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BLACKFALDS- Shortly after midnight on January 31, the Lacombe Fire Department received a call for service in Lacombe County near RR 275 and Twp Rd 412. There was a shop and dumpster set on fire, which...

LONDON - A man who drove a van into worshippers near a London mosque, killing one man and injuring a dozen others, was sentenced Friday to at least 43 years in prison for what a judge called a crime d...

MONTREAL - Former NDP leader Tom Mulcair will be joining the political science department at Universite de Montreal later this year. The university announced Friday the longtime federal and Quebec pol...

HALIFAX - A Halifax city councillor under fire for retweeting a Canadian “ethno-nationalist” group has dismissed criticisms, even as official complaints poured into city hall Friday. ̶...

KABUL - Afghan security forces uncovered an Islamic State hideout packed with explosives and suicide vests this week in a poor western neighbourhood of the capital, Kabul. An intelligence official tol...

GENEVA - About 90 people are feared drowned after a smuggler’s boat carrying mostly Pakistani migrants capsized off Libya’s coast early Friday, the U.N.’s migration agency said. Ten ...

DRUMMONDVILLE, Que. - The family of two of the three people who died in a helicopter crash northeast of Montreal said Friday that words cannot fully describe the feelings of desolation and incomprehen...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 02-02-2018

OTTAWA - At Anthony Morgan’s law office, the calls keep coming: parents of young black men hoping their son’s marijuana possession charge will be wiped clean when the country legalizes the...

PARIS - Two French military helicopters on a training flight crashed Friday in the woods of Provence from an apparent mid-air collision, killing the five people aboard, officials said. The crash occur...