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OTTAWA — It was March 2020, just before the first lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic, and Ottawa resident Stephanie Fortin had recently lost her full-time retail job.

TORONTO — When Gina Athanasiou's father died in 2016, she realized her mother, who bounced between Canada and Greece for most of her life, didn't have a pension large enough to cover the soaring costs of a Toronto home.

OTTAWA — Canadian incomes trended higher in 2020 everywhere except in Alberta and Newfoundland and Labrador, as millions benefited from pandemic supports, according to new census data from Statistics Canada.

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MONTREAL — Prominent Jewish group B’nai Brith Canada and a legal expert are questioning a Quebec judge’s claim that it is not a widely accepted fact that Nazi ideology led to the murder of Jews.

TORONTO — There was no winning ticket sold in Tuesday's Lotto Max $10 million draw. The jackpot for the next draw on July 15 will be an estimated $15 million. The Canadian Press

VICTORIA — Canada's premiers want the federal government to stop "quibbling" about its share of health-care funding and partner with them on a "generational opportunity" to modernize a failing system, they said Tuesday after two days of meetings.

OTTAWA — Voting for Jean Charest is the best way to stop Pierre Poilievre from becoming leader of the Conservative party, Patrick Brown's campaign told supporters Tuesday, after admitting their candidate's efforts to challenge his disqualification fr

OTTAWA — A new report from the Senate is calling on the federal government to implement Mi’kmaq, Wolastoqiyik and Peskotomuhkati rights-based fisheries on Canada's East Coast and overhaul its approach to negotiations.

More than a year since the federal government's expert task force recommended it create a safe supply of substances to reduce people's reliance on toxic street drugs, the government has not created any system to procure one