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WASHINGTON — Exactly what president-elect Donald Trump plans to do with his tariff threat remains a mystery to Canadian officials and most Republicans, Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said Thursday.

OTTAWA — Former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney officially kicked off his bid to replace Justin Trudeau on Thursday by launching barbs at Pierre Poilievre and describing the Conservative leader as a dangerous, sloganeering populist.

OTTAWA — Mark Carney is a known commodity in Liberal circles. Party organizers have tried to convince the former central banker to run under the big red banner for the past decade.

EDMONTON — The union representing more than 3,000 school support workers in Edmonton says their public school division is having substitute teachers replace its members in the classroom.

An Alberta judge has stayed sex charges against a deaf man because the courts couldn't find an interpreter to help him understand the legal proceedings.

GATINEAU, Que. — The Competition Bureau has reached a deal with Empire Co. Ltd. to remove a property control that the regulator says restricted grocery store competition in Crowsnest Pass, Alta.

OTTAWA — The country's premiers emerged from a key meeting about Canada-U.S.

OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the total number of housing starts in 2024 rose two per cent compared with 2023, helped by increased starts in Alberta, Quebec and the Atlantic provinces.

CALGARY — A man and woman are accused of lighting their Calgary home on fire, triggering an explosion that injured several people last fall.

EDMONTON — Three Alberta disability advocacy groups say they're shocked and saddened after learning the provincial government plans to back out of their funding contracts more than a year early.