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INUVIK, N.W.T. — The federal government is increasing its funding contribution for upgrades to an airport in the Northwest Territories by $80 million. It has now spent $230 million to extend and modernize the runway at Inuvik's airport.

OTTAWA — An Ottawa thoroughfare currently named after Canada's first prime minister is expected to receive a new Indigenous name later this year, the National Capital Commission said Thursday.

OTTAWA — A lawyer for six Canadian women and 13 children being held in Syrian camps says the federal government has agreed to help bring them home.

OTTAWA — The Canadian Armed Forces is shrinking its footprint in Iraq and the Middle East to free up troops for deployment to Europe and elsewhere, as a personnel shortage and growing demands at home and abroad test the military's limits.

OTTAWA — NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino should push back against the RCMP continuing to use a controversial neck hold.

OTTAWA — Ground-penetrating radar is the technology behind the discoveries of what are believed to be unmarked burial sites on the grounds of former residential schools, by providing communities with the first glimpses of physical evidence of possibl

MONTREAL — The mayor of a Quebec town where a propane explosion left three people dead last week says the identification of the victims Thursday will allow people to begin mourning.

A year after a family of four from India froze to death while trying to walk to the United States from Manitoba, the agency tasked with patrolling the border says others have not been deterred from attempting the same treacherous journey. U.S.

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