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OTTAWA — A U.S. senator is calling on Prime Minister Mark Carney to move quickly on repealing the digital services tax. "You all, to your credit, said you're not going to collect it.

RICHMOND — The man accused of hijacking a plane and triggering a security scare at Vancouver International Airport last week faces a second charge related to the rogue flight. B.C.

HUNTSVILLE, ONT. — Ontario, British Columbia, Nunavut, Yukon and the Northwest Territories have announced agreements to boost internal trade, improve labour mobility and remove barriers to doing business together.

OTTAWA — Several Conservative MPs are criticizing the Crown's approach to prosecuting two key organizers of the "Freedom Convoy" protests, with the party's deputy leader calling it an act of "political vengeance.

JASPER, ALTA. — The mayor of Jasper says he stands by a report commissioned by his town that criticizes Premier Danielle Smith’s government response to a wildfire that destroyed a third of the Rocky Mountain community.

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WASHINGTON — The Association on American Indian Affairs is condemning U.

OTTAWA — A Palestinian student accepted by the University of Alberta is now preparing to continue his studies in France because he says that country was able to get him out of Gaza to safety — and Canada wasn't.

The notice of civil claim filed in Vancouver stated that under solitary confinement practices, inmates were placed in cells and "denied any meaningful human contact for at least 22 hours per day."

MONTREAL — A Montreal father has pleaded not guilty to murder after the body of his nine-year-old daughter was found over the weekend in New York state.