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TORONTO — TransUnion Canada says the average amount owing on mortgages was up nearly five per cent in the second quarter, even though a change in Ontario regulations last spring appears to have reduced the volume of home sales.

OTTAWA — Four teens are facing dozens of charges after a string of alleged violent robberies and abductions in Ottawa.

MONTREAL — More anti-migrant banners have popped up in Quebec, this time in Montreal where many asylum seekers are being temporarily housed.

BARRIE, Ont. — A 34-year-old Barrie, Ont., man faces an animal cruelty charge after police allege he grabbed a duck by its neck and snapped a photograph with it.

TORONTO — Ontario doctors appear to be prescribing lower amounts of opioids overall to treat patients with pain, say researchers, but many longtime users continue to be given daily doses of the potent narcotics that exceed national practice guideline

TORONTO — An interim safe injection site in Toronto — the first such officially-sanctioned facility in Canada's most populous city — will save lives as the city grapples with a spike in suspected overdoses, public health officials said Monday as the

CORNWALL, Ont. — Municipal politicians in this eastern Ontario community said Monday they were frustrated at the paucity of information from the federal government over an influx of Haitian asylum seekers crossing to Canada from the United States.

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Over 400 firefighters are working to contain the largest wildfire in British Columbia's history.

OTTAWA — The push for an Indigenous chapter in a renegotiated NAFTA could require support from Indigenous Peoples south of the border as well as in Canada, says Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde — a main advocate for its creat

QUEBEC — Federal Health Minister Jane Philpott says Canada's doctors have a major role to play in improving the health of the country's most vulnerable populations, including those at risk for a fatal overdose due to rampant opioid use and abuse, a c