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KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Chris Williams is doing some extra work after a training camp session, cutting and stopping to test his surgically repaired knee under a trainer’s watchful eye. A few metres awa...

OTTAWA - Manitoba MP Niki Ashton is expecting a baby in November, the NDP leadership hopeful announced Monday. Ashton is one of six candidates seeking the party’s top job - a leadership race sch...

HALIFAX - (NSElxn) Nova Scotia’s party leaders fanned out across the province Monday trying to sway undecided voters in the final hours before the provincial election. The NDP and Progressive Co...

BLACKFALDS – A 31-year-old man is due in court Thursday after being arrested following a police pursuit earlier this week. On Monday, shortly before 6 p.m., RCMP were alerted by the public about...

TORONTO - Maxime Bernier was clutching his partner’s hand so hard his knuckles were white, his brown leather brogues nervously tapping the floor. Across the aisle, Andrew Scheer’s daughter...

WHITEHORSE - The head of a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls says she understands why families in Whitehorse are anxious as the process begins. Many family members ...

OTTAWA - Women accessing services at abortion clinics in Ontario will be protected by safe zones around the facilities under new legislation planned by the provincial government in response to several...

TORONTO - Public consultations on Canada’s first national law for disabled people have identified high unemployment rates, inaccessible buildings and barriers in transportation as some of the ke...

MONTREAL - Former Quebec student leader Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois strolled to victory for Quebec solidaire in a provincial byelection in the Montreal riding of Gouin on Monday. Nadeau-Dubois, 26, dominate...

CALGARY - The Conference Board of Canada says a slow recovery in the oil and gas sector will allow Alberta and Saskatchewan to emerge from recession and lead the provinces in economic growth this year...