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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and King Charles spoke Wednesday for the first time since the King's cancer diagnosis. The Royal Family said the King held an audience with the Canadian prime minister via video link.

OTTAWA — Canada hasn't made a final decision on whether to resume funding to a United Nations aid organization in the Gaza Strip when its next scheduled payment is due in April.

MONTREAL — Two Montreal-area Chinese groups and their director have filed a lawsuit alleging the RCMP defamed them when officers said they were investigating clandestine Chinese government "police stations"operating out of their premises.

EDMONTON — An Alberta First Nation has filed a sweeping lawsuit against the province's energy regulator and the government over releases from an oilsands mine, alleging the agency acted in bad faith and is set up in a way that violates the Constituti

OTTAWA — Government officials say online hate speech would have to portray a group as "inherently violent" or "unhuman" to meet the threshold for investigation by a human-rights tribunal under a newly proposed law.

OTTAWA — The federal government is open to possible changes to the Emergencies Act but says it first wants to consult widely on the law it invoked to quell "Freedom Convoy" protests two years ago.

OTTAWA — The federal New Democrats want the government to fund a national school food program in the upcoming budget — and for Liberals to fulfil their election promise to put one in place.

Ottawa says it has suspended the largest contractor that worked on the ArriveCan app from bidding or working on government contracts that have security requirements.

GATINEAU, Que. — First Nations leaders gathered Wednesday to discuss how they can better prepare for the wildfires, pandemics, floods and effects of climate change that disproportionately affect their communities.

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