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New York City’s top police detective says the department has gathered considerable evidence in the rape investigation of Harvey Weinstein. But it’s up to the district attorney whether the ...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s Liberal government says it will table the 2018-19 provincial budget on March 20. Premier Stephen McNeil has said the province intends to present its third consecutive bal...

OTTAWA - Jean-Gabriel Pageau is the type of hockey player who would play goal if you asked him to. Fortunately, he’s been given an assignment much more to his liking. With the departure of Deric...

NEWMARKET, Ont. - Police and the family of a woman struck and killed while crossing a street in a town north of Toronto are appealing for witnesses to come forward. Canadian author and columnist Gordo...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer for the man charged with stealing Frances McDormand’s Academy Award said Wednesday that he and his client plan to “forcefully and aggressively resist” the alle...

EDMONTON - A Edmonton homeless man whose spontaneous piano performance was viewed on the internet by millions of people has died. Ryan Arcand, 46, died last weekend in a supportive housing complex whe...

HALIFAX - A dispute over the federal government’s decision to award a multimillion-dollar Arctic surf clam fishing licence to a Nova Scotia company continued to fester Wednesday, as Federal Fish...

TORONTO - A former Somali child refugee will have to wait two weeks to find out whether his deportation hearing will proceed, an adjudicator ruled Wednesday. At an immigration hearing in Toronto, a la...

NEW YORK - Clustered around a touchscreen at the Sept. 11 museum, a group of high school students inscribed a message that began, “#neveragain.” The sentiment fit where they were, but also...

REGINA - The father of a young Indigenous man who was killed on a Saskatchewan farm says he is heartbroken the Crown will not appeal the acquittal of the man accused in the fatal shooting. Last month,...