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OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau will get some help from a second former prime minister when Jean Chretien takes part in a Liberal campaign event today.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Stephen Harper and Liberal counterpart Justin Trudeau both say the party that emerges from the Oct. 19 election with the most seats in Parliament should have a chance to form a government.

OTTAWA — Battleground Ontario: starved for jobs, but swimming in votes.

OTTAWA — Europe’s migrant and refugee crisis washed over the Canadian federal election trail Thursday, sweeping the immigration minister from the hustings to deal with Canada’s response to the case of a Syrian family who drowned while trying to get t

VANCOUVER — B.C. Hydro said Tuesday that the windstorm that knocked out power in thousands of homes and businesses on the weekend is believed to be the largest such outage ever for the utility.

VANCOUVER — The president of the University of British Columbia’s abrupt resignation so early into his first term amounts to a leadership crisis, says the head of the school’s faculty association.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia residents are again being asked to curb water use as drought conditions persist.

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Nerves were frayed across much of southern Manitoba and parts of Saskatchewan on Monday night as a large band of severe weather spawned funnel clouds and produced heavy rain and damaging hail.

An Alberta judge who attended the University of Victoria law school and practised here has been named to the Supreme Court of Canada.