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OTTAWA — A parliamentary committee has been given three days to debate and vote on nearly 300 amendments to a controversial overhaul of Canada's elections law — a tight time frame the Opposition NDP is calling a "farce.

OTTAWA — NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says he wants to see details of amendments the Harper Conservatives say they'll make to their contentious Fair Elections Act.

TORONTO — Canada will require a three-year phase out or retrofit of the type of rail tankers involved in last summer's massive explosion of an oil train that destroyed much of a Quebec town and incinerated 47 people, a government official told The As

HALIFAX — Finance Minister Joe Oliver says he plans to resist pressures to stimulate the economy with federal money as Ottawa remains focused on bringing in a balanced budget next year.

Parliamentarian known as The Gray Fog was a master of deflection in the House of Commons

TORONTO - Air Canada is apologizing after a video apparently showing a baggage handler dropping luggage from roughly six metres off the ground hit social media.

TORONTO — Air Canada says two baggage handlers appearing in a video that shows luggage being dropped from roughly six metres have been suspended and will lose their jobs.

OTTAWA, Ont. — Canada’s official gift shop is tucked into the fourth floor of a government building in nearby Gatineau, Que., but you won’t see any tourists lining up at the cash register to buy coffee mugs adorned with Mounties.

CALGARY — Funeral services are set today for three of the five young people who were stabbed to death at a Calgary house party.

OTTAWA — Frisbees, hula hoops, reggae and the slightly skunky aroma of burning bud masked a serious policy dispute Sunday afternoon on Parliament Hill.