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QUEBEC — For more than four years, Quebec's governing Coalition Avenir Québec enjoyed a political honeymoon that lasted through the COVID-19 pandemic and helped the party get re-elected in 2022 with 90 of the province's 125 ridings.

The Liberal government's renewed focus on housing comes as it tries to regain favour with Canadians on affordability issues.

The Governor General says the year 2023 presented challenges brought on by climate change and global conflict. But she says Canada also took "important strides in reconciliation" and marked new chapters in history. 

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"All resorts in B.C. are very reliant on the Christmas holidays as a significant portion of their financial picture for the season," says James Shalman, general manager at Apex Mountain Resort.

The national climate adaptation strategy, released in June, outlines and puts timelines on Ottawa's goals to reduce wildfires, extreme heat, flooding, and a host of other impacts linked to global heating.

MONTREAL — A union representing 40 per cent of Quebec teachers has reached a deal in principle with the government and is ending a strike that has shut around 800 schools since Nov. 23.

VANCOUVER — Police say a 35-year-old man has been arrested after being found riding the SkyTrain in Vancouver on Christmas Day with a rack of 34 allegedly stolen winter coats.

An Edmonton man who died with his wife and eight-year-old son after their utility terrain vehicle went into a lake wasn't the kind of person to put his family at risk, says a friend.

It was cold and windy in the area, about 300 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife, which hampered an immediate rescue.