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HALIFAX - The commission of inquiry probing the mass shooting in Nova Scotia that claimed 22 lives in 2020 is again delaying public hearings, saying they are now expected to begin late next month. The...

ATLANTA (AP) - President Joe Biden says that he supports changing Senate rules in order to pass voting rights legislation, declaring that changing the rules would be to protect the "heart and soul of ...

OTTAWA - The Black Health Alliance says Quebec's proposal to bring in a financial penalty for unvaccinated residents risks further entrenching inequities in Canada's pandemic response and eroding trus...

FREDERICTON - Farmers on Prince Edward Island say there's no scientific basis for a suspension of exports of Island potatoes to the United States and it needs to be lifted now, but Canadian officials ...

OTTAWA - Six months after the federal government promised to help thousands of Afghan women leaders, human rights activists and journalists flee to Canada, the first planeload has landed. Immigration ...

ROME (AP) - Pope Francis grew up listening to the opera on the radio, is a fan of Argentine tango and thinks Mozart "lifts you to God." But it still came as a something of a shock to see the 85-year-o...

Red Deer RCMP can confirm that Stacey Francis has been located. Mounties thank the media and the public for their assistance.

Scientists are seeing signals that COVID-19s alarming omicron wave may have peaked in Britain and is about to do the same in the U.S., at which point cases may start dropping off dramatically. The rea...

OTTAWA - A federal judge says RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki flouted the law by failing to respond promptly to a watchdog report about alleged spying on anti-oil protesters. In a newly released decisi...

OTTAWA - Canada is to spearhead a 10-year drive by the United Nations to revive and protect worldwide Indigenous languages, including endangered tongues such as Michif, the Mtis language. Aluki Kotier...