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MONTREAL - Members of Quebec’s three main opposition parties met with the justice minister Monday to discuss how to reform the way Quebec adjudicates sexual assault cases. The meeting came amid ...

KELOWNA, B.C. - Free agent defenceman Josh Gorges retired on Monday after 13 seasons in the National Hockey League. The 34-year-old native of Kelowna, B.C., announced his decision in his hometown, whe...

OTTAWA – Montreal MP David Lametti is becoming Canada’s new justice minister as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffles his cabinet to deal with the sudden departure of Nova Scotia MP Scott...

TOPEKA, Kan. - Kansas’ new Democratic governor called Monday for the state to “forge a new chapter” of bipartisanship, arguing as she took office that the Statehouse had lost the ...

LONDON - Van Morrison has performed one of his best-loved songs at the funeral of his longtime friend, the historian and politician Ian Adamson. Morrison sang “Into the Mystic” - one of hi...

FALLS CHURCH, Va. - Actress Rose McGowan pleaded no contest Monday to a misdemeanour drug charge in Virginia after cocaine was found in a wallet she left behind at Dulles International Airport two yea...

MIAMI - A Florida man got a slithery shock when he popped open the hood of his car and found a boa constrictor resting on the engine. Ernst Dimanche tells WSVN he had just dropped his kids off at scho...

NEW YORK - Calgary Flames defenceman Mark Giordano, St. Louis Blues goaltender Jordan Binnington and Pittsburgh Penguins winger Jake Guentzel have been named the NHL’s three stars for last week....

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to temporarily suspend a lower court’s bombshell ruling in a sexual-assault case that the military justice system is unconstitutional. A five-jud...

HALIFAX - More help is on the way for a Halifax-bound container ship that has been burning off Canada’s East Coast since Jan. 3. A spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard says two more fire-fighting ...