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MONTREAL — Former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister and well-known constitutional expert Benoît Pelletier has died in Mexico at age 64, his family announced Monday.

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... What to know about today's carbon price increase The national price on pollution is going up another $15 per tonne today.

The price change on April 1 affects the consumer levy, which applies in every province and territory except British Columbia, Quebec and Northwest Territories.

MONTREAL — A small forest fire has been extinguished in a provincial park west of Montreal, signalling an early start to the 2024 wildfire season.

Walter Tauro says he didn't even know what Guinness World Records were before he was recognized by the popular British corporation as the world’s oldest kidney transplant recipient earlier this month.

A dog called Hero lived up to his name earlier this week after spending two days by his stranded master's side, keeping his owner warm and even fending off coyotes while the man waited to be rescued from a muddy ditch in southern Alberta.

The chance to observe a natural celestial spectacle alongside one of the Seven Wonders of North America is expected to draw about a million people to Niagara Falls, Ont.

MONTREAL — Police in Burlington, Vt. say its residents are finding hidden AirTags and other GPS tracking devices on vehicles returning from Montreal.

IQALUIT, Nunavut — P.J. Akeeagok was a teenager in a tiny hamlet on the tip of Ellesmere Island, watching with anticipation when Nunavut was officially born. Twenty-five years later, he is the premier of Canada's youngest territory.

OTTAWA — It was 4:40 in the morning when bombs started to drop on Lilyia Dvornichenko's hometown of Kharkiv in Ukraine, just an hour from the Russian border.