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OTTAWA - A government-struck panel is telling the Liberals that federal coffers should dole out hundreds of millions in new spending to unleash unconventional ways of financing key social services. Th...

FORT YATES, N.D. - The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will use money donated by Boston Celtics star Kyrie Irving for drug abuse prevention and youth programs. The All-Star guard visited the Dakota reservat...

TORONTO - Kia Nurse glammed it up on the red carpet at last week’s iHeartRadio MMVAs. She spent a day last month inspiring a group of young women at a downtown Toronto court that Nike had dresse...

VANCOUVER - The Federal Court of Appeal’s decision to quash Ottawa’s approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is likely to delay the project for years, legal and political observe...

UNION TOWNSHIP, N.J. - A billboard referring to President Trump as “Our Leader The Idiot” has been removed after causing controversy in a New Jersey town. A spokeswoman for Union Township,...

COALDALE – Police say a mother and her young children were lucky to escape injury when a car smashed into their house in a southern Alberta community. RCMP in Coaldale say the family was in a di...

FREDERICTON - A unique election issue has emerged in New Brunswick: chocolate milk. The province’s Liberal government introduced a much-derided ban on chocolate milk and other sugary drinks and ...

DETROIT - The bishop who officiated Aretha Franklin’s funeral has apologized to Ariana Grande for how he touched her onstage and a joke he made about her name. Bishop Charles H. Ellis III led Fr...

The Ontario city where Sir John A. Macdonald lived and worked for years is launching public consultations on the legacy of Canada’s first prime minister in light of heightened scrutiny over his ...

Canada, U.S. Racing to Rewrite NAFTA; Emerging-Market Currencies Under Stress U.S. and Canadian negotiators have begun a last-minute sprint to complete a NAFTA rewrite before a Friday deadline set by ...