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WASHINGTON - U.S. sales of existing homes were unchanged in August, as a shortage of houses priced at less than $250,000 - a level considered to be affordable for the middle class - has become a drag ...

CHARLOTTETOWN - In what might be a moral victory for every Canadian who ever had to go to work in bad weather, a P.E.I. man has won a five-year battle to get 3.5 hours worth of pay after being unable ...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Armed Forces has reopened 23 cases of alleged sexual assault after revisiting dozens of files previously dismissed by military police as “unfounded.” The move follows...

JASPER, Alta. - Two people suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries when they were swept about 600 metres by an avalanche they triggered while climbing a mountain in Jasper National Park. Pa...

TORONTO - As Toronto prepared for a leaner local government following Ontario’s legal victory over the size of the city’s council, longtime politicians were being pitted against one anothe...

EDMONTON – Alberta is starting to stockpile marijuana but isn’t saying where it’s being kept. Finance Minister Joe Ceci says cannabis shipments have begun but he says for security re...

The World Anti-Doping Agency declared Russia’s scandal-ridden drug-fighting operation back in business Thursday, a decision designed to bring a close to one of sports’ most notorious dopin...

CALGARY – Police are investigating a Calgary art gallery heist in which thieves made off with works worth about $500,000. Investigators say last May the suspects used a saw to cut through the do...

MEDICINE HAT- With cannabis set to be legal on October 17, provinces have been working to amend their impaired driving laws to include cannabis. The laws vary from province to province. In Alberta, th...

A former editor at the New York Review of Books says he stands by his decision to publish a controversial essay written by disgraced former radio host Jian Ghomeshi. Ian Buruma told Vrij Nederland, a ...