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OTTAWA — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the 2022 federal budget on Thursday. Here are some of the highlights: — $452.3 billion in new spending on projected revenue of $408.4 billion for a deficit of $52.8 billion.

OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government responded Thursday to months of pressure from the NATO military alliance and others by promising more than $8 billion in new military spending over the next five years.

OTTAWA — The Trudeau Liberals are promising to create two new arm’s-length bodies to handle billions in federal funds to prod businesses to invest in themselves.

OTTAWA — The RCMP is collecting evidence of alleged war crimes in Ukraine from people fleeing to Canada following Russia's invasion of their country.

Federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault has warned Canada's biggest oilsands producer that its planned mine expansion may not meet climate targets. In a letter released Wednesday to Mark Little, the head of Suncor Energy Inc.

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland tabled the 2022 federal budget on Thursday. Here are some of the smaller promises that you might have missed: — $1.

OTTAWA — The Liberals and New Democrats published a confidence and supply agreement last month in an effort to keep the minority Parliament working until the next fixed election in 2025.

HALIFAX — Two officers who fired rounds into the torso of a mass shooter at a Nova Scotia gas station say they started shooting as the killer raised what one believed to be an RCMP general duty pistol.

VANCOUVER — Efforts to provide COVID-19 vaccines to as many drug users as possible in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside have paid off, prompting an advocate to urge communities with similar, vulnerable populations across the country to learn lessons from

Provinces and territories are expanding eligibility for fourth doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to millions more Canadians.