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OTTAWA - Ottawa's former chief trade negotiator Steve Verheul says Alberta is undermining Canada's attempts to prevent the U.S. from levying damaging tariffs. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has rallied...

SWANNANOA, N.C. (AP) - President Donald Trump said he was considering "getting rid of" the Federal Emergency Management Agency during a trip to disaster zones Friday, offering the latest sign of how h...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford plans to call a snap election Wednesday, seeking an even larger majority than his current government holds and using the threat of 25 per cent tariffs from U.S. President Don...

TORONTO - The weeks since Liam Mooney and Emma Cochrane dreamt up a viral hat meant to fend off any notion that Canada will be taken over by the U.S. has been more of a crash course in manufacturing t...

OTTAWA - Liberal leadership contender Karina Gould opened up a soul-searching debate in her party's caucus after declaring Canadians "lost trust" in the Liberals during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's...

VANCOUVER - The looming prospect of American tariffs raises the stakes for boosting the province's energy independence, British Columbia Energy Minister Adrian Dix said Thursday. There was urgency bef...

TORONTO - Premier Doug Ford plans to call a snap election next Wednesday and send Ontarians to the polls on Feb. 27, The Canadian Press has learned. Two senior government sources say Ford recently mad...

VANCOUVER - Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim has unveiled a plan to revitalize the city's troubled Downtown Eastside that includes pausing the construction of net new supportive housing units. He said he wants...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has shuffled one of his cabinet ministers and appointed a new one. The change was necessitated by the death last week of Nello Altomare, who served as minister of...

MONTREAL - Quebec's secularism law, known as Bill 21, was challenged in court as soon as it was adopted more than five years ago. With the Supreme Court of Canada announcing Thursday it will hear argu...