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Ottawa is putting $212 million more toward interim housing for people claiming asylum in Canada, including about $97 million for Toronto, where a shelter system at capacity has forced people to sleep outside.

OTTAWA — A former high-ranking security expert says Canada may loosen its arms-export restrictions against Turkey as that country moves to strengthen ties with its Western peers.

OTTAWA — The lawyer for "Freedom Convoy" organizer Tamara Lich warned the court Tuesday that the upcoming trial on her criminal charges should not put the entire convoy on trial.

WINNIPEG — Police and municipal crews removed a blockade Tuesday at a Winnipeg landfill where protesters had barricaded a road for almost two weeks to demand a search for the remains of Indigenous women.

OTTAWA — British police have arrested a Canadian man on suspicion of being a member of a terrorism group.

MONTREAL — Climate change will likely bring more weather conditions to Ontario and Quebec that are favourable to the development of tornadoes, but it's still unclear whether Central Canada will actually be hit by more of them, experts say.

OTTAWA — Canada must build more electricity generation in the next 25 years than it has over the last century in order to support a net-zero emissions economy by 2050, according to a new report from the Public Policy Forum.

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To plant more than 4,500 trees in one day, you don't move like a gardener, you move like a machine. In a video viewed millions of times on social media, Leslie Dart walks across a desolate and burnt landscape in Saskatchewan.

AXEL HEIBERG ISLAND, NUNAVUT — A team of researchers has travelled to a remote Arctic island in the hopes of better understanding the possibility of life on Mars.