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OTTAWA — Canada's annual inflation rate was 2.6 per cent in February, Statistics Canada says. Here's what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets):

TERREBONNE, Que. — The Parti Québécois recaptured a longtime stronghold northeast of Montreal, winning the riding of Terrebonne in a byelection Monday.

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LONDON — Prime Minister Mark Carney says United States President Donald Trump will have to stop his "disrespectful" comments about Canada before the two countries can have comprehensive bilateral conversations about trade and security.

MONTREAL — Rain and record warm weather sent several southern Quebec rivers spilling over their banks on Monday, forcing residents from their homes and leading officials to close roads and cancel classes.

VANCOUVER — Former student Robert Murray says he has a good excuse for returning a book to the University of B.C. Library 64 years late — the 83-year-old reckons it might have saved his and his son's life.

WINNIPEG — A second set of remains found in a Winnipeg-area landfill have been identified as belonging to a slain First Nations woman who was murdered in 2022 by a convicted serial killer.

VANCOUVER — Immigration lawyers say the case of a Vancouver woman detained in the United States over a denied visa is a warning to other Canadians that it's no longer business as usual when crossing the border for work.

The B.C. Court of Appeal has denied a father's bid to prevent his children getting vaccinated against the human papillomavirus.

Empty shelves and idle escalators greeted shoppers Monday as they poked through Hudson’s Bay stores looking for bargains and perhaps a piece of history.