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HALIFAX - Twenty years ago, only 30 per cent of Nova Scotia’s Mi’kmaq students were graduating from high school. Today, that number stands at 90 per cent - the highest on-reserve graduatio...

MONTREAL - People who were trapped for hours on a Montreal highway following a massive 2017 snowstorm will each receive up to $1,375 from the province, lawyers for the stranded motorists announced Thu...

REGINA - Defensive back Macho Harris is retiring as a Saskatchewan Roughrider after signing a one-day contract with the club. The Virginia Tech product spent four seasons with the Roughriders after ma...

NEWARK, N.J. - The husband of one of the “Real Housewives of New Jersey” reality TV stars has been released from federal prison and is waiting to see if he’ll be deported back to Ita...

ATHENS, Greece - An Athens hospital statement says “Zorba the Greek” composer Mikis Theodorakis has been discharged after undergoing surgery to have a pacemaker installed. The 94-year-old ...

OTTAWA - The Canadian government has announced $3 million in funding over four years to the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity (CAAWS) to support its eff...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A Crown prosecutor says a Newfoundland man murdered his five-year-old daughter in a calculated plan to inflict suffering on her mother, his estranged wife. A St. John’s,...

Ponoka is backing off from its threat to hold back property tax revenue from the province, saying they've made their point. Town Council has voted to rescind a previous motion from November to withhol...

SALISBURY, N.C. - A North Carolina thrift store has earned $1,000 off a hand-carved bedroom suite that may just be haunted. News outlets reports Habitat for Humanity Rowan County’s ReStore warne...

BOSTON - The biggest school admissions scandal ever prosecuted began with a tip from an executive investigators were targeting in a securities fraud probe, a law enforcement official said Thursday. Th...