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Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Aug. 29 --- FREELAND CALLS NORTH KOREAN MISSILE TEST RECKLESS: Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says North Korea’s latest provocative missile...

MONTREAL - Canada’s two largest airlines have cancelled scores of flights, affecting thousands of passengers, due to the massive hurricane that has flooded parts of Texas. Calgary-based WestJet ...

MONTREAL - A well-known left-wing activist who was arrested at a Quebec City demonstration and then released has been rearrested. Quebec City police say in a news release an arrest warrant was issued ...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick RCMP say a 40-year-old woman has been charged in the ongoing investigation of outlaw motorcycle gangs in the province. Marie Antonette Bugay was arrested Tuesday and later ...

DARTMOUTH, N.S. - The future of lithium-ion battery longevity - a key component in a world without fossil fuels - may lie in an unassuming, bunker-style building in a Halifax-area industrial park. Dow...

OTTAWA - Canada’s national housing agency says new regulations introduced last fall decreased the size of the country’s insured mortgage market by about 33 per cent year-over-year in the s...

Two Ontario men are on their way to Houston to help a family member who has been forced from her home by flooding in the hurricane-battered city. Bill Hamilton and Pat Quirk left Guelph, Ont., on Mond...

GRANBY, Que. - Quebec public health officials are trying to determine the source of contamination that is causing an abnormally high number of cases of legionnaires’ disease in a town east of Mo...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Organizers say as many as 100,000 people are expected as the much-watched Chase the Ace draw ends Wednesday night in a church hall outside St. John’s. The provincial gov...

OTTAWA - The estate of a Chicago photographer whose vivid street scenes have won her posthumous plaudits is asking a Canadian court to prohibit a Toronto gallery from showing or selling her work. Vivi...