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OTTAWA - The federal government is about to announce a timeline for eradicating tuberculosis in the north. Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott and Natan Obed, head of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, o...

OTTAWA - While NATO is determined to improve its ability to predict the Kremlin’s next move, a senior Latvian commander concedes that Russian President Vladimir Putin has managed to keep the mil...

HALIFAX - Canada’s Ocean Playground could soon have three new marine conservation areas. The federal Fisheries Department announced the proposed sites off the coast of Nova Scotia on Thursday, s...

TORONTO - A grief-stricken father whose former spouse and two teenage children were killed in their suburban Ontario home last week expressed gratitude Thursday for what he called the outpouring of pu...

OTTAWA - The head of Canada’s cyberspy agency says new powers proposed by the Trudeau government would let her institution stop cyberattacks before they are launched - instead of having to sit b...

NANAIMO, B.C. - A special prosecutor in British Columbia has approved the application to have a senior municipal official in Nanaimo bound by the terms of a peace bond, the province’s prosecutio...

When the Central Alberta Child Advocacy Centre opened its doors last fall, it did so with the ultimate goal of helping children and families on their path to healing from abuse. However, the number of...

TORONTO - The second half of a panda family’s Canadian sojourn gets underway on Friday when the animals leave Toronto for a new home out west. Two giant pandas on loan from China, plus the two b...

VICTORIA - Some landlords in British are asking prospective tenants for too much personal information including credit card details, three months worth of bank statements and inquiring whether applica...

TORONTO - Ontario’s finance minister is apologizing for referring to male and female hospital workers as “eye candy” during a funding announcement in Toronto on Thursday. Charles Sou...