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OTTAWA - Lawmakers are debating single-event sports betting as legislation to legalize the activity reaches final reading in the House of Commons. The would-be bill aims to amend Criminal Code provisi...

OTTAWA - International graduates and essential workers eligible to apply for permanent residency under a new program say requiring them to retake language proficiency tests is unreasonable, especially...

SASKATOON - Nazeem Muhajarine says he feels a sense of relief after receiving his first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine last week at a centre in Saskatoon."It was just so well-organized and run. I felt com...

Mass testing and contact tracing is underway for staff and inmates at the Bowden Institution after a COVID-19 outbreak was declared at the facility on April 18.Officials with Correctional Service of C...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - The Czech Republic on Thursday ordered 63 more Russian diplomats to leave the country, further escalating a dispute between the two nations over the alleged involvement of Rus...

Rocky Mountain House town council has turned down a request from the town's RCMP Staff Sgt. to begin charging for criminal record and vulnerable sector checks. Criminal record checks are usually neede...

MONTREAL - The Journal de Montreal newspaper is being criticized for running a photo from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's 2018 trip to India on its front page today to accompany a COVID-19 story. Trud...

During the pandemic, many of us have spent several months at home. To pass the time, we have started tackling projects that have been on our to-do lists for months, even years. For me, that meant clea...

EDMONTON - Education Minister Adriana LaGrange says the group representing Alberta teachers is playing politics with a proposed new kindergarten to Grade 6 curriculum and isn't sincere about real brid...

JERUSALEM - A Syrian anti-aircraft missile landed in southern Israel early Thursday, setting off air raid sirens near the country's top-secret nuclear reactor, the Israeli military said. In response, ...