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TORONTO - Treasury Board President Anita Anand says Canada has to take a "nuanced" approach to shrinking its public service in order to protect some of its tech worker ranks. Anand says she does not w...

OTTAWA - The federal government has added $36.4 million to a program designed to support people who have been seriously injured or killed by vaccines since the end of 2020. The program was announced s...

No, TikTok will not suddenly disappear from your phone. Nor will you go to jail if you continue using it after it is banned. After years of attempts to ban the Chinese-owned app, including by former P...

LAS VEGAS (AP) - The USPS announced on Tuesday it will follow through with its plan to reroute Reno-area mail processing to Sacramento, a move that drew bipartisan ire from Nevada lawmakers while rais...

TORONTO - The $5-billion announced for an Indigenous loan guarantee program in last week's budget is just a start, said Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. "Nothing would make me happier than see...

OTTAWA - A global treaty to end plastic waste will not be ambitious enough if it does not include some limits on plastic production, Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault said Tuesday as the fourth r...

HALIFAX - The current estimate for what has become known as a scaled-down version of the Atlantic Loop electrical grid project is about $700 million, the head of Nova Scotia's private power utility sa...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - The British Columbia government is contributing up to $25 million toward the expansion of a milk production plant aimed at boosting the supply of locally sourced food. The province ...

TORONTO - Equifax Canada is exploring how rent data could factor in to credit scores to help make credit and financial services accessible to more people. The agency said it has been testing small vol...

GATINEAU, Que. - The Competition Bureau says it is likely that Bunge Ltd.'s US$8.2-billion deal to acquire Viterra Ltd. would "substantially" reduce competition in the grain and canola oil markets. In...