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OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not delve into questions about the process for disciplining federally appointed judges. The top court has declined to hear the Canadian Ju...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - The city of Prague, the Czech capital, approved Thursday a partnership agreement with the capital of Taiwan, Taipei. The move comes two months after Prague revoked a similar s...

WASHINGTON - House Democrats and the White House announced a deal on a modified North American trade pact, handing President Donald Trump a major Capitol Hill win Tuesday on the same day that impeachm...

WASHINGTON - U.S. wholesale prices were unchanged in November as the rise in energy costs slowed following a big gain in the previous month. The Labor Department said Thursday that the flat reading in...

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...