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BRUSSELS - The European Parliament has overwhelming adopted a resolution declaring the entire 27-member European Union a "freedom zone" for LGBT people, an effort to push back on rising homophobia in ...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government is introducing restrictions on access to used police gear in reaction to last year's mass shooting by a gunman who wore an RCMP uniform and drove a replica police ...

CALGARY - A Wayne Middaugh-skipped Wild Card Three rink has secured a berth in the championship round at the Canadian men's curling championship. Middaugh, who is skipping the Ontario rink in place of...

AUSTIN, Texas - The one-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic is passing largely unnoticed in the Texas capital. Even though Gov. Greg Abbott has fully lifted statewide restrictions, people are pe...

OTTAWA - Canadian health authorities are keeping a watchful eye on European investigations of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine after reports of blood clots following inoculations, but say there is no ev...

Court proceedings have been put over two more weeks as a local man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the shooting death of a young Ponoka man considers his options. Tyler John Campbell, 28, was ba...

NEW YORK - Oh, the books that sold last week by Dr. Seuss. More than 1.2 million copies of stories by the late children's author sold in the first week of March - more than quadruple from the week bef...

CALGARY - The men curling in the Canadian championship don't much care there's a small, silver box processing their nasal and throat swabs in a matter of hours, but the result it produces matters deep...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will examine minimum sentences for armed robbery, the second case involving mandatory firearms penalties the top court has recently agreed to hear. The latest deci...

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says his party will vote against an amended bill that would expand access to medical assistance in dying.The vote on Bill C-7, expected in the House of Commons today,...