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OTTAWA — Former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper has endorsed Pierre Poilievre to be the party's next leader

MASKWACIS — Pope Francis delivered on Monday an apology for the Roman Catholic Church's role in residential schools, saying many Christians supported the colonization of Indigenous people.

LANGLEY, B.C. — A series of deadly shootings that police have said involved 'transient victims' in Langley, B.C.

MASKWACIS — Tears streamed down the faces of Indigenous elders and survivors of residential schools as Pope Francis stood before them and begged forgiveness for the "deplorable evil" committed by members the Roman Catholic Church.

MASKWACIS — For minutes Pope Francis sat in his wheelchair, staring at hand-painted crosses marking graves. A helicopter whirled in the grey sky in the distance. Camera shutters clicked. Otherwise, there was silence.

Pope Francis has left Edmonton's Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples. The pontiff gave an address to church members about reconciliation and received several gifts.

OTTAWA — The federal government has asked the private sector to weigh in on how companies could play a role in Canada's national dental-care plan. The Liberals set aside $5.

OTTAWA — RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki says there was poor communication between her office and Nova Scotia Mounties in the days following the shooting spree that left 23 people, including the gunman, dead in April 2020.

OTTAWA — The federal government is facing fresh calls to boost security at the National War Memorial after images surfaced showing someone draping flags on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

OTTAWA — Telecommunications experts called for scuttling the planned Rogers Communications takeover of rival Shaw, slamming the response of Ottawa and the federal telecom regulator to the serious Rogers outage earlier this month.