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OTTAWA - A Senate committee says Ottawa should put off legalizing marijuana for a year until Canada and First Nations can negotiate tax sharing, produce culturally appropriate education materials and ...

CALGARY - Brad Wall has stepped into a new job with an Alberta law firm just months after walking away from the premier’s office in Saskatchewan. Wall, who retired from politics in January, was ...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government’s efforts to streamline its budgeting process mean $7 billion in new spending commitments would be subject to far less parliamentary scrutiny - and the money coul...

NASHVILLE - The maker of the Gibson guitar, omnipresent for decades on the American music stage, is filing for bankruptcy protection after wrestling for years with debt. A pre-negotiated reorganizatio...

WASHINGTON - The two top officials in charge of security and toxic-waste cleanups at the Environmental Protection Agency have abruptly left their jobs, days after EPA administrator Scott Pruitt told l...

MIRROR- Blackfalds RCMP began several investigations began in late January and culminated in a targeted arrest made by the newly formed Rural Crime Reduction Project on April 25 in Mirror. One man is ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump’s political attacks on the FBI make America less safe because they undermine public confidence that the bureau is an “honest, competent and independent&...

SPRINGDALE, N.L. - A students group that won national attention with an unsuccessful bid to convince a small Newfoundland town to permit a rainbow crosswalk are now looking to their next move, their v...

GATINEAU, Que. - The Liberal commitment to recognizing and reinforcing Indigenous rights faced a major litmus test Tuesday as a special gathering of the Assembly of First Nations embarked on a close, ...

An application made by Red Deer RCMP in 2016 to seize a house worth $300,000 and about $14,000 cash as proceeds of crime came to its conclusion on Friday when the courts granted the forfeiture. The ap...