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OTTAWA — Ottawa police announced Friday that a Montreal man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of a woman killed in a park in front of her children.

OTTAWA — The federal government is giving Canada Post the ability to store and transport prohibited firearms in new regulations that bring the retail gun buyback program one step closer to beginning. An order-in-council dated Oct.

Federal environment officials will be able to quickly analyze how climate change is shifting the odds of extreme cold temperatures starting this winter, officials said Friday, broadening the application of a system rolled out over the summer to study

VANCOUVER — Employers and the union representing foremen at British Columbia's ports will return to the negotiating table next week with a mediator in the latest push for a resolution in the labour dispute.

MONTREAL — Quebec's social services minister says he's outraged by reports that educators at a detention centre for youth in Montreal had sexual relations with minor detainees — and that one of the employees allegedly had a baby with a teenage reside

OTTAWA — Canada's long-held consensus on immigration is under threat but has not disappeared, the immigration minister said in an interview after announcing a major cut to the number of newcomers to Canada.

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said Friday that Canada strongly condemns a new surge of "horrifying violence" perpetrated by gangs in Haiti.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Most Canadians would back Harris in U.S.: poll If Canadians could vote in the U.S. election, a majority would choose to send Kamala Harris to the White House.

WASHINGTON — If Canadians could vote in the U.S. election, a majority would choose to send Kamala Harris to the White House.

The Greater Vancouver Zoo is mourning the death of one of its iconic animals after Jenga the giraffe was found dead in his barn on Wednesday.