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EDMONTON — Canada's oil province may finally be shedding its image as an economic one-trick pony, the Alberta government says in its new budget.

OTTAWA — Shock and horror turned to anger on Thursday as Canada and its allies responded to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with a barrage of new sanctions targeting the Russian economy and its leaders that they hoped would avert an all-out war.

OTTAWA — As the world watched war arrive in Ukraine, Andrii Bukvych was hearing first-hand accounts from family and loved ones in Kyiv.

EDMONTON — Alberta’s budget is out of the red, forecasts a rosy economic future and promises big-bucks spending on hospitals, health care and programs to plug gaps in its burgeoning labour force.

MONTREAL — Yellow and blue flags flew in cities across Canada on Thursday as Ukrainian Canadians organized demonstrations to denounce Russia's attack on Ukraine and urged Ottawa to act swiftly to defend their homeland.

EDMONTON — Finance Minister Travis Toews tabled Alberta's 2022 budget on Thursday and for the first time in years the province is out of the red.

OTTAWA — Justice Michael Moldaver plans to step down from the Supreme Court of Canada on Sept. 1, a few months before he reaches the mandatory retirement age of 75.

WASHINGTON — With the United States and Canada each taking stock of their supply-chain woes and marking one year since their heralded bilateral "road map," a group of House Republicans is raising concerns about whether the two countries should be wor

EDMONTON — Police in Edmonton say officers shot and killed a robbery suspect Wednesday night, and a man in a nearby apartment building was also hit by gunfire.

OTTAWA — Canada has toughened sanctions against Russia following Moscow's attack on neighbouring Ukraine.