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HALIFAX - Ottawa has posted a tender asking engineering firms to assess how climate change and extreme weather will affect some of Atlantic Canada’s major ferry terminals, airports and the Confe...

KAMPALA, Uganda - To chants of “People power! Our power!” Ugandan pop star turned government critic Bobi Wine was freed on bail Monday, ending days of incarceration during which he and som...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 08-27-2018

Five stories in the news for Monday, Aug. 27 --- B.C. WILDFIRE SEASON SECOND WORST IN HISTORY A year after the worst season for wildfires in British Columbia’s history, government statistics ind...

PARIS - A French prosecutor said Moroccan singer Saad Lamjarred is being held in police custody on suspicion of committing a rape in the town of Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera. Draguignan prosecut...

CALGARY - Paralyzed Humboldt Broncos player Ryan Straschnitzki is on his hands and knees trying a skill he hasn’t had to practise for 18 years - how to crawl. Straschnitzki, with the assistance ...

VANCOUVER - Campfires, cigarettes, flares and car accidents are some of the ways humans have likely started more than 400 wildfires in British Columbia this season. As wildfires blaze across the provi...

MONTREAL - Over the summer with the kids away, construction crews have hastily been erecting temporary, metal-clad extensions to aging school buildings across Montreal, to help cope with ever-increasi...

The federal government has stated its plans to fulfill one of the key calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) — the implementation of a new statutory holiday. Two pote...

Sunday’s Games MLB American League Chicago White Sox 7 Detroit 2 Tampa Bay 9 Boston 1 Oakland 6 Minnesota 2 Cleveland 12 Kansas City 5 Houston 3 L.A. Angels 1 N.Y. Yankees 5 Baltimore 3 National...