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LONGUEUIL, Que. - A plan to relocate deer from a Montreal-area park has fallen through after an ethics committee deemed the strategy unsafe. About half the population of white-tailed deer in Michel-Ch...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government is adding 12 weeks of eligibility to two key benefits for unemployed workers and parents at home with children. The extra life for th...

NEW YORK - Prince Markie Dee, a member of the Fat Boys hip-hop trio who later formed his own band and became a well-known radio host, has died. He was 52. His death was announced Thursday by the Siriu...

A 37-year-old Fort St. John, B.C. man has been arrested by ALERT's Internet Child Exploitation unit for allegedly posting sexually explicit images of his daughter online.Following up on a tip that was...

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes rose again last month, a sign that the housing market's strong momentum from 2020 may be carrying over into this year. Existing U.S. home sales rose 0.6% in Jan...

Transport Canada has issued fines to two individual passengers for $10,000 and $7,000 respectively, for presenting a false or misleading COVID-19 test and for making a false declaration about their he...

Ottawa says it intends to guarantee the right to work in French within all federally regulated private businesses with more than 50 employees in Quebec and in predominantly French-speaking communities...

EDMONTON - Alberta Health Minister Tyler Shandro says he believes it's safe to move forward with the province's staged reopening plan as COVID-19 case numbers trend downward.Alberta reported 415 new i...

The Annual Aspire Children's Raffle is one of Aspire's largest annual fundraising efforts. All proceeds from the raffle will support programs and services for children with special needs and their fam...

New federal forecasts project that COVID-19 variants could fuel a surge of 20,000 new cases per day by mid-March if public health restrictions are relaxed further. The Public Health Agency of Canada r...