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EDMONTON — Alberta's government is looking to power some of its jails with solar energy.

TORONTO — There's a deepening divide among consumers, even as the rate of missed credit payments dipped, a new Equifax Canada report shows. It shows 1.4 million Canadians missed a credit payment in the second quarter.

Air Canada cancelled hundreds of additional flights on Sunday after the union representing its flight attendants announced the workers would remain on strike in defiance of a back-to-work order.

Passengers were still scrambling to rebook their flights home on Sunday, as Air Canada cancelled more commutes amid an ongoing labour dispute with the union representing more than 10,000 employees.

John Slipp took over his father’s duty-free store in 1994, which had been started more than a decade earlier. This month, he closed the Woodstock Duty Free Shop Inc. as lower traffic at the U.S.

OTTAWA — Tariff impacts are expected to keep underlying inflation elevated in July, a Desjardins economist says, even if the headline figure retreats. Statistics Canada is set to report inflation figures for July on Tuesday.

Air travellers across the country continued dealing with hundreds of grounded planes on Saturday as the federal government announced it was ordering a binding arbitration in a labour strife between Air Canada and its 10,000 flight attendants on strik

OTTAWA — The federal Liberal government is defending its decision to intervene to resolve a labour dispute at Canada's largest airline amid criticism from unions and opposition parties that the move sides with big business.

The federal government ordered Air Canada and its flight attendants into binding arbitration on Saturday, putting an abrupt end to a strike and lockout that began less than 12 hours earlier with grounded planes and thousands of Canadians struggling t

VERCHÈRES — The Canadian Coast Guard says an operation to free a ship that ran aground in the St. Lawrence River this week has been successful.