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A New Brunswick chamber is calling on the federal government to give small businesses more time to repay their COVID-19 loans. The Fredericton Chamber of Commerce has launched an online petition, whic...

There will be three more independent members coming to the Senate in Ottawa. The Prime Minister's office says Marnie McBean, Toni Varone and Paulette Senior will fill vacancies for Ontario. McBean is ...

The Trudeau government continues its efforts of a national pharmacare plan, announcing this week of the creation of the Canadian Drug Agency. It will be built from the existing Canadian Agency for Dru...

The majority of Canadians are optimistic about their personal lives heading into the New Year, according to a survey by Narrative Research. However, just over half feel pessimistic about the state of ...

Nestle Canada says one of its bars produced for Halloween may have contained plastic. The food and beverage company is recalling six batches of KitKat Halloween Scary Friends. They were sold in indivi...

Skating to where the puck is going, that is how federal Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault describes the mandate to have all new vehicle sales in Canada be zero emission by 2035. He says sales num...

The World Health Organization encourages people to keep up with their COVID-19 vaccines. It says they are seeing an increase in COVID and other respiratory infections such as influenza, RSV and childh...

Canada's population surged by over 430,000 in the third quarter, the highest quarterly growth since 1957, according to Statistics Canada's latest release. As of October 1, the national population surp...

Canada's inflation rate remained steady at 3.1 per cent in November, according to Statistics Canada. The agency says higher prices for travel tours helped put upward pressure on the Consumer Price Ind...

New research from The Salvation Army finds Canadians are struggling to meet their basic needs. The report finds one-in-four Canadians fear they do not have enough income to cover their basic needs. On...