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Singing frogs are looking for love. Sweet sap is flowing from the maple trees. Striking migratory birds are returning to their northerly nests. Spring is about transformation, a season often marked by its dynamic sights, smells, sounds and tastes.

OTTAWA — Members of an RCMP unit that helps to protect the prime minister and other public figures face a risk of burnout due to a heavy workload and limited resources, says a newly released internal evaluation report.

OTTAWA — Canada's new prime minister and its premiers agreed Friday to pursue plans to move more energy across the country, tear down internal trade barriers and build big projects faster.

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney confirmed Friday that his government would keep the emissions cap on oil and gas production in place if elected — but would fast-track investments in carbon capture to meet those emissions targets.

OTTAWA — Former cabinet minister Randy Boissonnault says he will not run again in the upcoming election. The Liberal party had confirmed Boissonnault as a candidate in Edmonton Centre, a riding he won in 2015, lost in 2019, then reclaimed in 2021.

OTTAWA — Canadians with ties to Syria say it's time for Ottawa to drop sanctions on the country and help nudge its new leaders toward a democratic, pluralistic future.

VANCOUVER — Nearly half of the landslides, debris flows and washouts that occurred during British Columbia's atmospheric river disaster in November 2021 originated in areas that had been logged or burned by wildfire, a study has found.

MONTREAL — If the four main federal political parties want to take part in the TVA network's head-to-head French-language debate in the upcoming election campaign, they will have to shell out $75,000 each, the Montreal-headquartered broadcaster said

STANSTEAD, Que. — For more than 100 years, people in Stanstead, Que., have been able to walk into Derby Line, Vt., to enter the border-straddling Haskell Free Library and Opera House – no passport required.

Mayors of several Canadian border cities and towns are calling for support from the federal government as the tariff war with the United States starts to hurt their communities, warning of dire economic consequences if Ottawa doesn't act immediately.