "There are many oil wells to reclaim and the c...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says the government is making some changes to mortgage rules to help more Canadians to purchase their first home. She says the changes will come into force ...