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OTTAWA — Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the annual pace of new housing starts fell 15 per cent last month compared with March.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has spoken with Emmanuel Macron to congratulate him on his election as the next president of France.

TORONTO — Updated opioid-prescribing guidelines released Monday encourage doctors to avoid giving the powerful narcotics as a first-line treatment to patients with chronic, non-cancer pain and instead try other medications or non-pharmaceutical thera

TORONTO — Caring for aging parents costs Canadians $33 billion a year in direct out-of-pocket expenses and time off work, a new study by CIBC says.

NEW YORK — Canadian theatrical production "Come From Away" has won five Outer Critics Circle Awards, including outstanding new Broadway musical.

Five stories in the news for Monday, May 8 ——— REINFORCEMENTS DEPLOYED IN QUEBEC FLOOD FIGHT Additional Canadian military personnel have been deployed in Quebec's vast flood zone to help exhausted residents battle the unrelenting deluge.

SANDY LAKE, Ont. — Provincial police say a man has died following an incident in the remote Sandy Lake First Nation in northwestern Ontario.

Thousands of Canadians across the country spent the weekend in a desperate struggle with rising floodwaters caused by unusually persistent rainfall.

TORONTO — Faith Ekakitie wants to live up to the expectations of a first overall pick. Winnipeg selected the six-foot-two, 304-pound Iowa defensive lineman No. 1 in the CFL draft Sunday. The move wasn't a surprise as the 24-year-old Brampton, Ont.

VANCOUVER — Tuesday marks the end of a bitterly fought election campaign in British Columbia, leaving voters to decide whether the Liberals' jobs-centred pitch is enough to clinch a fifth consecutive term in office or whether the NDP convinced them i