A legislative committee voted this afternoon to send a pro-Canada, anti-separatist petition to the provincial cabinet, recommending the debate about Alberta's place in Canada be settled in a referendum. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith is making a televised address to the province this evening around 6:45 p.m. MT.

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The U.S. decision to suspend planned ​biannual defense talks with Canada follows deepening concern that Ottawa is failing to take steps to become a "credible" security partner, ‌including by hiking military spending and completing a review of an F-35 fighter jet acquisition,

After publicly freezing a historic Canada-U.S. defence forum earlier this week, senior Pentagon officials sharpened their criticism Thursday, accusing Ottawa of failing to produce a credible NATO spending plan and dragging out a politically charged review of the F-35 fighter purchase,

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Canada will require streaming giants including Netflix Inc. and Spotify Technology SA to spend 15% of their domestic annual revenues on Canadian content, moving ahead with a law that’s been identified as a trade irritant by the US Trade Representative.

The prime minister says aging port and rail infrastructure is slowing cargo flows, impeding Canada's goal to double its non-U.S. exports by 2035.

Conservative MP Michael Chong says his trip to Taiwan this week is meant to exercise Canadian sovereignty and defy the Chinese government's warning to Canada not to send parliamentarians to the region.