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MONTREAL — The head of a union representing transit maintenance workers said members aren't giving up on their fight for better wages and conditions, despite new legislation that will give the Quebec government greater power to end strikes.

SUMMERLAND — A British Columbia animal sanctuary whose birds have been sickened by an avian flu outbreak says it has been receiving threats and "unjustified hate" since going public with its situation. Critteraid in Summerland, B.C.

OTTAWA — In a Nov. 11 story about federal health funding in the budget, The Canadian Press erroneously reported that the $2.5-billion in annual funding for bilateral health agreements with the provinces and territories is set to expire in 2027.

OTTAWA — The federal budget signals there is no room for the premiers to negotiate for more health-care funding in the coming years, one economist says - and the Ontario government is calling for that to change.

The prospect of an Alberta sovereignty referendum triggered a wave of clickbait stories on video-sharing sites earlier this year.

OTTAWA — Eight fewer departments and agencies are being asked to slash their budgets at least 15 per cent over the next three years, a move one economist says shows Ottawa's cost cutting exercise was not "thought through.

OTTAWA — Infrastructure investments and the state of U.S.-Canada trade negotiations are high on the agenda Canada's premiers have for an upcoming meeting with Prime Minister Mark Carney.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed...

OTTAWA — New polling suggests Canadians had a lukewarm response to the federal budget released last week — leading one pollster to argue all parties should think twice before mounting an election campaign over the spending plan.

EDMONTON — Lance Hackewich loves his Saskatchewan Roughriders -- and he’s got a 75-year-old desiccated, positively inedible piece of history to prove it. It's a loaf of bread from 1951.