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The federal government will provide financial help for quarantined Canadians over novel coronavirus concerns, and pad its budget contingency should the economic hit be prolonged and deep, Finance Minister Bill Morneau said Friday.

MONTREAL — A Montreal-area commuter rail line will be up and running again this afternoon following more than three weeks of service disruption by a rail blockade on the Mohawk territory of Kahnawake.

OTTAWA — The RCMP is helping Ukrainian authorities in a criminal investigation of the downing of Flight PS752, Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says.

Closing out the first week of the spring sitting at the Legislature, deputy leader and Corrections and Policing critic Nicole Sarauer questioned the Sask. Party’s ability to fund a growing problem in the province, women fleeing domestic violence.

TORONTO — A 14-year-old boy abducted from a Toronto street as payback for his stepbrother's alleged criminal activity has been safely reunited with his family, the city's police chief said Friday as he appealed for the public's help in the case.

OTTAWA — The unemployment rate in Canada nudged up a tenth of a percentage point to 5.

TORONTO — Ontario Liberals will gather this weekend to select their new leader, a person who will face the daunting task of whipping a decimated party back into fighting form in time for an election just over two years away.

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VANCOUVER — As members of the Wet'suwet'en Nation mull a draft deal over rights and title, another Indigenous community knows what that kind of recognition could look like.

VANCOUVER — Countless treasured Indigenous cultural objects and ancestral remains are held by museums in Canada and across the world, and local communities and human rights experts say it's time they are returned according to the United Nations Decla