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SURREY, B.C. — New Democrat Leader David Eby says he will help more middle-class, first-time buyers into the housing market in British Columbia with a plan to finance 40 per cent of the price.

OTTAWA — Canada's foreign ministry expressed alarm about its shrinking ability to counter foreign disinformation online due to limited access to data and the evolving tactics of adversaries, a newly released memo shows.

OTTAWA — Francis Fox, a former senator and cabinet minister in Pierre Elliott Trudeau's government, has died at 84.

MONTREAL — Montreal's administration announced on Wednesday it is going to immediately modify a borough's noise bylaw to protect entertainment venues and bars from noise complaints, after a court this week ordered a historic music hall in the city's

OTTAWA — The minority Liberal government survived a non-confidence vote in the House of Commons on Wednesday, but if the prime minister wants to avoid an election before Christmas the Bloc Québécois said he will have to meet its demands by the end of

OTTAWA — At least two Canadians have died in the escalating violence in Lebanon, leading some members of Parliament to call for a government evacuation of Canadian citizens from the country.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named a civil engineer who grew up in Haiti as the next senator from Quebec. Suze Youance will sit as an independent in the upper chamber.

A new rapid analysis says climate change made August heat waves over some of Canada's most northern – and rapidly warming – regions at least 10 times more likely. Environment and Climate Change Canada says the heat waves in Inuvik, N.W.T.

A woman accusing Jacob Hoggard of sexual assault in northern Ontario told his trial the musician raped, hit and choked her before urinating on her in a hotel room after she attended his band's concert and an after-party eight years ago.

MONTREAL — A high-ranking Montreal police officer says racism is a "cancer eating away at the organization” in a resignation letter marking the end of his 30-year career with the force. Cmdr.