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The Trudeau government is kicking off its latest bid to replace its aging fleet of fighter jets -- and adding a new requirement to the procurement process by assessing a company's overall impact on the Canadian economy.

The mayor of Labrador’s largest community has died after he was shot in the lower face while hunting alone on the weekend near the Trans-Labrador Highway.

Two lifeless bodies were found Friday in a North York mansion owned by billionaire Barry Sherman – one of the wealthiest people in the country.

A haze of clouds is forming over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's "sunny ways" as support for the Liberal leader hits a new low.

Halifax’s fire chief apologized to all female firefighters who suffered systemic gender discrimination in the city, during a formal, negotiated apology to one former firefighter who won a settlement after a 12-year battle.

Hunting grizzly bears has been banned in British Columbia.

Victoria is the latest Canadian city to move ahead with a ban on single-use plastic shopping bags.

The first written account of Santa Claus having reindeer was in 1821, and since then most people have assumed the reindeer were male -- but a scientist says those people would be wrong.

PERTH-ANDOVER, N.B. — An elderly New Brunswick couple bid a tearful goodbye this week, separated just days before Christmas after 73 years together.

The Trudeau government is promising to provide injured veterans with more financial compensation and assistance in the form of long-promised lifelong disability pensions for those injured in uniform.

One Canadian was among 12 people killed in a bus crash in eastern Mexico, Global Affairs Canada said Wednesday.

Justin Trudeau, who came into office vowing to be the gold standard in transparency and ethical behaviour, became Wednesday the first prime minister to violate federal conflict of interest rules over a series of family vacations last year.

The Transportation Safety Board says evidence suggests a tool bag being carried outside a Hydro One helicopter struck the rear rotor of the aircraft just prior to a crash in eastern Ontario that killed all four people on board.

OTTAWA — Canadian economic growth unexpectedly paused in October as a decline in oil and gas extraction offset gains in the wholesale trade and retail sectors, data from Statistics Canada showed on Friday.

OTTAWA — Opposition parties are demanding that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau repay taxpayers for all or part of the transportation and security costs for a Christmas vacation to the Aga Khan’s private Bahamian island last year — which left taxpayers on the hook for more than $200,000.

Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland planned to use a Friday meeting in Ukraine to get more information on reports that a man arrested there this on suspicion of spying for Russia sat in on a meeting in the Prime Minister’s Office this fall.

Snow and bone-chilling cold could not dampen the enthusiasm of a British Columbia community as residents opened an outdoor ice rink Thursday night and took another step in their recovery from a deadly tragedy.

The Government of Canada's Phoenix pay system has proven once again to be a flaming pile of...well, you know.

Hundreds of Nova Scotia Power crews will spend Boxing Day stitching together power lines snapped by a winter storm that brought damaging winds to Atlantic Canada on Christmas Day.

Canada Post says it had to hire as many as 3,000 additional seasonal staff this year to deal with a record-breaking 20 per cent increase in packages over the holiday shopping season.

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