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OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says he expects the upcoming fall budget will reveal a sharp increase in Ottawa's annual deficit to $68.5 billion this year, up from $51.7 billion last year. ...

Mounties in Ontario have made seven arrests in what they say is one of the largest known dark web drug trafficking operations in Canadian history. The RCMP says the investigation began after a "takedo...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... PBO to release updated fiscal, economic outlook The parliamentary budget officer intends to publish an updated...

OTTAWA - MPs returned to the House of Commons earlier this month to confront an old problem - inflation - which is now being driven by new forces. Many consumers are still reeling from the decades-hig...

Businesses across British Columbia linked or thought to be associated with a planned cull of about 400 ostriches have been "flooded" with calls and emails with "language intended to intimidate," the R...

VICTORIA - British Columbia Finance Minister Brenda Bailey says there is some back-channel work going on around the escalating dispute between the government and striking public-sector workers, althou...

SASKATOON - One of Canada's premier vaccine centres celebrates its 50th birthday this week, but researchers say it comes amid unease over U.S. policy changes and funding cuts that threaten to upend th...

MONTREAL - An inmate accused of killing notorious serial killer Robert Pickton in a prison attack last year is expected to plead guilty today. Martin Charest was charged with first-degree murder in Ju...

OTTAWA - The number of students working for the federal government fell almost 20 per cent between 2024 and 2025. Data provided by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat shows 9,120 students were em...

MOOSE JAW - A celebrated artist whose bronze cows and portraits made him a household name across Canada was remembered in Moose Jaw recently through the lens of filmmaker Jan Nowina-Zarzycki. The Moos...