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OTTAWA — Scott Aitchison, the former mayor of Hunstville, Ont., is running for federal Conservative party leader.

OTTAWA — Scott Aitchison started knocking on doors at a young age.

VANCOUVER — The family of a man who died in custody last week after Vancouver police used a beanbag shotgun is calling for a public inquest and systemic changes in how the department treats people on the Downtown Eastside.

EDMONTON — Alberta’s lieutenant-governor says it's not a done deal that she would automatically sign off on a proposal from a United Conservative Party leadership candidate to pass a bill aimed at ignoring federal laws and court rulings.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut says it has confirmed the first case of avian influenza in the territory. The case was discovered by the Canadian Wildlife Service in a live thick-billed murre on Coats Island in mid-July.

MONTREAL — The Coalition Avenir Québec has decided to play the short game when it comes to election health-care promises, insisting it's important to make commitments it can keep.

OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre is waging one of his final battles in the Conservative leadership race — one in which even his main rival is onside. His latest target? The jargon used by the federal bureaucracy.

Whitehorse residents are being asked to limit their water use while crews work on repairing a damaged sewer main near the Yukon River.

WINNIPEG — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused some politicians Thursday of being dishonest about the effects of the federal government's carbon tax.

OTTAWA — Police forces need to take seriously a pattern of hate and harassment targeting journalists and other public figures, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday.