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NEW YORK - The crisis-management playbook is pretty simple: Get ahead of the story, update authorities and the public regularly, accept responsibility and take decisive action. Crisis-management exper...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil is refusing to say how much money has been allocated in his government’s budget to cover the costs of implementing the sale of legalized cannabis. Th...

MONTREAL - Crown prosecutors in Quebec will not lay charges against a motorist whose vehicle struck and killed a cyclist. Clement Ouimet, 18, died last October shortly after being hit as the driver at...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia will address long wait lists for hip and knee replacements, allowing an extra 4,000 people to have the surgeries in the coming year, the premier says. John Horgan said a $...

WASHINGTON - The Federal Reserve raised its key interest rate Wednesday in a vote of confidence in the U.S. economy’s durability while signalling that it plans to continue a gradual approach to ...

Military veterans filled a Red Deer courtroom Wednesday morning as a local man pleaded guilty to posing as a U.S. veteran at Remembrance Day ceremonies last year at local schools.. Peter Toth pleaded ...

PARIS - Britney Spears has landed her first high fashion modeling campaign as the new face of Paris-based Kenzo. The 36-year-old singer said she had been waiting for the “right fit and the right...

NEW YORK - Opening arguments are set for Thursday in the federal government’s efforts to block AT&T’s efforts to gobble up Time Warner in a case that could shape how you get - and how ...

TORONTO - The Canadian men’s under-18 rugby sevens team did its part to qualify for the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires later this year. The young Canadians went undefeated at a qualifying t...

TORONTO - A former Somali child refugee has been granted a brief reprieve from a deportation hearing while a judicial review of his case is conducted. The Immigration and Refugee Board in Toronto dela...