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TORONTO — Ontario NDP Leader Marit Stiles promised Wednesday to end homeless encampments, calling them Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford's "greatest failure.

REGINA — Police have arrested a man accused of pointing a gun at people on a First Nation in southern Saskatchewan a few hours after four people were found dead in a home on another reserve.

OTTAWA — Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney says he would reach Canada's NATO defence spending target by the end of the decade — two years ahead of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's schedule.

OTTAWA — International students who graduated from Canadian schools are more likely to be underemployed than their Canadian peers and many are living with lower incomes as a result.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will host a Canada-U.S. economic summit in Toronto on Friday, days after President Donald Trump said he would hold off on his threatened tariffs against Canada for a month.

OTTAWA — Statistics Canada says the country's merchandise trade surplus with the world was $708 million in December.

OTTAWA — As U.S.

WASHINGTON — Key cabinet ministers returned to Washington Tuesday to keep pressing Canada's economic case as a month-long pause on Donald Trump's tariff threat has done little to ease Canada's concerns.

OTTAWA — Pierre Poilievre says a Conservative government would bring in mandatory life sentences for those convicted of trafficking, production and distribution of over 40 mg of fentanyl.

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