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MONTREAL - A member of Quebec's legislature says she's taking down her professional Facebook page because she's unable to filter the hateful comments it regularly attracts. Christine Labrie of leftist...

HALIFAX - Donald Oliver, the first Black man appointed to the Senate of Canada, has died at the age of 86. Oliver's family in Nova Scotia confirmed the retired senator died Wednesday from a chronic he...

OTTAWA - A think tank is urging the federal government to abandon plans for a single-payer pharmacare program in the face of tariff-related fiscal uncertainty. Rosalie Wyonch, associate director of re...

OTTAWA - Canada's short-term targets for reducing its emissions are now out of reach after emission levels remained unchanged last year, and recent federal policies have set back Canada's progress, Ca...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Canada, Mexico to sign partnership agreement Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to sign a strategic partne...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is expected to sign a strategic partnership agreement with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum during his visit to Mexico, which starts today. The agreement will co...

A shaggy, cool-green lichen hangs from the trunk of a tree in a forest on northeastern Vancouver Island, growing on the bark like coral on a rocky sea floor. Lichenologist Trevor Goward has named it o...

MONTREAL - Outgoing Montreal Mayor Valrie Plante says Thursday's inauguration of a sixth UN office in the city is a reflection of the environmental, housing-focused agenda she's championed in her near...

Canada-wide protests are planned this weekend, a coalition of progressive civil society groups say, in what organizers call an emerging "common front" to elements of the new Liberal government's agend...

OTTAWA - The federal broadcast regulator begins a hearing today to look at which Canadian content obligations should apply to music streamers like Spotify. Streaming services argue their current effor...