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HALIFAX - Women make up fewer than a fifth of Canadian mayors, and a group of female leaders say men in power need to pass the baton if such inequities are to change. Sevaun Palvetzian, CEO of Toronto...

SAULT STE MARIE, Ont. - Doug Ford won’t say whether he’ll march in Toronto’s annual Pride parade if elected Ontario premier, prompting his rivals to question the Tory leader’s ...

OTTAWA - The federal government will provide $50 million to Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba to help pay for some of the costs they have borne as a result of the influx of asylum seekers illegally crossin...

MONTREAL - U.S. President Donald Trump took to Twitter a day after imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum to call out Canada’s softwood lumber industry, a sector that could provide insight for o...

An exhaustive survey of the world’s most southerly polar bears has found a significant drop in their numbers that scientists fear could be climate change finally taking its toll on a population ...

Big Picture By Bill Curry Italy Crisis Subsides, Trade Tensions Mount A political impasse in Italy and the possibility of fresh elections put markets on edge Monday, with Italian bonds and stocks sell...

WASHINGTON - The Defence Department is poised to take over background investigations for the federal government, using increased automation and high-tech analysis to tighten controls and tackle an eno...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has appointed Mohamed-Iqbal Ravalia, a family doctor and community leader, as a senator for Newfoundland and Labrador. Ravalia fled apartheid-era Zimbabwe and se...

BOLT Transit is living to see another day. Lacombe city council voted 4-3 this week against giving one year's notice to scrap the regional bus service. The deal with Red Deer Transit for the BOLT, whi...

TORONTO - Only the New Democrats can prevent the Progressive Conservatives under Doug Ford from forming government in Ontario next week, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath said Friday in her most direct pitch ...