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TORONTO — Eight-three per cent of adults in this country have a regular primary-care provider, but that still leaves 5.4 million adults without one, a new report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information says.

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MONTREAL — An investigation into a climate of fear at a Montreal primary school has reignited a debate about secularism in Quebec's education system, with the provincial government pledging to consider new measures to keep religion out of classrooms.

EDMONTON — The federal housing minister and the Alberta minister in charge of the file have spoken about funding to tackle encampments and homelessness.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told his MPs Wednesday that he would reflect on what they had to say in a three-hour caucus meeting where some Liberals confronted him about his leadership.

MONTREAL — Quebec's Court of Appeal has upheld a landmark 2022 decision that found a law permitting random traffic stops by police led to racial profiling.

VICTORIA — The leaders of British Columbia's New Democrats and B.C.

WINNIPEG — The effort to find the remains of two slain First Nations women believed to be in a landfill is on track and excavation in the target area is set to start in early December, Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said Wednesday.

OTTAWA — Abousfian Abdelrazik told a court Wednesday about the roller-coaster of emotions he experienced during the tense days of early 2009 when he awaited the green light to return to Canada from Sudan.

Researchers out of Alaska say some polar bears in the Arctic now face a greater risk of contracting several pathogens that weren't a threat to the animals decades ago.