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OTTAWA - “The member opposite’s assertion that the numbers (of irregular migrants) are going up is simply wrong. We have seen a significant reduction of those numbers just over the past fe...

JERUSALEM - Israeli drug maker Teva Pharmaceutical Industries on Thursday reported a third-quarter loss as it proceeds with an aggressive cost-cutting program and adjusts to declines in key product ca...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear a deported man’s claim that the five years he spent in immigration custody amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. Alvin Brown arrived in Can...

The Supreme Court of Canada will deliver a decision Friday in one of Canada’s bitterest interprovincial feuds - the notorious 1969 Churchill Falls hydro deal between Quebec and Newfoundland and ...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government appears set to kill a Liberal bill that would ban discrimination on the basis of weight and body size. Liberal Leader Jon Gerrard introd...

CALGARY- TransCanada says it will go ahead with a $1.5-billion expansion of its Nova Gas Transmission System. The plan includes approximately 197 kilometres of large diameter pipeline, three compressi...

CALGARY- Suncor Energy is reporting third-quarter operating income of 1.5-billion dollars, an 80-per-cent increase over the same period a year earlier. The earnings amount to 96 cents per share, in li...

YELLOWKNIFE - Two cabinet ministers in the Northwest Territories have survived votes on whether they should be expelled from cabinet. Glen Abernethy will keep his job in Health and Social Services and...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear former NHL great Guy Lafleur’s bid to seek damages stemming from an arrest several years ago. Lafleur was seeking financial compensation follow...

CALGARY – Canadian Natural Resources reported a third-quarter profit of $1.80 billion, up from $684 million a year ago. The oil and gas producer says the profit amounted to $1.47 per diluted sha...