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OTTAWA — Celebrity investor and reality-TV star Kevin O'Leary, who rattled Conservative cages three months ago when he joined the party's leadership race, did it again Wednesday by quitting a contest observers believe he had every chance of winning.

OTTAWA — The Conservative leadership race now enters the final weeks with penultimate debate showcasing the task at hand for the majority of candidates: take down clear front-runner Maxime Bernier.

TORONTO — Ontario's first balanced budget in a decade is being released this afternoon and is expected to contain new money to benefit seniors, students, parents, caregivers and patients.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's Liberal government is expected to present a balanced budget Thursday that many believe will lay the groundwork for an election call that could come as early as this weekend.

Senior Mounties should not have included the "influence of finances" when deciding which RCMP divisions would first get semi-automatic carbine rifles, an RCMP tactical expert testified Wednesday at the national police force's trial on charges of viol

CALGARY — Two new reports from environmental groups say methane emissions in Canada's oil and gas sector are higher than previously thought, as debate continues on how urgently they need to be reduced. The David Suzuki Foundation partnered with St.

FORT CHIPEWYAN, Alta. — RCMP and Parks Canada are now treating the search for four missing hunters in northeastern Alberta as a recovery operation after failing to find the men.

REGINA — A Canadian man has been charged in the United States with harbouring and transporting an alien in connection with a human smuggling investigation. Victor Omoruyi made his first court appearance Wednesday in Grand Forks, N.D.

CALGARY — The father of the three-month-old baby whose death has been ruled a homicide has been put on administrative leave by the Calgary church where he serves as an associate pastor.

FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. — Wood Buffalo Mayor Melissa Blake says she's not expecting last May's wildfire to have much of an impact on the Fort McMurray area's long-term population.