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BURNABY, B.C. — In a corner of a park in Metro Vancouver, the hunt for marital bliss is on.

OTTAWA — Russia's ambassador in Ottawa claims Canada is unsafe for his compatriots to visit. "Canada today is a very dangerous country for Russian citizens," Oleg Stepanov said in a Russian-language interview last Friday.

OTTAWA — Canada's premiers will formally accept an offer from the federal government for billions in additional health-care funding, but say they will also insist the money continue to flow for more than 10 years.

OTTAWA — Officials say the investigation is now ongoing after 12 people were injured in an apparent gas explosion that rocked an east Ottawa suburb on Monday morning, including two children and two people who were pulled out of the rubble.

OTTAWA — The final version of a new telecom policy directive first unveiled by the federal government in May of last year is now in force.

OTTAWA — The federal Conservatives joined the Bloc Québécois Monday to try and send a message to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that it is up to the provinces to decide how to use the notwithstanding clause.

QUEBEC — The mother of two Quebec girls killed by their father in July 2020 told the opening of a coroner's inquest Monday she still has no explanation for why Martin Carpentier committed such heinous crimes.

OTTAWA — All major parties in the House of Commons are signaling they will support a Liberal bill that would further delay the expansion of medically assisted dying to people whose sole condition is a mental disorder.

OTTAWA — Canadian Heritage has changed the way it vets funding requests for community and anti-racism projects after it cut ties with an organization that was accused of antisemitism.

Imperial Oil Ltd. has filed a plan for the interim cleanup of one of the largest oilpatch spills in Alberta history but hasn't released any details on the plan or the two toxic releases at its Kearl oilsands mine.