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OTTAWA - “There were court challenges in these other disputes. We have won them all.” - Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr on April 25. - Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr has been offe...

THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The International Court of Justice on Thursday ordered Pakistan not to execute an Indian naval officer convicted of espionage and terrorism, a case that has further strained r...

HALIFAX - As Air Canada Flight 624 made its final, ill-fated approach toward Halifax’s main airport in a raging blizzard, no one in the cockpit was checking the plane’s altitude or distanc...

HALIFAX - Liberal Premier Stephen McNeil fended off multiple attacks on his record Thursday as Nova Scotia’s major-party leaders clashed over health care, education and the economy during the fi...

OTTAWA - The foremost constitutional authority in Canada once argued that random breath testing - similar to what the Liberals proposed to crack down on impaired driving - would infringe Charter right...

Nine stories in the news for Thursday, May 18 --- CANADA BACKS CALL FOR MAGNITSKY ACT Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says the government has agreed to create a so-called Magnitsky Act to e...

MEADOW LAKE, Sask. - A teen gunman who killed four people at a home and in a school in northern Saskatchewan told police he had regrets about the shooting. Dayne and Drayden Fontaine were killed at th...

Ottawa is completely within its rights to impose a carbon tax on any province because protecting the environment falls under federal jurisdiction, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said Thursday....

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has hired a former top public servant to study options for more robust oversight of Canada’s border agency - the latest sign the agency could soon have new people...

TORONTO - Canada’s money-laundering watchdog is studying the use of crowdfunding platforms by suspected terrorists and says in an internal study that the reporting protocol poses a “signif...