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TORONTO — TransUnion Canada says the average amount owing on mortgages was up nearly five per cent in the second quarter, even though a change in Ontario regulations last spring appears to have reduced the volume of home sales.

MONTREAL — More anti-migrant banners have popped up in Quebec, this time in Montreal where many asylum seekers are being temporarily housed.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government has moved to impose a labour bill that would establish a wage package for 75,000 public sector employees.

STRATFORD, P.E.I. — A father who was irked at a parking spot for new mothers at a P.E.I. grocery store has seemingly prodded Sobeys to include new dads too.

OTTAWA — A mandatory review of the country's largest seniors benefit program is predicting all-time highs in spending over the coming years with waves of baby boomer retirements — spending levels that could have been even higher if not for changes to

TORONTO — Ontario doctors appear to be prescribing lower amounts of opioids overall to treat patients with pain, say researchers, but many longtime users continue to be given daily doses of the potent narcotics that exceed national practice guideline

TORONTO — An interim safe injection site in Toronto — the first such officially-sanctioned facility in Canada's most populous city — will save lives as the city grapples with a spike in suspected overdoses, public health officials said Monday as the

CORNWALL, Ont. — Municipal politicians in this eastern Ontario community said Monday they were frustrated at the paucity of information from the federal government over an influx of Haitian asylum seekers crossing to Canada from the United States.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Over 400 firefighters are working to contain the largest wildfire in British Columbia's history.

OTTAWA — The push for an Indigenous chapter in a renegotiated NAFTA could require support from Indigenous Peoples south of the border as well as in Canada, says Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde — a main advocate for its creat