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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tapped his top fixer in cabinet, Dominic LeBlanc, to replace Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland after she suddenly tendered her resignation from cabinet Monday morning in a fight over the nation's finances.

OTTAWA — Terry Fox has been selected to appear on the next $5 bank note. The federal government made the revelation in its fall economic statement on Monday.

OTTAWA — Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's abrupt departure from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet on Monday resulted in a mini cabinet shuffle, with Dominic LeBlanc stepping into the role.

OTTAWA — Mail is set to begin moving again on Tuesday after a month-long strike by Canada Post employees comes to a close, even as the union representing postal workers challenges the intervention in the labour dispute.

OTTAWA — In a career filled with fresh milestones, Chrystia Freeland is taking up another new role: backbench member of the governing Liberal party.

VICTORIA — A rare and historic water bomber that was on its final journey from British Columbia to a museum in Arizona was forced to make an emergency landing near Victoria due to mechanical issues.

OTTAWA — The Liberals' fiscal update was intended to encourage business investment and beef up border security ahead of Donald Trump's return to the White House next month.

Former Ottawa police major crimes investigator Randy Wisker remembers making a "mad scramble" to get to a pay phone in the early morning hours of April 12, 1996, after a fatal stabbing on the Portage Bridge.

MONTREAL — After another homeless person died outside in Montreal, the city's mayor on Monday implored the provincial government to do more to help people struggling with homelessness.

TORONTO — All 13 of the country's premiers will remain united as "Team Canada" in the face of a tariff threat from the United States despite "chaos" in Ottawa, Ontario Premier Doug Ford said hours after the federal finance minister's resignation.