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OTTAWA - The federal government has begun making payments to confidential informants for intelligence that has so far brought in more than $19 million from offshore tax evaders. Th...

Genetic research is showing that the Indigenous people of Canada's Western Arctic are descended from some of the first humans to live in North America. A newly published paper says the Dene who&n...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer should eject colleague Michael Cooper from the Tory caucus over things the MP said about online hate in a parliamentary hearing last week, says a Liberal MP....

OTTAWA - A former top public servant in the federal, Alberta and Ontario governments will head up the RCMP's fledgling board of civilian advisers assigned to help the police force modernize. Besi...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has ruled that grand jury transcripts in the killing of rapper Nipsey Hussle will remain sealed, for now. Superior Court Judge Robert J. Perry in a hearing Wednesday ...

OTTAWA - The federal government is promising to spend $15 million to save a tree-planting program in Ontario. Premier Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government cancelled the 50 million tree...

CALGARY - Canadian actress Amber Marshall has been chosen to lead the Calgary Stampede parade this year. Marshall, 31, is best known for starring as horse-whisperer Amy Fleming, whose family...

WINNIPEG - The NFL is coming to Winnipeg. A pre-season game between the Oakland Raiders and Green Bay Packers will be played at IG Field - home of the CFL's Winnipeg Blue Bombers - in the th...

PHILADELPHIA - Funk-soul band Kool & The Gang is being honoured with an award named for pioneering opera singer Marian Anderson. Kool & The Gang, known for hits like "Get Down on It," ''Celebr...

VANCOUVER - Lawyers for the RCMP and Canadian Border Services Agency deny allegations their officers searched Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou's phones and electronic devices after a borde...