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OTTAWA — Once upon a time, Chrystia Freeland attempted to relate to Canadians' cost-of-living concerns with a personal anecdote — and it didn't produce a fairy-tale ending.

OTTAWA — Canada's largest federal public-service union says that some 155,000 workers will go on strike across the country after talks with the government failed to produce an agreement before a Tuesday night deadline.

OTTAWA — Canada's federal public servants will need to show up at the picket line for four hours each day — even if their union has been trying to negotiate permanent work-from-home arrangements with the government.

BURNABY, B.C. — The first Vancouver police officer to interact with Myles Gray in an altercation that ended in his death told a British Columbia coroner's inquest that she feared for her safety and called for backup. Const.

OTTAWA — Canada's largest federal public-service union says that some 155,000 workers will go on strike after talks with the government failed to produce an agreement before its 9 p.m. ET deadline. -- More coming -- The Canadian Press

REGINA — A Saskatchewan cabinet minister has apologized aftera public service medal was given to a man who pleaded guilty to domestic assault, but the Opposition New Democrats say it shows a pattern of the provincial government not taking intimate pa

VANCOUVER — The mother of a teenager stabbed to death on a transit bus in Surrey, B.C., says she hopes her son's death will bring change.

EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is reversing part of her government’s new media question restriction policy but says she will continue to limit queries in order to provide more answers.

ROSEAU, Minn. — Nine people were detained and one was missing after trying to walk across the Canada-United States border in the early hours of Tuesday morning, a Minnesota sheriff says.

OTTAWA — A new report says hundreds of thousands of Canadians may have missed out on government money intended to help with the rising cost of living because the housing and dental benefits rolled out last year have had "atrocious" take-up.