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Quebec’s director of criminal and penal prosecutions says no charges will be laid against longtime provincial politician Pierre Paradis. The former Liberal cabinet minister was facing allegation...

BOWEN ISLAND, B.C. - It took nearly 11 hours, but a 17-year-old girl from Kelowna, B.C., has completed her gruelling goal of swimming around an island off the coast of Vancouver. Instead of resting, E...

OTTAWA - Gov. Gen. David Johnston apologized publicly Monday for referring to Indigenous Peoples as immigrants as he bestowed honours on 29 people - including the frontman of the Tragically Hip - for ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis will visit Chile and Peru in 2018, the Vatican announced Monday. The Holy See said Francis will visit Chile from Jan. 15-18, then head to Peru, where he’ll stay until...

ROBERVAL, Que. - Longtime Conservative MP Denis Lebel is quitting politics after nearly 10 years in the House of Commons. The former cabinet minister made the announcement in his Quebec riding of Lac-...

PITTSBURGH - A Canadian who helped save a man from falling down a ravine is among 19 people being honoured with a medal from the Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Hero Fund Commission. Robert Conant, who is f...

NORRISTOWN, Pa. - The Latest on Bill Cosby’s sexual assault trial (all times local): 3:50 p.m. A judge will hear arguments on whether the names of the jurors at Bill Cosby’s sexual assault...

PARIS - The Latest on Paris security operation on Champs-Elysees (all times local): 5:30 p.m. France’s interior minister says that a driver who rammed a car carrying explosives into a police con...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday struck down part of a law that bans offensive trademarks, ruling in favour of an Asian-American rock band called the Slants and giving a major boost to the Was...

ISLAMABAD - The 600 people of the Dawoodi bohra community were supposed to be gathering to have food together in a hall soon after breaking a 15 1/2 -hour fast on Sunday. Instead, those who gathered a...