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Three tobacco giants would pay billions of dollars to provincial and territorial governments as well as smokers across Canada as part of a proposed deal in a corporate restructuring process set off by a legal battle over the health effects of smoking

Three tobacco giants would pay close to $25 billion to provinces and territories and more than $4 billion to tens of thousands of Quebec smokers and their loved ones as part of a newly proposed deal in a corporate restructuring process triggered by a

WABAMUN, Alta. — Mounties say they're treating the death of a five-year-old girl pulled from an Alberta lake as a criminal matter. RCMP said Sunday that two people had been found after a canoe overturned on Wabamun Lake west of Edmonton.

OTTAWA — First Nations chiefs have voted to reject a landmark $47.8-billion child welfare reform deal, reached in July with the Canadian government.

An Amber Alert for a baby boy in Saskatchewan has been cancelled after police say the infant was found and appears safe. RCMP initially said a five-day-old baby boy had been taken from a health clinic in Montreal Lake.

OTTAWA — India's foreign ministry says Canada is trying to smear New Delhi, as the country doubles down on rejecting claims its government officials have worked with criminal gangs in the extortion, coercion and murder of Canadian citizens.

VANCOUVER — More than a million British Columbians have already cast their provincial election ballots, smashing the advance voting record ahead of what weather forecasters say will be a rain-drenched election day in much of B.C.

OTTAWA — With a simmering mutiny plot in the backbenches and four more cabinet ministers deciding not to seek re-election, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's attempt to right the Liberal ship and stay on as captain is becoming more challenging.

A former Canadian Olympic snowboarder is wanted in the U.S.

REGINA — Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe is promising a directive banning "biological boys" from using school changing rooms with "biological girls" if re-elected, a move the NDP's Carla Beck says weaponizes vulnerable kids.