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CALGARY — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is set to share a stage in January with an American right-wing news commentator who has been accused of defending a white-supremacist theory and who spread misinformation about the war in Ukraine.

OTTAWA — Indigenous leaders from British Columbia have called on the federal government to stand by plans to transition away from open-net salmon farms, but an industry spokesman suggested the leaders were wading into political waters.

OTTAWA — The national infrastructure program to install electric chargers for passenger vehicles is too concentrated in a small number of provinces and has no data to show where the biggest gaps are, a new audit says.

BOIS-DES-FILION, Que. — A 19-year-old man has been charged with criminal negligence in the death of a young child Monday night in a Montreal suburb. Yacine Mehennaoui appeared by video at the courthouse in Laval, Que., on Tuesday afternoon.

OTTAWA — Tetiana Bodak's mind flooded with questions one year ago when she picked up the phone and learned her son had been kidnapped from their home in the Kherson region of Ukraine.

OTTAWA — As the federal government faces mounting pressure to address a national housing crisis, it announced on Tuesday that it would allow more than 2,800 homes to be built on six of its surplus properties across Canada.

OTTAWA — A Catholic archdiocese that operated four Indigenous residential schools in Manitoba and Saskatchewan has finally surrendered a long-awaited trove of records that may hold clues about their tragic history.

OTTAWA — The plan to enable Canada to reach its 2030 targets for greenhouse-gas emissions doesn't quite measure up, the federal environment commissioner says in a new audit.

TORONTO — The sexual assault case against Peter Nygard is built on a "false narrative" created by women whose testimony was not credible, his lawyer argued on Tuesday while the Crown urged the jury to reject the former fashion mogul's "blanket denial

OTTAWA — A national security watchdog says Ottawa must drive major changes to the RCMP's federal policing program to ensure Canadians are protected from the most serious threats.