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OTTAWA — Nearly 35,000 people are eligible to cast votes in next month's Green party leadership race.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick business leaders were presented with stark differences in political parties' economic plans Tuesday as they heard from three leaders ahead of next week's provincial election.

OTTAWA — An underused program to give hard-hit small businesses a break on their rent is getting one more month of service, but without any of the changes critics say are needed to prevent stores from permanently closing their doors.

OTTAWA — Canadians appear to still have solid faith in doctors and scientists nearly six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, but opinions of educators have not fared so well.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Erin O'Toole unveiled Tuesday the list of who will sit on the Opposition front benches, ahead of the party's first caucus meeting since he won the leadership race last month.

OTTAWA — Canada's chief public health officer says she won't get ahead of an independent review of the early-warning unit in her agency that's meant to flag potential pandemics. Dr.

MONTREAL — A Quebec judge who refused to allow a Muslim woman to appear in court wearing a hijab apologized on Tuesday, more than five years after the incident occurred.

Plans are being made across the country for how to safely send students back to school in the fall as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Here is a look at what the various provinces have said about getting kids back to classes.

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SAINT JOHN, N.B. — New Brunswick's two major political parties have each dropped a candidate in the provincial election after social media post about the LGBT community surfaced.