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OTTAWA - The future of resource development across Canada depends on the federal government responding correctly to a court ruling that has stalled the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, Justin Trudea...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil says a hospital’s decision to turn away a young sexual assault victim was unacceptable, and the province is trying to determine who is responsible. R...

TORONTO - The mayors of four Ontario cities are urging the federal government to take over a basic income pilot project that’s being cut short by the province, arguing the program provides valua...

The search for two young men believed to be behind a shooting that wounded three people in a small southern Ontario city stretched into a second day on Friday as investigators worked to identify the s...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government discriminated against people in wheelchairs by failing to enforce a regulation requiring restaurants to have accessible bathrooms, a human rights board of inquiry ...

There was a jump in the Red Deer area unemployment rate last month. Numbers released Friday morning by Statistics Canada shows our region's jobless rate reached 6.7 per cent in August, up from 5.6 in ...

TRAIL, B.C. - Thousands of insurance claims have been made in the wake of two acid spills along a southeastern British Columbia highway earlier this year that damaged vehicles. Insurance Corporation o...

HALIFAX - A British sailor on trial for allegedly sexually assaulting a Halifax woman has been hospitalized, delaying proceedings in Nova Scotia Supreme Court yet again. Darren Smalley and Simon Radfo...

WICHITA, Kan. - Former Dallas Cowboys running back Joseph Randle has been arrested in Kansas on suspicion of rape. Records show that Randle was booked into Sedgwick County Jail at around 3:40 a.m. Fri...

FREDERICTON - A breast cancer survivor and advocate had a sweet victory Friday: She saw the two leading parties adopt her cause as platform planks for the Sept. 24 New Brunswick election. “IR...