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QUEBEC — A new bill tabled Wednesday in Quebec would allow "any word" to be uttered in university classrooms as long as it's used in an academic context, the province's higher education minister said.

OTTAWA — Federal bureaucrats are warning that more cost overruns and delays are on the horizon for the delivery of new ships to Canada’s navy and coast guard, as “significant challenges” batter Ottawa’s multibillion-dollar shipbuilding program.

OTTAWA — Former Conservative deputy leader Leona Alleslev has officially entered the party's leadership race.

OTTAWA — A second man has been charged with trying to set fire to a downtown Ottawa apartment building in early February.

TORONTO — Government messaging about the state of the COVID-19 pandemic may stymie uptake of fourth vaccine doses, some experts said, as provinces laid out plans to expand eligibility for the shots to millions more Canadians.

OTTAWA — After two years of pandemic-induced uncertainty, the federal Liberals are getting ready to deliver an updated spending blueprint in a 2022 budget that, by all accounts, has been influenced by fast-changing circumstances.

MONTREAL — Newly released recordings of phone calls to a Quebec government health line from March 2020 reveal how desperate the owners of a long-term care home were as COVID-19 struck their establishment during the pandemic's first wave.

OTTAWA — The final message to Scotiabank shareholders from its president and CEO's annual address: a higher tax on the country’s biggest banks is a tax on you.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut is to lift all its remaining COVID-19 health measures when it ends its public health emergency on Monday.

OTTAWA — It's one of those promises that doesn't cost the government too much, but never seems to materialize on budget day.