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EDMONTON — Alberta is revising down this year’s budget bottom line as it doles out inflation-fighting payouts but still expects to finish with a petro-powered $12.3-billion surplus.

OTTAWA — International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan is facing opposition criticism because he did not make a public statement about human rights during his visit to Qatar for the World Cup.

REGINA — Saskatchewan is to soon gain control of the carbon pricing charge that shows up on residents' power bills. However,Premier Scott Moe and his Saskatchewan Party government are still mulling over how that new revenue should be spent.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A gun rights group, sheriff and gun store owner filed an emergency motion in federal court late Wednesday seeking to stop enforcement of one of the strictest gun control laws in the nation.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s government says an anti-missile system which Germany offered to send to Poland should instead go to Ukraine, a proposal that is a likely non-starter for Berlin because it would significantly ratchet up NATO involvement

LONGUEUIL, Que. — A former employee of Quebec's power utility charged with spying on behalf of China denied on Thursday that he is a flight risk and said he intends to remain in Canada to fight the charges.

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland drew a direct link between Canada’s economic and national security on Thursday, as she defended her government’s decision to declare a public order emergency to end the "Freedom Convoy" protests.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia won’t be using revenue from its fuel tax to help offset the effects of carbon pricing imposed by the federal government, the province’s finance minister said Thursday. All of the tax collected from fuels — including the 15.

OTTAWA — The full effects of interest rate hikes have yet to be felt — and will be "even more powerful" than many anticipate, said former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz Thursday in a speech about ways Canada can chart a path toward economic gr

TORONTO — The rate of opioid deaths in Ontario decreased by more than 10 per cent in the first two quarters of this year compared to the year before, new data shows, with the chief coroner saying the decline brings some hope.