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OTTAWA - Justice Minister Sean Fraser apologized Wednesday for comments he made about the government's duty to consult with Indigenous leaders on major projects. Fraser said Tuesday that the UN Declar...

TORONTO - Canada's steel industry needs the federal government to take swift action as it faces an existential threat from steeply increased U.S. tariff, said Catherine Cobden, head of the Canadian St...

Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu on Wednesday called on Canada Post and the union representing 55,000 postal workers to return to the bargaining table and hash out terms for binding arbitration, with the two...

TORONTO - Marie-Louise Fitrion says she was asleep in a hospital bed when she woke up to an obstetrician's hand in her vagina. It was Oct. 25, 2018, the morning of giving birth to her second child, an...

OTTAWA - The Liberal minority government's first real test comes today as MPs are scheduled to vote on the government's throne speech. The Liberals lost a vote Monday evening when opposition members s...

OTTAWA - The federal minister of Indigenous services says she and the other Indigenous members of cabinet support their party's plan to fast-track infrastructure development - despite significant push...

QUBEC - Representatives of the Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador urged a provincial legislature committee on Tuesday to abandon a forestry reform bill that would reserve large swaths of the pr...

OTTAWA - Canada's tourism industry might be in for a boost as Canadians boycott the United States and spend their travel dollars closer to home this year. In a report released May 29, the Conference B...

OTTAWA - The MP overseeing Canada's foreign aid is calling on Israel to stop restricting the flow of food aid to the Gaza Strip - while Israel's ambassador is pushing back on Ottawa's suggestion that ...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sued New Jersey's top federal prosecutor on Tuesday over his arrest on a trespassing charge at a federal immigration detention facility, saying the Trump-ap...