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MONTREAL - Jean Charest, who made the Quebec economy his priority during his nine years as premier, settled into a new career Thursday specializing in business law.

TORONTO - Fearing a backlash against aboriginal students over the Idle No More protests, some First Nations leaders are calling on school boards to help guard against problems.

MONTREAL - Claude Cuillerier remembers being in a second-storey office at the United Nations police headquarters in Port-au-Prince when the floor suddenly collapsed, trapping colleagues in the rubble below.

WINNIPEG - The inquiry into the death of a five-year-old girl has heard of more mistreatment by her mother in March 2005 — a time when Manitoba child welfare missed a last chance to intervene before the girl was violently killed.

TORONTO - The owner of the northern Ontario mall that collapsed last summer killing two women claimed to have no money for legal help at a public inquiry into the tragedy although large sums moved in and out of his personal bank accounts, records sho

TORONTO - The race for the Ontario Liberal leadership was shaken up Thursday when Glenn Murray pulled out and threw his support behind former education minister Kathleen Wynne.

STEPHANIE LEVITZ The Canadian Press OTTAWA — The pain and suffering endured by the Victoria family of a soldier who killed himself should be used as a springboard for systemic changes to the treatment of veterans and their loved ones, the family’s la

TORONTO - There was lots of talk among the seven Ontario Liberal leadership candidates about reaching out to teachers during their final debate Wednesday, but very few specifics.

TORONTO - Ontario's beleaguered premier is promising to stop an "illegal strike" by thousands of public elementary teachers who plan to walk out Friday to protest their controversial new contracts.

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Alison Redford is ruling out tax increases as her government grapples with plummeting energy revenues and another looming deficit.