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OTTAWA — Dental benefits for Indigenous people should be improved if the new national dental insurance plan offers better or more accessible services, NDP health critic Don Davies said Wednesday.

CALGARY — WestJet Airlines is asking the federal government to allow airlines to recover passenger compensation costs from other aviation industry partners, if it believes those partners played a role in causing flight delays or disruptions.

WINNIPEG — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is encouraging provinces and territories to step up reconciliation efforts with Indigenous Peoples but stopped short of saying they should make the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation a statutory holiday

OTTAWA — The Opposition Conservatives are asking Twitter to apply a "government-funded" label on accounts associated with the CBC, even as other broadcasters decry the tag for not making clear their editorial independence.

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

Recipients play the waiting game as 2 per cent of 13 million GST/HST credit and Ontario trillium benefit payments were not issued on the scheduled dates the first week of April

Roads in the area of Pine Valley and Teston are closed as emergency crews battle the blaze

OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada held its key interest rate steady and telegraphed that it may need to keep rates higher for longer as the effects of tighter borrowing conditions continue to ripple through the economy.

OTTAWA — A new poll suggests most Canadians feel they're less safe now than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic, and most think the provincial and federal governments are doing a poor job of addressing crime and public safety.

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