Politics

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland says she will meet provincial and territorial finance ministers later this week to discuss the possibility of Alberta's withdrawal from the Canada Pension Plan.

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. — The Newfoundland and Labrador government is inching closer to balancing its books, according to a fiscal update on Tuesday.

TORONTO — Ontario is extending a 5.7-cent cut to the gas tax until next summer, Premier Doug Ford announced Tuesday. The government launched the cut in July 2022 and has extended it several times since, and now the reduction – along with a 5.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court wrestled Tuesday with whether public officials can block critics from commenting on their social media accounts, an issue that first arose in a case involving former President Donald Trump.

OTTAWA — Former Liberal MP Rodger Cuzner, who was most recently Canada's consul general in Boston, has been named a senator for Nova Scotia.

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. labor unions are once again flexing their muscles in the national spotlight. The United Auto Workers' tentative agreements with Detroit's Big Three automakers could end the union's six-week strike.

BOSTON (AP) — In 1648, Margaret Jones, a midwife, became the first person in Massachusetts — the second in New England — to be executed for witchcraft, decades before the infamous Salem witch trials .

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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's Democratic U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer announced Monday that he won't be running for reelection next year. Blumenauer has represented Oregon's solidly Democratic 3rd Congressional District since 1996.

WINNIPEG — Workers at Manitoba's Crown-owned auto insurance corporation rejected the latest contract offer Monday and remained on strike.