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CALGARY — WestJet and its pilots union say they have reached a last-minute deal, averting a strike ahead of the May long weekend.

EDMONTON — Alberta’s two political contenders hammered each other on the issue of trust in the provincial election campaign's lone debate Thursday.

EDMONTON — Alberta's ethics commissioner says United Conservative Premier Danielle Smith undermined democracy and broke conflict-of-interest rules by intervening in a criminal case and pressuring her attorney general to "make it go away.

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. — A Saskatchewan police chief says he is retiring after a report found officers who responded to a domestic violence call didn’t check on the well-being of a toddler in the hours before the child was killed.

WASHINGTON — The Indigenous band in Wisconsin that's trying to shut down the Line 5 pipeline got a chilly reception Thursday from a federal court judge who is dismayed they aren't doing more to help Enbridge Inc. avoid an ecological disaster.

LANGLEY, B.C. — The latest illicit drug overdose numbers in British Columbia are "profoundly troubling," says Premier David Eby, lamenting the deaths of 206 more people in communities across the province last month.

A Canadian coal miner is facing legal action in an American court over levels of a contaminant from its mines in U.S. waters. Teck Coal Ltd.

Almost a year after its introduction, MPs have passed a gun-control bill that would cement restrictions on handguns, increase penalties for firearm trafficking and try to curb homemade ghost guns.

MONTREAL — Quebec Muslim groups are taking the provincial government to court over its recently enacted prayer room ban in public schools, arguing that the order is discriminatory and violates the Charter rights to freedom of religion and association

OTTAWA — Sgt. Eric Mueller's casket was placed gingerly before a crowd of thousands in Ottawa on Thursday, who gathered to pay tribute to the 10th police officer killed on the job in Canada in the last eight months.