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QUEBEC — Gov. Gen. Mary Simon, the first Indigenous person named as the Queen's representative in Canada, still has some work to do on her French, Quebec Premier François Legault said Thursday.

OTTAWA — Transport Minister Omar Alghabra says Canadian airlines are standing by to help bring charter flights of Ukrainian refugees to Canada as soon as some logistical hurdles are overcome.

TORONTO — The organization that runs Toronto's Pearson International Airport is "urgently" calling on the federal government to help alleviate major delays affecting passengers at security and clearance points amid a shortage of staff.

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OTTAWA — Canada's financial intelligence agency is warning that unregistered money-transfer services are ripe for abuse by criminals trying to launder cash and fund terrorist activities.

VANCOUVER — Jenn Dawkins remembers the spring day in 2016 when she joined four other female firefighters at British Columbia's legislature to lobby for the inclusion of breast cancer as a presumed occupational illness covered by the province's health

SIOUX LOOKOUT, Ont. — British Columbia's anti-gang unit says it's looking into why an international fugitive was on board a plane that crashed in northwestern Ontario and what his relationship was with the other passengers. Sgt.

OTTAWA — A House of Commons committee says the federal government needs to tell Canadians if it’s collecting data about their movements, and allow them to opt out of that collection.

Montreal's ombudswoman described homelessness experienced by Indigenous people in the city as a "humanitarian crisis" in a report released Wednesday.

The record-breaking heat wave that scorched western North America last June was among the most extreme ever recorded globally, new modelling and analysis by researchers at universities in the United Kingdom shows.