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Premier Danielle Smith has announced a raft of changes affecting transgender Albertans, including requiring parental consent for students 15 and under who want to change their names or pronouns at school.

TORONTO — Canada's largest school board approved on Wednesday a revision to its school calendar so students can stay home on the day a rare solar eclipse will chart a course through parts of Canada.

PEMBERTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA — Dusty McKinnon says driving through floodwaters in Pemberton, B.C., reminded him of fording rivers in Costa Rica, as water surged over the hood of his truck.

OTTAWA — The federal government is spending another $362 million to help provinces and cities find housing for asylum seekers — but Ontario says it's nowhere near enough.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has posted a video to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, announcing several new policies and guidelines dealing with gender and sexuality.

OTTAWA — With just months to go before patients can start making appointments, dentists, hygienists and other dental-care providers are still waiting for crucial details about how the federal government's new dental-care plan will work and how much t

MONTREAL — The Transportation Safety Board of Canada has concluded that a lack of planning contributed to the October 2021 capsizing of a rescue boat that killed a Montreal firefighter.

EDMONTON — Investigators probing a plane crash that killed six people in the Northwest Territories have recovered the cockpit voice recorder and talked to the lone survivor.

OTTAWA — The Conservative Party of Canada raised more than $35 million during Pierre Poilievre's first full year as leader — and the federal Liberals brought in less than half that amount.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's Mental Health and Addictions Minister Jennifer Whiteside says ending the province's three-year drug decriminalization project won't save "a single life," as the experiment comes under political pressure and the overdose