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VICTORIA - Job action affecting public service workers in British Columbia got underway this week, after a strike notice issued by the B.C. General Employees' Union expired on Tuesday. Here are five t...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) - Florida will work to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, building on the effort by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to curb vaccine requirements and other he...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government wants a judge to declare insolvent the North American branch of Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt. Quebec filed the court application in an attempt to recoup some...

TORONTO - Toronto Metropolitan University opened Canada's newest medical school this week, with 94 students who administrators believe reflect the diversity needed among this country's future doctors....

CALGARY - Federal investigators are looking into a train derailment in British Columbia's Kootenay region near the Alberta boundary. The Transportation Safety Board says in a statement that a team is ...

MONTREAL - Quebec's workplace safety board says Montreal's transit constables fear for their security and should be better armed. Its recommendation is included in a report the board produced for the ...

It was a busy few days for the Nipawin Fire Department (NFD). They were called to a collision between a semi and a pickup truck Friday morning near the Rolling Pines Golf Course. (Nipawin Fire Departm...

MONTREAL - A coroner says Quebec's child protection services failed a young girl from Granby, Que., whose death in 2019 galvanized the province into reforming the system. Ghane Kamel's report says ins...

Over the course of three hours on Tuesday, emergency responders in Prince Albert responded to three separate incidents involving a collision between a vehicle and a pedestrian.And in every case, the d...

VANCOUVER - Heat warnings and air-quality advisories are persisting in parts of British Columbia after daily high temperature records fell in a dozen communities, and the mercury rose to 40 C in the F...