OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.6 per cent in February, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets):
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OTTAWA - Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.6 per cent in February, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuated widely because they are based on small statistical samples (previous month in brackets):
OTTAWA - The annual rate of inflation accelerated sharply to 2.6 per cent in February as the federal governmentsa国际传媒 temporary tax break came to an end mid-month, Statistics Canada said Tuesday.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) 鈥 Kenya is hosting the Dutch king and queen as allegations of human rights abuses are mounting in the East African country, with Kenyans writing hundreds of emails and petitioning the royals to cancel their visit.
TERREBONNE, Que. - The Parti Qu茅b茅cois recaptured a longtime stronghold northeast of Montreal, winning the riding of Terrebonne in a byelection Monday.
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FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Liberal party is scheduled to table its first budget today since winning the October election.
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney will be in Iqaluit today in a bid to reassert Canadasa国际传媒 sovereignty in the Arctic.
OTTAWA - A Liberal member of Parliament is set to join a United States senator at the Canada-U.S. border today for a discussion on how to navigate the trade war between the two nations.
PARIS (AP) 鈥 An unprecedented exhibition at the Pompidou Center in Paris explores the presence and influence of Black artists in the city from the 1950s to 2000, offering a vibrant immersion in France's cosmopolitan capital and a history of anti-colonial, civil rights struggles.
LONDON - Prime Minister Mark Carney says United States President Donald Trump will have to stop his "disrespectful" comments about Canada before the two countries can have comprehensive bilateral conversations about trade and security.
MONTREAL - Rain and record warm weather sent several southern Quebec rivers spilling over their banks on Monday, forcing residents from their homes and leading officials to close roads and cancel classes.
LONDON (AP) 鈥 King Charles III is scheduled to have an audience with Pope Francis during a state visit next month to the Vatican, suggesting the Holy See is optimistic the pontiff will be back at work by then, barring any setbacks in his recovery from double pneumonia.
VANCOUVER - Former student Robert Murray says he has a good excuse for returning a book to the University of sa国际传媒 Library 64 years late 鈥 the 83-year-old reckons it might have saved his and his son's life.
WINNIPEG - A second set of remains found in a Winnipeg-area landfill have been identified as belonging to a slain First Nations woman who was murdered in 2022 by a convicted serial killer.聽
LOS ANGELES (AP) 鈥 As a wounded Democratic Party struggles to regroup, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is holding mostly chummy conversations with prominent conservatives on a new podcast he's touting as a way for the party to grapple with the MAGA movement's popularity.
VANCOUVER - Immigration lawyers say the case of a Vancouver woman detained in the United States over a denied visa is a warning to other Canadians that it's no longer business as usual when crossing the border for work.
The sa国际传媒 Court of Appeal has denied a father's bid to prevent his children getting vaccinated against the human papillomavirus.聽
Empty shelves and idle escalators greeted shoppers Monday as they poked through Hudsonsa国际传媒 Bay stores looking for bargains and perhaps a piece of history.
Manitoba RCMP confirmed Monday that a second set of remains found at a landfill north of Winnipeg have been identified as belonging to Marcedes Myran, one of two slain First Nations women who search teams have been looking for at the site since December.
OTTAWA - A Federal Court judge on Monday dismissed a motion to certify a proposed class action lawsuit that was launched by Black public servants in 2020 who alleged there was systemic racism within the public service.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) 鈥 A New Mexico court granted a temporary restraining order Monday against the release of certain records related to the investigation into the recent deaths of actor Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arakawa.
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney's first move after taking office on Friday was to eliminate the consumer carbon price, undoing Justin Trudeau's signature climate policy.
NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 The band Semisonic is pushing back at the White House for using their hit song 鈥淐losing Time鈥 over a social media post that shows a shackled deportee.
WASHINGTON (AP) 鈥 President Donald Trump on Monday visited the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, where he took a tour and chaired a meeting of its board of directors.
A mass stabbing at a University of Waterloo gender studies class was not a terrorist attack but a 鈥減articularly grave鈥 hate crime meant to make people feel unsafe in those spaces, an Ontario judge ruled Monday in sentencing the attacker to 11 years in prison.
L'ORIGNAL, Ont. - A Conservative government would repeal the entire carbon price law for consumers and big industry, Leader Pierre Poilievre said Monday on a visit to a steel mill in Eastern Ontario.
