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OTTAWA - Anyone watching the televised proceedings in the House of Commons one night earlier this month might have thought they’d mistakenly tuned in to a travelogue. One after another, dozens o...

WINNIPEG - A Statistics Canada report says 46 per cent of all incarcerated youth across Canada were Indigenous in 2016-17. Here is a breakdown by province of admissions to custody of Aboriginal youth ...

BEND, Ore. - In a dense forest at the base of Mount Bachelor, two wildlife biologists slowly walked toward a small cage trap they hoped would contain a rare red fox species. Jamie Bowles, an Oregon De...

HALLE, Germany - Borna Coric defeated defending champion Roger Federer 7-6 (6), 3-6, 6-2 to win the Gerry Weber Open final on Sunday. The 21-year-old Croat saved three of the four break points he face...

The candidate to fill the NDP slot on the Drayton Valley-Devon ticket has been set, as the 2019 provincial election grows closer. Kieran Quirke was nominated as the Alberta NDP's candidate for Drayton...

FREDERICTON - A telegenic, social media-savvy Liberal leader known for big deficits is pitted against an austerity-minded rookie Tory leader just beginning to make an impression on voters. In what can...

BAMAKO, Mali - When Canada’s first peacekeepers to this West African nation arrive at their new home Sunday, they will find a country riven by rampant poverty, internal divisions and strife - bu...

GAO, Mali - Canadian troops started to take up their positions in the world’s most dangerous peacekeeping mission on Sunday, as a dozen Forces members flew into an isolated United Nations’...

DOON, Iowa - An estimated 230,000 gallons (870,619 litres) of crude oil spilled into floodwaters in the northwestern corner of Iowa following a train derailment, a railroad official said Saturday. BNS...

TORONTO - The $7 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw was claimed by a ticket holder in Quebec, while the guaranteed $1 million prize went to a ticket holder in Ontario. The jackpo...