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QUBEC - The Quebec Conservatives now have an elected member in the national assembly after a former cabinet minister with the Coalition Avenir Qubec crossed the floor to join the party. Mat Blanchette...

A Swiss government official has confirmed the three people who died in an avalanche in northwestern British Columbia on Sunday were Swiss nationals. Silvana Renggli with the Consulate General of Switz...

OTTAWA - The federal government says it has no plans to reopen its embassy in Syria. Gregory Galligan is Canada's ambassador to Lebanon and also covers Syria, and he tells the House foreign affairs co...

OTTAWA - The union representing staff at Global Affairs Canada says the foreign service is laying off dozens of its most skilled diplomats, while asking other envoys moving across continents to wait m...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says Ottawa is working in "full co-operation" with U.S. officials to probe the crash of an Air Canada jet at New York's LaGuardia Airport that killed two pilots Sun...

OTTAWA - Judges must have the legal right to issue non-binding judgments in cases where governments override sections of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, a lawyer for the attorney general of Canada...

MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police say an inmate at Donnacona Institution has died following an attack at the federal prison near Quebec City. Police say two inmates in their 20s were attacked by fel...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney says Ottawa is working in "full co-operation" with officials in the United States to probe the crash of an Air Canada jet at New York's LaGuardia Airport that kille...

OTTAWA - Air Canada CEO Michael Rousseau was slammed by Prime Minister Mark Carney and Quebec's government on Wednesday for delivering an English-only message of condolence after Sunday's deadly plane...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed ... Tributes for Quebec pilot killed in N.Y. crash The death of Air Canada Jazz pilot Antoine Forest, who perishe...