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The president of the company involved in the Mount Polley environmental disaster that poured millions of cubic metres of mine tailings into B.C. waterways 10 years ago says the material spilled wasn't toxic. Imperial Metals Corp.

OTTAWA — Refugee advocacy groups are asking the federal immigration minister to make an exemption in the Safe Third Country Agreement for transgender refugee claimants in the United States to seek asylum in Canada.

OTTAWA — Federal Housing Minister Nate Erskine-Smith is calling on the Ontario government to do more to address social housing needs in the province.

OTTAWA — Canada appears to be leaning toward hitting the United States with matching tariffs if President Donald Trump makes good on his threats, but not all of the country's premiers support that approach.

OTTAWA — They were the eyes and ears of Canadian soldiers on the ground in the Afghanistan war, but a decade on many are still hitting a wall of bureaucracy as they try to access the kind of health benefits available to soldiers.

Southern mountain caribou are disappearing in British Columbia and the federal government has been dragging its feet for more than a decade on protecting the endangered herds, conservation groups say in a letter to the environment minister.

MONTREAL — Despite assurances, Montreal police have made no new arrests in the two months since a November anti-NATO protest in the city's downtown turned violent. The Nov.

MONTREAL — A 44-year-old Haitian man found dead in 2023 after he had tried to cross into the United States made a final phone call to his wife before succumbing to hypothermia and drowning in shallow water, a coroner has found.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will fly to Poland next week for events marking 80 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

VANCOUVER — An American man recently found guilty of rioting at the U.S. Capitol four years ago remains in immigration custody in British Columbia, even after being given a presidential pardon for his actions.