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OTTAWA — The NDP is calling for the elimination of for-profit long-term care by 2030 in a multibillion-dollar plan presented as a potential election promise.

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The unemployment rate rose 0.6 percentage points to 9.4 per cent, the highest rate since August. Almost all the job losses were in Ontario and Quebec.

A passion for collecting and a chance meeting with an elderly piano teacher helps realize a dream for an Edmonton antique dealer.

Suncor says it has restarted construction of a $1.4-billion project to install two cogeneration units at its Oil Sands Base Plant and a new $300-million wind power plant in southern Alberta.

Their motion would see the committee focus on the economic relationship between the two countries, and notes, given the ongoing pandemic, "the need for a serious plan for the economic recovery that recognizes the integration of the North American economy."

Research on people who are homeless in Ontario found they were 20 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19 than the general public, 10 times more likely to end up in intensive care and five times more likely to die within 21 days of a diagnosis.

Five Black Canadian leaders and artists offer their perspectives on both celebrating and contending with our country's Black history, and the path forward in the years to come.

Mihajlovic’s online involvement with a violent neo-Nazi website called IronMarch was first exposed by anonymous hackers in the fall of 2019.

CEO Brad Corson said demand for gasoline in January was at about 70 to 75 per cent of normal after recovering to near-normal levels in the third quarter last year.