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WASHINGTON - As a grieving Florida community demanded action on guns, President Donald Trump on Tuesday directed the Justice Department to move to ban devices like the rapid-fire bump stocks used in l...

A tip from a local resident led to Mounties arresting two people in a stolen vehicle last week near Pine Lake. It was just before 6 p.m. last Thursday when Innisfail RCMP received a call about a suspi...

The owner of Safeway and other grocery brands is buying the drugstore chain Rite Aid as retailers continue to plunge deeper into health care and adjust to swiftly changing shopping habits. Albertsons ...

HELSINKI - Danish royals and officials on Tuesday attended a private funeral for Denmark’s late Prince Henrik, husband of Queen Margrethe, at a Copenhagen chapel. The queen, Prime Minister Lars ...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s 9,300 public school teachers could launch job action as early as Thursday if they endorse an illegal strike in an attempt to derail the province’s sweeping educatio...

MUMBAI, India - Some of India’s biggest companies say they will invest more than $250 million in Canada, in everything from pulp mills to pharmaceuticals and the IT sector. Canadian companies, m...

MONCTON, N.B. - A program that helps international students to stay and work in Nova Scotia will be adopted by the three other Atlantic provinces as they try to grow their population. Federal Immigrat...

TEHRAN, Iran - Iranian search-and-rescue teams on Tuesday offered the first images of the site of an airplane crash in southern Iran that killed 65 people, with officials hoping to reach the aircraft&...

Seven stories in the news for Tuesday, Feb. 20 --- VIRTUE AND MOIR CAP CAREER IN A GOLDEN GLOW Canadian ice dance darlings Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir are going out on top, ending their illustrious ca...

TORONTO - With roughly three months before a spring election, Ontario’s governing Liberals are using the last legislative session to push back against any state that adopts Buy American provisio...