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In the space of less than 24 hours, Dennis King stepped down as Prince Edward Island's premier and Rob Lantz was sworn in as his successor.

Ontario's top bureaucrat is admonishing PC Leader Doug Ford and his staff for allegedly trying to use his Washington D.C. trip last week to the party's advantage in the election campaign.

In that response, UBC Properties Trust is not taking full responsibility.

Lawyers representing three Inuit from Nunavut and Nunavik have started the process of filing for a class-action lawsuit that accuses the North's biggest grocery store chain of holding on to federal subsidy money that was supposed to be entirely passed on to consumers. 

A Liberal Party of Canada committee voted unanimously on Friday to disqualify former MP Ruby Dhalla from the race to be the next leader.

John Sproule's shirt was pulled over his head and he was taking punches to the face when he says he took out a pocket knife and began "swinging it frantically trying to get the attack to stop."

The party said the Liberal Leadership Vote Committee unanimously disqualified Dhalla over 10 'extremely serious' rule violations it said were made.

Authorities in India, acting on information first reported by The Fifth Estate, have raided a home and questioned a key suspect wanted in connection with the theft of gold worth more than $20 million Cdn from Toronto's Pearson airport. 

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association and other advocate groups are urging the federal government to immediately pause the Safe Third Country Agreement.

A 15-year-old student in Alberta is taking what began as a school assignment into the real world.

The N.W.T.'s nominee program will be open for applications for a one-week period, starting Feb. 27.

Internal Trade Minister Anita Anand informed the provinces Friday that Ottawa will remove more than half of federal internal trade barriers in a move to make Canada less reliant on the United States, according to a senior federal government source.

Deputy Chief Devin Laforce and Deputy Chief Warren Driechel have been appointed to the shared role of interim chief.

Bank of Canada governor Tiff Macklem said the shock from U.S. tariffs would be very different from the economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Less than a week out from election day, the Ontario NDP and Liberals released their full list of campaign promises with price tags attached on Friday.

Longtime Progressive Conservative politician Rob Lantz has been sworn in as Prince Edward Island's 34th premier Friday. 

Three decades after it rose at the corner of Dundas and Richmond Streets, only one tenant now calls London's Market Tower home — a lone mobile phone retailer on the ground floor.

In an interview with Global News, Ruby Dhalla said she made a new request a week ago for a 'personal translator' but has yet to hear back from the party.

Thousands of Canadians hoping to escape the relentless snow and cold at home have had their vacation dreams dashed after Sunwing cancelled all southbound flights out of two of the country's busiest airports this week.

There has been one constant in Ontario this winter: a non-stop amount of snow that has left those responsible for clearing roads scrambling to keep up.

Another winter storm is heading for Newfoundland's east coast, prompting Environment Canada to issue another round of winter weather warnings.

The NDP candidate for Sault Ste. Marie says she wishes more candidates would show up for debates in the lead-up to the Feb. 27 provincial election.

For the last few years, Lakhanpal Singh has had to work two jobs to make ends meet.

As a former premier of New Brunswick and Canadian ambassador to the United States, Frank McKenna has been through two free trade negotiations and countless tense moments.

The City of Calgary is seeking feedback on a four kilometre Red Line LRT expansion south with two new stations at Silverado and 210 Avenue South.

Jennifer Turcotte says no one wants to raise kids in a town knowing their backyard, soil and air contain high levels of arsenic.

Canadians who recently travelled to Mexico are calling on local authorities to investigate after dozens of guests got sick at the all-inclusive beachside resort they stayed at.

A group of Saskatchewan drivers say they've been unfairly charged hundreds of dollars in speeding tickets after driving through a poorly marked construction zone.

A number of groups are urging political leaders — and Liberal leadership hopefuls — to make a basic income guarantee a priority.

The Alberta government is working to co-ordinate an in-person meeting with a northern Alberta First Nation to discuss an ambitious plan from celebrity investor Kevin O'Leary to build a massive artificial intelligence data centre. 

In online posts that were collectively viewed hundreds of thousands of times, some social media users have claimed that a photo of a Mark Carney campaign event was AI-generated.

As the future of the Windsor-Detroit tunnel bus sits in limbo, federal Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon is urging Windsor city council to keep it going.

Alberta is reviewing new guidance on H5N1 avian influenza vaccines, and who could be prioritized for getting them, as shipments are readied to fan out across the country and concerns about the virus grow.

If U.S. President Donald Trump imposes tariffs on Canadian goods, experts say Canada has a strong case to challenge it under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico free trade agreement.

Election Day is a week away, but those eager to cast their ballots in the provincial election have a few options to get their votes in early.

Publicist Adam Gonshor in an email to The Associated Press confirmed Chantal Kreviazuk changed the lyric from 'in all of us command' to 'that only us command.'

Fefe Dobson has toured the world, achieved pop-punk stardom and found a new home in Nashville, but she’s never truly left Scarborough behind.

Public safety made its way into the Ontario election campaign spotlight this week, with several of the province's largest police unions taking the rare step of publicly endorsing PC Leader Doug Ford.

When the time comes for people to look back and study the political yesterdays of Prince Edward Island Premier Dennis King, history will give a favourable review, says UPEI political scientist Don Desserud.

A woman on trial for dangerous driving causing death in a fatal collision in 2022 testified in the N.W.T. Supreme Court on Thursday, saying she didn't put much thought into her driving that night.

Picture this: You're wandering around the grocery store, trying to buy Canadian. That carton of blueberries is a no go — and that loaf of bread doesn't make the cut, either. The juice you wanted to buy was made in Canada … using imported ingredients. 

Ken Rekowski has had to make a home of his room at the Renfrew Victoria Hospital for most of the last 16 years.

'I'm physically and mentally drained and I haven't even gotten there yet,' says a New Brunswicker eager to start her sunny vacation after multiple delays and cancellations.

Doug Ford's plan for a tunnel under Highway 401 has gone from a surprise announcement to a full on re-election pledge.

Even when a one-of-a-kind program is supporting over 100 rural women experiencing intimate partner violence, it's still hard to find the money to keep it running, says the head of Hamilton's Interval House.

The provincial government is defending a land sale to the Crosbie Group — owned by a prominent St. John's business family — as the PCs accuse the governing Liberals of corruption over a deal involving 32 acres of undeveloped and "landlocked" property in the east end of the capital city.

Premier Tim Houston announced Thursday in Ontario that he plans to introduce legislation to make trade between Nova Scotia and other provinces and territories easier.

The owners of a Fredericton company that prepares and supplies beverage cans for craft breweries say they are anxious about 25 per cent tariffs on aluminum and steel, announced by U.S. President Donald Trump, that are set to take effect March 12. 

After it was declared the worst humanitarian crisis in the world by the African Union, Federal Immigration Minister Marc Miller says Canada is committing to resettle 4,700 refugees fleeing the ongoing civil war in Sudan. 

No words can express how the mother of a 19-year-old murdered during an armed robbery still feels, more than two years after her son was killed as he worked the late shift at a Winnipeg beer vendor, court heard during sentencing arguments Thursday for the man convicted of pulling the trigger.