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OTTAWA - Justice Minister David Lametti says currently a "larger discussion" on decriminalization is not happening, aside from the specific measure taken with British Columbia. Lametti, who notes the ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Two court-appointed prosecutors declined Wednesday to charge a Wisconsin sheriff's deputy in the 2016 fatal shooting of a man sleeping in a park. The decision validates a district...

MIAMI (AP) - Gilberto Rodrguez Orejuela, an elderly leader of the former Cali cartel that smuggled vast amounts of cocaine from Colombia to the United States in the 1980s and 1990s, has died in a U.S....

Dick Pound held almost every International Olympic Committee job there was except president during his 44 years as a member. Having reached his mandatory retirement age of 80 in March, the Canadian du...

FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) - A jury in Virginia is deliberating for a third day in the defamation claims of Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. The seven-person civil jury resumed deliberations Wednesday morning afte...

Martin St. Louis has officially become the 32nd head coach in Montreal Canadiens history after signing a three-year extension with the National Hockey League club on Wednesday. St. Louis had been serv...

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HALIFAX - The prevalence of ticks that can carry Lyme disease is expected to be higher than ever in much of Canada this year, researchers say. Vett Lloyd, a researcher and director of the Lloyd Tick L...

TORONTO - Jurors are to continue their deliberations today in the sexual assault trial of Jacob Hoggard, the lead singer of the Canadian band Hedley. Deliberations began Tuesday afternoon and jurors r...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia will soon join a handful of jurisdictions around the world where drug users aren't criminalized for possessing small amounts of some illicit drugs for personal use. Charge...