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OTTAWA — The Liberals released their long-promised Africa strategy Thursday but without the funding and media blitz that accompanied their plan for Asia.

TORONTO — A historic deal that calls for three major tobacco companies to pay out billions in compensation to provinces and territories as well as former smokers across Canada has cleared its final legal hurdle in Ontario, bringing a decades-long cou

OTTAWA — U.S. President Donald Trump has imposed tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico — a 25 per cent across-the-board levy, with a lower 10 per cent charge on Canadian energy — triggering a continental trade war.

VICTORIA — The British Columbia Conservatives' attorney general critic has doubled down on her comments about residential schools, saying in a video that a group of party colleagues had directed the "most vociferous hatred" at her over her views.

EDMONTON — Mounties in Alberta have launched an investigation following a complaint regarding the province’s front-line medical care provider, Alberta Health Services.

British Columbia Premier David Eby says Canada should maintain retaliatory measures against the United States — such as possible tolls facing commercial trucks heading to Alaska — despite some tariffs being paused for a month.

MONTREAL — Amid the trade war between Canada and the United States, Montreal Mayor Valérie Plante and St. Catharine's, Ont.

OTTAWA — The federal cybersecurity centre says China, Russia and Iran are very likely to use tools enabled by artificial intelligence in attempts to meddle in the coming general election campaign.

VICTORIA — The British Columbia and federal governments have signed a four-year, $670-million pharmacare agreement, giving universal access to contraceptive and diabetes medications.

OTTAWA — The man U.S. President Donald Trump has picked to be the ambassador to Canada is a frank person who will stand up for his country, a colleague said at an event in Washington this week.