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OTTAWA — If Pierre Poilievre wants to "defund the CBC" while maintaining its French-language programming, he'll have to overhaul the country's broadcasting law in order to do it.

VANCOUVER — British Columbia Emergency Health Services has released grim statistics on the toxic drug crisis ahead of the seventh anniversary of the province declaring a public health emergency

The More Beds, Better Care Act doesn't provide more beds, nor offer better care, but it does violate seniors' rights, they argue

WASHINGTON (AP) — The suspect was relatively easy to find.

HALIFAX — At the heart of the multi-volume report into Canada's worst mass shooting lies a recommendation calling for governments to replace 19th-century principles about law enforcement with a revised notion of what police are for.

OTTAWA — The United Nations may soon start questioning Canada's definition of "quick" now that the government has given itself three more years to deliver a 200-soldier peacekeeping force.

While a Toronto councillor, Doug Ford reportedly pushed for Michael Kraljevic to head up a city land-management corporation, causing a stir

This week's podcast: A Barrie grandmother who was duped by an Internet romance scam — and then wrote a book to warn others — is now languishing in a Hong Kong prison after being tricked again

VANCOUVER — Federal Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says Chinese community members in Vancouver have told him of "intimidation, harassment and abuse" linked to foreign governments or their proxies

VANCOUVER — Canada's federal health minister says he's working with provinces to prevent the mass exportation of essential medications after thousands of doses of the diabetes and weight-loss drug Ozempic were shipped from British Columbia to the United States