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FORT SIMPSON, N.W.T. — A former priest is beginning a two-year sentence after pleading guilty to indecent assault on a child in the 1980s.

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said Tuesday the government's fall economic statement will focus on housing and affordability within a fiscally responsible framework. "That is a challenging balance to strike.

Experts say the province has yet to escape the repercussions of hot, dry weather in spring, summer and fall.

MONTREAL — The ground search to find two missing Quebec girls who were later discovered killed by their father came "too little, too late," a Quebec coroner has concluded.

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Five high school students and one adult were transported to several hospitals after a collision involving a school bus in central Alberta.

OTTAWA — The leaders of two prominent Canadian Jewish groups are questioning the approach police and Crown prosecutors are using when it comes to protests that have been condemned for targeting a Jewish business in Toronto and an antisemitism confere

OTTAWA — The Liberal government is moving ahead with efforts to keep assault-style firearms out of the hands of Canadians, Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said Monday.

OTTAWA — First Nations chiefs and advocates are hopeful the Federal Court will approve a landmark child-welfare settlement this week, years after the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal called the federal government's treatment of First Nations child welf

MONTREAL — As Quebec police investigated the suicide of a man with prior arrests for domestic violence, authorities didn't immediately think to check on his wife and two children who were later found dead, a coroner's inquiry heard Monday.