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FREDERICTON - New Brunswick will get its next minority government on Friday, one week after the Liberals fell on a confidence vote in the provincial legislature. Premier-designate Blaine Higgs, leader...

Competition’s tough in the big, bad city. Just ask a chickadee. Research has found that urban birds aren’t shy about throwing their weight around against weaker rivals - and the richer the...

WASHINGTON - The brash shareholder activist Evelyn Y. Davis, who owned stock in more than 80 public companies and rarely failed to make her presence known at corporate-investor meetings, has died. She...

NASHVILLE - Tennessee and Alabama will get their largest solar power projects yet, to supply a Facebook data centre with 100 per cent renewable energy. Officials with the Tennessee Valley Authority an...

LOS ANGELES - Shaquille O’Neal and Ken Jeong are trying out as comedy teammates. TBS said it has ordered a reality series pilot that will test the pair’s ability to take on odd jobs. The p...

MONTREAL - As the Bloc Quebecois seeks to rebuild, almost everything including the party’s name will be up for discussion - but not sovereignty. “The DNA of the Bloc - it’s the defen...

The efforts of a local veteran have resulted in the launch of a new Alberta Health Services (AHS) program that will see veterans receiving care at the Red Deer Regional Hospital Centre have their serv...

VANCOUVER - A former wide receiver with the Canadian Football League’s B.C. Lions has made his first court appearance following a charge of second-degree murder more than nine years after a woma...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will join world leaders in France this weekend to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. Trudeau’s office says the prime mini...

OTTAWA - A family of Syrian refugees in British Columbia got a tax bill for $27,000 after the Canada Revenue Agency asked the parents to prove their children live with them in Canada - by getting a le...