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MONTREAL — Quebec's Environment Department has released a list of eight companies that have the right to exceed provincial norms when it comes to water or air emissions.

OTTAWA — Canada's chief justice is welcoming the appointment of the first Indigenous member of the Supreme Court of Canada.

MONTREAL — Quebec provincial police say they have found a lithograph by the late internationally renowned Quebec painter Jean Paul Riopelle that was stolen more than 15 years ago.

MONTREAL — United States prosecutors say they are seeking formal authorization to offer a plea deal to the Montreal-area woman accused of mailing poison to former president Donald Trump.

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MONTREAL — François Legault’s win in the 2018 provincial election marked the start of a new era in Quebec politics, after nearly 50 years of federalist-versus-separatist two-party rule.

VANCOUVER — Activists who launched a plan in Canada to elect an unofficial "Hong Kong parliament" say they are pushing ahead with the project, despite being put under investigation for subversion by authorities in the Chinese territory.

OTTAWA — Canada has sanctioned a Russian woman whom the foreign affairs minister's office alleges is the architect of a scheme to abduct thousands of Ukrainian children and facilitate their adoption into Russian homes.

OTTAWA — The Canada-Germany hydrogen pact sends a positive signal about the future of the industry, but its short timeline seems "difficult" given how long it is taking to get smaller projects running within Canada, a transit advocacy groups warns.

OTTAWA — Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says former U.S. President Donald Trump used "bully" tactics during negotiations on a new North American free-trade agreement more than two years ago.