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VANCOUVER - Federal NDP leadership hopeful Jagmeet Singh has clinched the backing of veteran politician and former leadership rival, Peter Julian. Julian says Singh represents the diversity the NDP ne...

VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has closed the door on decriminalizing illicit drugs to combat a national overdose crisis but British Columbia’s addictions minister says unprecedented ...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Social services officials in British Columbia’s southern Interior hope at least one large centre for wildfire evacuees can be closed this weekend, despite warnings that the wild...

INDIAN BROOK, N.S. - It’s been eight years since the body of Tanya Brooks was discovered in the basement window well of a Halifax school. The murder of the 36-year-old mother of five from Millbr...

THUNDER BAY, Ont. - The police chief of Thunder Bay, Ont., is now expected to stand trial on charges of breach of trust and attempting to obstruct justice as early as December. Chief J.P. Levesque wai...

GRANDE PRAIRIE – Two women have died in separate fires over a 24-hour period in Grande Prairie in northwestern Alberta. Officials say one woman died this morning when a holiday trailer parked ou...

PARIS - Kate Millett, the activist, artist and educator whose bestselling work “Sexual Politics” was a landmark of cultural criticism and a manifesto for the modern feminist movement, has ...

TORONTO - Canadians were captivated by the play of Denis Shapovalov at the Rogers Cup in Montreal. The rest of the world took notice at the U.S. Open in New York. The 18-year-old went from playing low...

HALIFAX - As the new school year begins, it appears most Nova Scotia school boards will have hired enough staff for the Liberal government’s promised expansion of pre-primary classes for four-ye...

VEHICLE VANDALIZED, ROBBERY REPORTED On August 30 Drayton Valley RCMP responded to a call involving a peacock yard decoration that was stolen from a homeowner's yard. The decoration is valued at $140 ...