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TIRANA, Albania (AP) — Albania’s Orthodox Church on Sunday elected Joan Pelushi as its new leader following the death in January of Archbishop Anastasios, who had revived the church after the fall of communism in 1990.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Under warm strobe lights and pulsing house beats, a recent festival in Mexico City offered more than music, food and booze. Amidst the usual festival fare, a booth provided free, anonymous drug testing.

REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN, CANADA — The Saskatchewan government has announced a list of fee changes coming this year, including a doubling of the cost to register electric vehicles.

Before COVID-19, it might have been unthinkable to have a stranger picking out bananas or selecting the perfect pork roast for your Sunday dinner.

British Columbia's government is proposing giving cabinet broad-reaching emergency powers to respond to what Premier David Eby calls the "human-caused disaster" coming in like a freight train from the United States.

Empire Co. Ltd.'s CEO says the grocer is seeing sales of products from the U.S. "rapidly dropping" as shoppers look to support the Canadian economy and avoid the potential effects of tariffs.

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ March 9 The Washington Post says Americans need the CFPB Ever since the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau opened in 2011 with a mandate to regulate financial institutions, its de

Steel and aluminum are ubiquitous in Americans' lives. A stainless steel refrigerator holds aluminum soda cans. A stainless steel drum tumbles inside an aluminum washing machine.

OTTAWA — The federal government will impose 25 per cent tariffs on U.S. goods worth $29.8 billion in retaliation for steel and aluminum tariffs the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump imposed Wednesday.

MONTREAL — It's unclear whether Northvolt North America's electric vehicle battery plant project in Quebec will proceed after its parent company filed for bankruptcy in Sweden on Wednesday.