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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are kicking off December by drifting around their record heights. The S&P 500 was up 0.2% in early trading Monday after closing its best month of the year at an all-time high.

OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre has demanded the federal government present a plan before Parliament to beef up border security as U.S. president-elect Donald Trump threatens to impose stiff tariffs on Canada.

The Canadian Union of Postal Workers said its negotiators are reviewing the documents, and noted the union and Canada Post have both adjusted their demands in the hope of restarting talks.

The in-person meeting came at the end of a rocky week in which Trump threatened to impose 25 per cent tariffs on all imports from Canada and Mexico, unless the two countries stop illegal border crossings and prevent illicit drugs from entering the United States.

Trudeau's plane landed in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday evening, not far from where Trump's transition team is based at his Mar-a-Lago estate.

After a lid was put on Metro Vancouver politician travel, chair Mike Hurley has cemented a ban on staff travel; but not before a few more trips were taken as taxpayers ready for a 25.3 per cent increase to their 2025 regional property tax bill.

Overnight visits by citizens of many nations to Canada through B.C. in the first nine months of this year remain far below where they were in 2019

Expensive land and succession issues have led local farmers to import pricier options

Winners to be announced in January

OTTAWA — A coalition of Canadian news publishers is suing OpenAI for using news content to train its ChatGPT generative artificial intelligence system, saying the company breaches copyright by "scraping large swaths of content" from media websites.