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OTTAWA — The federal government recorded a budgetary deficit of $25.7 billion as of the end of January for the current fiscal year.

BRUSSELS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday he “regrets” the Senate’s vote to reject legislation to ratify a trade deal between the European Union and Canada that has been criticized by farmers as bringing unfair competition from abr

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump is returning to the stock market. Shareholders of Digital World Acquisition Corp., a publicly traded shell company, approved a deal to merge with the former president’s media business in a Friday vote.

TORONTO — Stellantis has recalled more than 10,000 Dodge and Chrysler sedans in Canada due to defective airbags.

LONDON (AP) — Two men were arrested Friday in connection with a gas station explosion in 2022 that killed 10 people and tore apart the heart of a village in northwestern Ireland, police said.

OAKVILLE, Ont. — A U.S. investor is seeking to replace three directors on the board of Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp., saying new leadership is needed as the company looks to sell its renewable power business and find a new permanent CEO.

In 2021, Carleigh Bodrug posted a video online of herself using leftover orange peels, sugar and water to make candy that — in her words — "literally tastes like gummy worms.

A retreat in new car purchases helped push the country's retail sales down 0.3 per cent to $67 billion in January, Statistics Canada said Friday.

MONTREAL — Federal loans to Transat A.T. Inc. cost the tour operator's CEO nearly half a million dollars in compensation last year, thanks to conditions on the pandemic funding.

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