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What the heck is pork collar? That was my first question when I was told it would be the star of the Manitoba Pork competition held at the Assiniboine Community College’s culinary arts program Wednesday.

WINNIPEG — Manitoba's Opposition New Democrats blocked the government from introducing its budget Wednesday, prompting Premier Brian Pallister to bail on a first ministers meeting in Ottawa later this week.

The latest news on the novel coronavirus and the illness dubbed COVID-19 (all times Eastern): 7:22 p.m. The BC Council of Forest Industries is cancelling its 2020 convention in Prince George because of COVID-19.

The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of March 11, 2020: — Ontario: 42 confirmed — British Columbia: 46 confirmed, including 1 death — Alberta: 19 confirmed — Quebec: 8 confirmed — New Brunswick: 1 presumptive —

OTTAWA — The Department of National Defence reported all Canadian service members safe following a rocket attack on a military base in Iraq Wednesday.

FREDERICTON — New Brunswick public health officials are reporting the province's first presumptive case of COVID-19.

Post-secondary students in Richmond and the rest of BC are eligible for new provincial grants.

OTTAWA — The criminal case against Canada's top military judge has collapsed. The Canadian Armed Forces' top prosecutor announced Wednesday that he was withdrawing all four charges against chief military judge Col.

OTTAWA — Leaders of Canada's three national Indigenous organizations say they plan to turn up the heat on the Liberal government's promise to enact the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples when they meet with Prime Minister Justin Trude

WASHINGTON — The glad-handing, confetti-and-skimmer-hat spirit of North American retail politics is on a collision course with the realities of life in a pandemic.