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Canada's two biggest railways, Canadian National Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Kansas City Ltd.

OTTAWA — Labour Minister Steven MacKinnon said Thursday the federal government has asked the Canada Industrial Relations Board to end the lockout at the country's two biggest rail companies, ordering a return to work and imposing binding arbitration.

VICTORIA — British Columbia's finance minister says now is not the time to balance the province's budget.

VANCOUVER — Canada's Federal Court has agreed with British Columbia's minister of mental health and addictions that she should be a respondent to a court challenge against the province's decision to dial back its drug decriminalization policy.

OTTAWA — Health Canada-approved nicotine pouches will only be available behind pharmacy counters starting next week, as part of Health Minister Mark Holland's promised crackdown on the sale of new nicotine products to children.

OTTAWA — Mounties say they are responding to additional bomb threats made across Canada today that they believe are linked to similar threats made the day before.

The New Canadian's digital archives had been facing deletion, after Simon Fraser University Library announced recently it would no longer host them on its servers.

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MONTREAL — Lately, Karine Boudreau has toyed with the idea of quitting. For most of her 18-year career as a school psychologist, the thought of doing something else never crossed her mind.

OTTAWA — The Crown wants at least six current and former security officials to testify behind closed doors in the lawsuit of a Montreal man who was detained in Sudan — a move the man's lawyer calls a serious infringement of the open court principle.