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WASHINGTON — Farmers in Prince Edward Island got the all-clear Friday from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to resume sending some of the world's most celebrated table potatoes back over the Canada-U.S. border.

OTTAWA — Ukrainian legislators are asking Canada to give their country the money it needs to buy heavy military weaponry, warning the only way to secure peace with Russia is by defeating it on the battlefield.

OTTAWA — Canada's chief public health officer warned Friday that a COVID-19 resurgence is likely underway and encouraged Canadians to be vigilant to help curb the spread of the latest variant. Dr.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Iqaluit is getting $214 million from the federal government to fix its water infrastructure after the Nunavut capital’s water was contaminated with fuel twice in the last six months.

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals are being asked to muscle space in next week's budget to help Canada become more productive, and lay investments to lure new companies as part of a push to simplify pandemic-strained supply chains.

OTTAWA — Standing before a room of nearly 200 Indigenous delegates at the Vatican, Pope Francis apologized Friday for the Roman Catholic Church's role in residential schools.

OTTAWA — The higher price of crude oil is to blame for surging prices at the pump, Canada's natural resources minister argued as he pushed back against Prairie premiers who had called on the Liberal government to suspend an increase in the federal ca

ROME — Chief Wilton Littlechild felt a swell of emotions and tears in his eyes as he heard Pope Francis apologize at the Vatican on Friday for the Roman Catholic Church's role in residential schools. The words came on the chief's 78th birthday.

First Nations, Inuit and Métis residential school survivors, knowledge keepers, elders, and youth have wrapped up meetings with Pope Francis at the Vatican with a historic apology.

ROME — Phil Fontaine says he had hoped a long-sought apology would finally come this week when an Indigenous delegation met with Pope Francis at the Vatican.