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EDMONTON - Alberta's government is proposing changes to give it more oversight of who hires temporary foreign workers. Jobs and Immigration Minister Joseph Schow proposed a bill Wednesday that, if pas...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is paying a U.S. firm to find emergency room physicians south of the border for temporary posts, largely in rural and northern communities. Shared Health, the provin...

HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY - The federal government says it will spend a record-setting $8 billion on defence-related projects in Newfoundland and Labrador, though planning remains in the early stages. Th...

ST. JOHN'S - Schools were closed in parts of Atlantic Canada on Wednesday as the region faced yet another onslaught of snow, freezing rain and howling winds, prolonging a winter season that has been d...

Duck Lake - a Saskatchewan community steeped in history that includes Louis Riel and the Northwest Rebellion - will not be renamed for a corporate sponsor. The mayor says a campaign accepting bids to ...

OTTAWA - Two First Nations chiefs are calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to apologize for saying he could "outlast" a First Nations woman who was protesting over mercury poisoning in her community....

OTTAWA - Monetary policy-makers at the Bank of Canada are relying more heavily on their own reasoning to chart a course for the policy interest rate through conflicting economic signals tied to the wa...

REGINA - Groups that represent doctors in Saskatchewan say they're worried a bill that proposes to force treatment on those battling drug addictions could put additional pressure on squeezed emergency...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says he's still committed to delivering incentives to help Canadians go green, something he promised during his bid for the Liberal leadership a year ago but has so...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand will join talks Thursday with her counterparts from more than 30 other nations on finding diplomatic options to reopen the critical Strait of Hormuz trade...