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OTTAWA - Concerns about potential delays in the approval of life-saving medical evacuations are circling around Canada’s United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali, which in recent days conduct...

Thanks to a grant announced this week, The Lending Cupboard is more than halfway to its fundraising goal of $500,000. The organization, which provides medical equipment to central Albertans in their t...

SOUTH BEND, Ind. - A museum official who questioned “Star Wars” actor Adam Driver’s recent comments about remembering frequent Ku Klux Klan rallies during his youth in northern India...

FREDERICTON - The parties are ready, the signs are printed and the buses are fuelled up. The campaign for New Brunswick’s provincial election officially begins Thursday with the writ drop. Chief...

TORONTO - A professional urban planner considered a credible, if long-shot challenger to Toronto’s incumbent mayor in October’s municipal vote is set to hold her first campaign rally Thurs...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s coroners service says 134 people died of illicit-drug overdoses in July, a 25 per cent increase from June. The latest fatalities are the second-highest figures of a...

ORLANDO, Fla. - The Walt Disney Co. is offering to pay full tuition for hourly workers who want to earn a college degree, finish a high school diploma or learn a new skill, the entertainment giant sai...

TORONTO - Aaron Sanchez was reluctant to share how he hurt the middle finger on his pitching hand when it happened two months ago. Now that he’s poised to return to the major league mound, he...

After a few days of reprieve from thick smoke pouring into Alberta from wildfires burning across British Columbia, smoke is once again expected to settle into the Drayton Valley area. Environment Cana...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says she’s “very encouraged” by signals from Washington that the United States and Mexico are close to figuring out their bilatera...