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EDMONTON — Premier Danielle Smith says Alberta will continue its $7.5-million pension-exit advertising and survey campaign, despite acknowledging the key dollar figure is disputed and likely headed to court.

TORONTO — Strolling between rows of books and a seemingly endless array of other wares at Indigo Books and Music Inc.’s newest store in Toronto’s The Well building on Thursday, Heather Reisman is in her element.

A Vancouver "compassion club" that had been funded by the British Columbia government has been raided by police over alleged drug trafficking.

CALGARY — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told delegates at a climate conference in Calgary on Thursday that achieving an electricity grid that depends on renewable power by 2035 is "fantasy thinking.

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals are increasing the carbon price rebate for rural Canadians and lifting the carbon price off home heating oil entirely for the next three years, as affordability concerns leave their party flailing in the polls in Atlanti

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sat down behind closed doors with senior members of opposition parties on Thursday to discuss Canada's approach to the latest conflict between Israel and the armed militant group Hamas.

OTTAWA — The Impact Assessment Agency of Canada will revisit 23 projects it is currently reviewing to ensure there is clear federal jurisdiction, after a Supreme Court decision found parts of the law strayed into provincial territory, Environment Min

BASEL, Switzerland — Defending champion Felix Auger-Aliassime of Montreal advanced to the quarterfinals of the Swiss Indoors tennis tournament with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Dutch qualifier Botic van de Zandschulp on Thursday.

SURREY, B.C. — An Oregon man has been sentenced to 20 years in a U.S. federal prison for sexually exploiting three British Columbia children. RCMP say 37-year-old Kevin McCarty of Happy Valley, Ore.