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EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he has been interviewed by RCMP as part of an investigation into potential criminal identity fraud in the 2017 United Conservative Party leadership contest.

Members of Canada's media industry are remembering a prominent lawyer for his dedication to journalism and storytelling. Stuart Robertson, a Toronto-based lawyer specializing in media law, died Sunday. He was 74.

OTTAWA — Randy Hillier, an independent member of Ontario's legislature, has been released with several conditions after he surrendered to Ottawa police Monday.

Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been charged in Quebec with sexual assault and forcible confinement.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — Nunavut's integrity commissioner has found a cabinet minister breached his duty to remain objective and impartial when he approved his spouse as an acting deputy minister.

MONTREAL — Quebec has already entered a sixth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic driven by the BA.2 subvariant, two experts said Monday, although it's unclear how severe it will be and whether the rest of the country will follow.

OTTAWA — Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault will show Canadians this week how many greenhouse gas emissions every polluting sector in the country will have to cut if Canada is to hit its latest climate target by the end of the decade.

MONTREAL — Quebec's police watchdog is investigating after a 36-year-old man was murdered at a factory in Lac-Megantic, Que., about 250 kilometres east of Montreal.

OTTAWA — Canada’s decade-long search for a new fighter jet to replace its aging CF-18s came full circle on Monday as the Liberal government announced negotiations with U.S. defence giant Lockheed Martin to purchase the F-35.

HALIFAX — The first three RCMP officers who responded to the 2020 Nova Scotia mass shooting testified Monday they were initially doubtful the killer was in a marked RCMP vehicle, even though a dispatcher relayed that information from two 911 calls.