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OTTAWA- A portrait of the first year of the legalized cannabis market shows Albertans spent $196-million in online and retail store sales.The Statistics Canada report shows that store sales worked out...

EDMONTON- Players on Alberta's five Western Hockey League teams will no longer be legally entitled to a minimum wage after the province amended its labour code.The United Conservative government says ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump lashed out at 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday, a day after she was named by Time as its Person of the Year, calling her selection "ridiculou...

LONDON - Britons who have endured three years of wrangling over their country's messy divorce from the European Union cast ballots Thursday in an election billed as a way out of the Brexit stalemate a...

BRUSSELS - Greenpeace activists scaled the European Union's new headquarters in Brussels on Thursday and unfurled a huge banner warning of a "climate emergency," hours before the bloc's leaders gather...

VANCOUVER - Metro Vancouver's transit system dodged a major disruption for the second time in less than two weeks on Tuesday as a tentative agreement was reached to keep SkyTrains running. The Ca...

EDMONTON- The Opposition NDP is renewing its bid for an ethics probe into the firing of Alberta's elections watchdog who had been investigating Premier Jason Kenney's party.NDP Leader Rachel Notley sa...

Canadian Matt Campbell is expecting a wild scene when he takes centre stage this weekend at the William Hill World Darts Championship in London. Take a packed house at the 3,000-capacity Ale...

CALGARY- A survey by the Alberta Motor Association suggests just 19% of drivers in the province feel confident in the winter driving abilities of other drivers on the road.At the same time, 92% of tho...

OTTAWA - The federal ethics law has put a crimp in Jane Philpott's plan to put her experience as a former minister of health and Indigenous services to work for the benefit of a northern Ontario&...