OTTAWA - Former prime minister Brian Mulroney will be featured on a stamp as part of Canada Post's 2025 lineup.
DUBLIN (AP) 鈥 Hundreds of thousands of people packed the streets of Dublin on Monday to watch Ireland's national St. Patrick's Day parade, as crowds in green flooded cities and towns across the country to honor the country's patron saint.
Prosecutors say Minnesota man accused of hiding stolen ruby slippers from 'The Wizard of Oz' is dead
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) 鈥 A federal judge dismissed the charges Monday against a Minnesota man accused of hiding a stolen pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in the 1939 musical 鈥淭he Wizard of Oz鈥 after prosecutors informed the court that he died on Sunday.
RICHMOND, sa国际传媒 - The union representing workers at the Radisson Blu Vancouver Airport Hotel says staff have ratified a new collective agreement, ending a nearly four-year-long strike.
MONTREAL - Mayors of Quebec aluminum towns say they are confident their regions can withstand the 25 per cent tariffs imposed on the metal by U.S. President Donald Trump, with many saying it's business as usual.
脡milie Dequenne, the Belgian actor who won a top Cannes Film Festival prize for her breakout role in 鈥淩osetta,鈥 has died, a news report says. She was 43.
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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney's move Friday to end the consumer carbon price has done little to put the long-standing political battle to rest.
MONTREAL - A Quebec-born businessman and philanthropist who is donating $50 million to a Montreal university to establish an institute dedicated to "disruptive innovation" says it has never been more important to invest in homegrown talent.聽
SURREY, sa国际传媒 - Canadians in several cities, including Ottawa and Vancouver have joined a wave of "Tesla Takedown" protests to denounce CEO Elon Musk and his role advising U.S. President Donald Trump.
OTTAWA - Mark Carney departed for his first foreign trip on Sunday, set to visit France and the U.K., with an additional stop in Iqaluit, Nvt., during a whirlwind three-day jaunt.
MONTREAL - The streets of downtown Montreal turned green like clockwork on Sunday as its annual St. Patrick's Day parade celebrated its 200th anniversary with the country's new prime minister present.
OTTAWA - Canada's ambassador to the U.S. says Prime Minister Mark Carney is looking to set up a conversation with President Donald Trump "as soon as possible."
Five new movies opened wide in North American theaters this weekend including a starry spy picture from Steven Soderbergh, an A24 thriller, a Looney Tunes movie and a high concept action-comedy with 鈥淭he Boys鈥 star Jack Quaid. But the myriad options did not result in box office gold. When fi…
WINDSOR, Ont. - Ian Smith used to spend most of his days behind a desk in the RCMP's Windsor, Ont., detachment, working on investigations and performing administrative duties. As a member of the force's border integrity unit, the constable says he didn't even have to wear his uniform.聽
MONTREAL - Classes on disease and anatomy are par for the course in traditional medical training, but a new program at a Quebec university is making visits to the art museum a mandatory part of the curriculum for physicians in training.聽
SRINAGAR, India (AP) 鈥 Farooq Ahmad Shaksaaz presses a button on his 1970 Sharp cassette player, and with a hefty clack the machine whirrs to life. As the Kashmiri tailor stitches, the machine crackles for a moment before Ghulam Ahmad Sofi's otherworldly voice fills his shop with verses abou…
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) 鈥 An examination of the dog found dead along with actor Gene Hackman and his wife in their Santa Fe home shows dehydration and starvation were likely what led to the animalsa国际传媒 demise.
VANCOUVER - A Canadian woman detained for nearly two weeks by immigration officials in the United States is back on home soil, her mother confirmed.
ATLANTA (AP) 鈥 Maggie Baird, mother of chart-topping musicians Billie Eilish and Finneas, received the Superhero for Earth award Saturday from the Captain Planet Foundation at a gala event.
OTTAWA - Mark Carney will make his first foray on the world stage as Canadasa国际传媒 24th prime minister on a trip to France and the U.K. in coming days.
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has asked for a review of Canadasa国际传媒 plan to purchase a fleet of F-35 fighter jets.
HALIFAX - After placing a framed photo of U.S. President Donald Trump on a table, Matthew Burke steps back and takes a mighty swing with a baseball bat. Glass shatters as the frame explodes. The obliterated image vanishes.
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