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Ottawa has quietly missed its own deadline for finalizing an agreement with a Quebec shipyard so it can start work on replacing the Canadian Coast Guard's aging icebreaker fleet.

ROUYN-NORANDA, Que. — The Quebec government will provide $88.3 million to support the city of Rouyn-Noranda in the creation of a new neighbourhood and the relocation of nearly 200 families living in an area contaminated by smelter pollution.

MONTREAL — A U.S. woman who was kidnapped along with her husband and smuggled into Quebec in October 2020 says she lives in constant fear she will fall victim to another crime.

OTTAWA — Some federal government workers will be able to continue remote work for another year, as most face a March 31 deadline to return to the office at least two days a week.

OTTAWA — A prospective foreign influence registry must not be "overly broad" to avoid unfairly targeting members of the Chinese-Canadian community and other minority groups,a senator said Thursday.

AMQUI, Que. — Quebec Premier François Legault promised to boost mental health services in the province as he visited the town where two people were killed Monday and nine injured when a pickup truck crashed into pedestrians.

SAINT-JOSEPH-DE-BEAUCE, Que. — A head-on collision between a minivan and a heavy truck in Quebec's Chaudière-Appalaches region has left two children and their father dead.

OTTAWA — Former governor general David Johnston is the "eminent Canadian," as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau put it, who will oversee investigations into foreign interference in Canadian elections.

OTTAWA — New Democrats are calling on the federal government to follow through with its promise to make a tax credit for caregivers a refundable benefit.

In 2002, Yang Baoying flew from China to Vancouver to identify her daughter Amanda Zhao’s body. The 21-year-old English student’s remains had been found stuffed in a suitcase in Mission, B.C.