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The government has billed the one-time payment as targeted inflation relief for some 11 million low- and modest-income households.

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of May 11 ... What we are watching in Canada ...

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals have made it clear that Canada's road to a greener economy will be paved with billions of dollars in corporate subsidies.

OTTAWA — The RCMP says it expects officers in three parts of the country to start field-testing body-worn cameras in the coming days.

MONTREAL — The controversial decision by teachers at a Quebec school to replace Mother's Day events with a celebration of parents has caused ripples all the way to the provincial legislature, but supporters say such moves can benefit children.

WASHINGTON — Unchastened and unrepentant, Donald Trump picked up Wednesday where he left off two years ago, rejecting the 2020 election results and his role in the Jan. 6 riots, denouncing Democrats as "stupid fools" and vowing to make the U.S.

The number of Alberta wildfire evacuees dropped Wednesday, but thousands remain out of their homes as firefighters braced for hotter, drier conditions in the coming days.

OTTAWA — People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier appears set to announce his candidacy in a coming byelection for a federal seat in Manitoba.

A heat wave that's expected to push daytime temperatures 10 to 15 degrees above seasonal norms is raising the wildfire risk in Alberta and British Columbia, where crews are already battling early-season blazes.

CACHE CREEK, B.C. — Cache Creek Mayor John Ranta says flooding in the B.C. Interior town is already the worst he's seen in 50 years, and he's expecting even more trouble as blazing temperatures forecast this weekend hit the snowpack.