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LONDON - British police made 21 arrests Tuesday during a series of raids against a suspected people smuggling network that is accused of bringing hundreds of migrants across the English Channel. Offic...

OTTAWA - School districts, a police department and the National Hockey League are just some of the groups preparing for the new gender-neutral lyrics of O Canada, which could get Rideau Hall’s s...

Seven stories in the news for Tuesday, Feb. 6 --- CAROLINE MULRONEY LAYS OUT SOME PRIORITIES Cutting income taxes and hydro rates are a couple of ideas Caroline Mulroney proposed last night while disc...

OTTAWA - The federal government will spend $284 million over the next five years to enforce new laws protecting habitat wherever fish are present, Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc says. A number of ...

VANCOUVER - Technology is allowing researchers in British Columbia to study blooms of jellyfish and their impact on the ocean in a whole new way. University of B.C. oceanography Prof. Brian Hunt and u...

VICTORIA - Allowing people to sue for pain and suffering in car accidents has been viewed as a fundamental principle in British Columbia, but that changed Tuesday when the government joined CanadaR...

MONTREAL - Quebec’s legislature reopened on Tuesday for its last session before the fall’s provincial election and, on the same day, a new poll indicated almost 70 per cent of francophone ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - SpaceX’s big new rocket blasted off Tuesday on its first test flight, carrying a red electric sports car aiming for an endless road trip past Mars. The Falcon Heavy rose f...

MALE, Maldives - Three Maldives Supreme Court justices on Tuesday annulled their own order to free a group of imprisoned opposition politicians after two of the court’s justices were arrested am...

RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territory - A former Palestinian intelligence chief and the head of the West Bank bar association are suing the Palestinian self-rule government after a purported whistleblower a...