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OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre is waging one of his final battles in the Conservative leadership race — one in which even his main rival is onside. His latest target? The jargon used by the federal bureaucracy.

Whitehorse residents are being asked to limit their water use while crews work on repairing a damaged sewer main near the Yukon River.

WINNIPEG — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused some politicians Thursday of being dishonest about the effects of the federal government's carbon tax.

OTTAWA — Police forces need to take seriously a pattern of hate and harassment targeting journalists and other public figures, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday.

OTTAWA — Health Canada approved a new COVID-19 vaccine from Moderna Thursday that targets both the original strain of the novel coronavirus and the specific Omicron variant.

EDMONTON — Alberta celebrated its inaugural birthday party holiday with Culture Minister Ron Orr bashing the prime minster and “Laurentian elites” while asserting the province has received the short end of the stick in the federation for more than a

SHERBROOKE, Que. — Liberal candidate Marwah Rizqy blamed Conservative Party of Quebec Leader Éric Duhaime on Thursday for the highly charged political climate in which elected officials are being subjected to threats and violence.

YELLOWKNIFE — Canada’s territorial premiers stressed the need to invest in northern communities and include northerners in decision-making at an Arctic Circle gathering in Greenland that concluded earlier this week.

OTTAWA — About 30 people are gathered in a small, windowless conference room on the second floor of a hotel in an Ottawa suburb, awaiting the guest of honour, who is a few minutes late. There's no podium. No microphone.

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