Politics

The Education Department concluded Wednesday that Maine’s education office violated Title IX antidiscrimination law by allowing transgender girls to play on girls’ sports teams and use girls’ sports facilities.

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said Wednesday that China has executed four Canadians in recent months.

TORONTO — Ontario Premier Doug Ford named a new cabinet Wednesday with many familiar faces to tackle the challenges that a trade war with the United States will bring, though he did shuffle his housing, education and environment ministers.

VANCOUVER — The University of British Columbia has banned Chinese AI tool DeepSeek's applications from being used or installed on university-owned devices and networks, citing "a high degree of privacy and security risk.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democratic Gov.

VANCOUVER — The federal government says it's pumping nearly $100 million into two B.C. firms to support the construction of a hydrogen fuel facility and two "cutting-edge biomanufacturing facilities" for vaccines and other treatments.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Social Security Administration's plan to require in-person identity checks for millions of new and existing recipients while simultaneously closing government offices has sparked a furor among lawmakers, advocacy groups and prog

OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives and NDP won't say how or if they're vetting their candidates' claims to Indigenous identity — even though both parties went after a Liberal MP last year over his shifting statements about his background.

WINNIPEG — A First Nations-led project to redevelop the historic Hudson's Bay Co. building in downtown Winnipeg to advance reconciliation has doubled in cost nearly three years after it started.

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba government signalled Wednesday that its new budget will include supports for people affected by tariffs imposed by the United States and new spending to create jobs.