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The Alberta government says it will give “financial supports” to oilsands companies to encourage them to raise their production and fill a proposed pipeline that would carry a million barrels of oil per day to the Pacific Coast. The revelation is part of a new set of disclosures released by the federal government on its…

A year of separation talk hasn’t stood in the way of Alberta making big job gains, creating nearly eight in 10 new positions across the nation, according to new data from Statistics Canada. Alberta added some 78,500 of 99,000 new jobs created nationwide over the past 12 months, the national statistics office said in its…

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney missed a huge opportunity in Saudi Arabia last week to advocate for human rights, said the son of a Saudi dissident unable to leave the country to join his family in Canada. Carney would not reveal if he raised the case of Raif Badawi in his meetings, adding that…

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s deputy chief of staff Braeden Caley announced his resignation on Sunday evening, saying he would seek the Liberal nomination for a seat in British Columbia. The only vacant seat in B.C. currently is for North Vancouver–Capilano, previously held by former Liberal minister Jonathan Wilkinson, who resigned after he was…

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he will change provincial regulations if needed after learning that an immigrant living illegally in Canada for decades has been ruled eligible for social assistance benefits from Ontario. Ford’s comments came in the form of a social media post on a case reported by National Post involving a man who…

A bull bison at Yellowstone National Park hooked a fleeing grandfather and threw him roughly eight feet (about 2.5 metres) in the air as his grandson escaped. The New York Times and the New York Post identified the man as Carl Isom-McDaniel, a grandfather from Whatcom County, Washington, who broke multiple bones. The attack happened…

Israel’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday spotlighted a report describing a pandemic of antisemitic behavior by Australian healthcare workers against Jewish patients. It called the investigation by The Australian a “deeply troubling picture and should serve as a wake-up call.” “We call upon The Australian government to confront antisemitism forcefully,” Israel’s Foreign Ministry posted to social…

The U.S. will be “taking over” the Strait of Hormuz, President Donald Trump told Fox News on Monday. “We’re taking over the strait. They [the leaders of the Iranian regime] have nothing,” Trump said in a phone interview. “Yesterday, they had an 11-hour meeting. Everything’s 11 hours with these guys,” the president continued. “Everything was…

Prime Minister Mark Carney has defended the deal between Canada and the United States to open the Gordie Howe International Bridge, which connects Windsor, Ont., with Detroit, Michigan. “I’m happy the bridge is going to be open. We need it. We need it because we’re expanding,” Carney said in an interview with CTV at the…

Many Canadians aren’t just living paycheque to paycheque anymore — they’ve already spent some or most of their pay before it even arrives, says a survey out today. The MNP quarterly barometer of Canadians’ household finances found that three in five respondents said at least half of their income is already committed to bills, debt…