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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has reached a deal with Boeing that will allow the airplane giant to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading U.S.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday threatened a 50% tax on all imports from the European Union as well a 25% tariff on smart phones unless those products are made in America .

MONTREAL — Each morning, travellers and cargo take off from Montreal’s Trudeau airport for a 1,600-kilometre flight to Puvirnituq in northern Quebec aboard a nearly 50-year-old Air Inuit plane.

CALGARY — Police say a woman has died after she was run over in a Calgary restaurant drive-thru. Officers say the woman in her 70s was walking across a Wendy's drive-thru lane Thursday, when it's believed she tripped and fell.

Ontario is planning to require certain construction sites to have automatic external defibrillators.

OTTAWA — Retail sales rose 0.8 per cent to $69.8 billion in March, helped by an increase in new car sales as Canadians looked to get behind a new set of wheels before tariffs started to raise prices.

CALGARY — Vermilion Energy Inc. has signed a deal to sell a group of assets in Saskatchewan and Manitoba for $415 million. The company says it will use the net proceeds from the sale to repay debt.

OTTAWA — Housing experts are pushing back against a federal cabinet minister's recent claim that home prices don't need to go down in order to restore housing affordability.

OTTAWA — The union representing about 55,000 Canada Post employees has called for a countrywide halt to overtime work, saying its negotiators will continue to review the latest contract offers from the mail carrier.

First Nations leaders in British Columbia say proposed legislation to fast-track resource projects will likely lead to protests and litigation should the provincial government push the law through.