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MONTREAL — The Quebec government is calling for the resignation of the federal government's special representative to combat Islamophobia.

OTTAWA — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith's office says the province objects to Ottawa's plan to extend eligibility for medically assisted death to people whose sole underlying condition is a mental illness.

OTTAWA — Tamil diaspora groups are praising Ottawa's sanctions on Sri Lanka officials, while asking Canada to bring that country to international tribunals.

OTTAWA — The World Health Organization decided Monday not to declare an end to the COVID-19 global public health emergency.

Marc Ouellet, the Quebec cardinal who oversaw the Vatican's powerful bishops' office and has been recently accused of sexual misconduct, is retiring.

Canadian experts and advocates say the firing and charging of the five Memphis, Tenn.

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OTTAWA — Federal New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh says he will call on the House of Commons to hold an emergency debate on the privatization of health care.

MONTREAL — Victor Manuel, a young asylum seeker from Mexico, arrived at Montreal's St-Donat school on a frigid morning last week with his seven-year-old son and baby boy, whose bootless feet were covered only in socks.

OTTAWA — Economic matters will be top of mind for parliamentarians as they return to Ottawa to kick off a new year in federal politics.