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MONTREAL — Quebec’s secularism law is an affront to the dignity and values of the province’s anglophone community, a lawyer representing the province's largest English-language school board told a Court of Appeal hearing Wednesday.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievresaid Wednesday he stands by his support of last winter's "Freedom Convoy.

MONTREAL — A Quebec coroner has concluded the 2018 death of a teenager shot by provincial police could have been avoided if health-care workers had communicated better and followed up with the teen regarding his mental health issues.

EDMONTON — Alberta’s Opposition leader says Premier Danielle Smith consulting a medical adviser of former U.S. president Donald Trump on COVID-19 who calls vaccines “bioweapons” exacerbates worries she runs a government not guided by science. “(Dr.

WASHINGTON — Call it a November surprise. Democrats were basking in a midterm defeat that felt like a big win Wednesday after an electoral all-nighter that remained on track to buck the modern-day U.S.

LONDON — The Royal Canadian Air Force's 442 Squadron has been singled out for outstanding courage for a mass rescue of people trapped by landslides on a British Columbia highway last year.

VICTORIA — A highway that washed out in more than two dozen places has reopened to the public a year after a series of atmospheric rivers stalled over southern British Columbia.

OTTAWA — A representative for Democrats Abroad says concern over the right to abortion was a motivating factor for those living outside the United States to vote in the country's midterm elections Tuesday.

OTTAWA — By the time protesters blockaded the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ont., last winter, a separate protest was already fully entrenched in the downtown streets of Ottawa.

Quebec's decision to give most residents a second cash payment to help them deal with inflation isn't a reason for Ottawa to deny the province additional health-care funding, Finance Minister Eric Girard argued Wednesday.