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OTTAWA - B'nai Brith Canada says online hatred is fuelling a rise in anti-Semitism that saw record numbers of Jewish Canadians harassed and assaulted last year. The group released its annual audit of ...

MONTREAL - The exiled former president of Spain's Catalonia region is fighting a Canadian government decision to refuse him entry into the country to attend an event hosted by a Quebec nationalis...

OTTAWA - Health Canada says cigarette packs will have to be plain drab brown with standardized layouts and lettering, starting in November. The government says plain packages will increase the impact ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has turned to veteran Liberal Jeremy Broadhurst to run the governing party's bid for re-election this fall. Broadhurst, who is currently serv...

OTTAWA - Many more homes would have been lost to this year's devastating spring flooding in Eastern Canada over the weekend were it not for the back-breaking efforts of volunteers and the military, fl...

OTTAWA - A first-time Liberal MP and longtime military man says he won't run for re-election this fall. Retired lieutenant-general Andrew Leslie says in an open letter today that after careful conside...

OTTAWA - The federal government is warning the new government in Alberta not to scrap the province's legal limit on total emissions from oilsands of 100 million tonnes a year. Ottawa ha...

MONTREAL - Quebec's junior health minister says the death of a seven-year-old girl east of Montreal has exposed clear flaws in the province's youth protection system, and he wants ...

WASHINGTON - The White House is asking Congress for an additional $4.5 billion in emergency spending for border security. That's according to two people familiar with the request who spoke to The Asso...

KAMPALA, Uganda - The Ugandan pop star and opposition politician known as Bobi Wine was remanded to a maximum-security prison on Monday after being charged over his alleged role in a street protest la...