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Boston's first retail pot shop and Massachusetts' first minority-owned marijuana business was approved Thursday, more than a year after the first shops opened elsewhere in the state. The state's Canna...

Shares in Twitter jumped Thursday after the social media company said revenue and user numbers exceeded forecasts in the latest quarter, though profit fell as expenses rose. The San Francisco-based te...

OTTAWA - The federal privacy czar is asking a judge to declare that Facebook broke Canada's law governing how the private sector can use personal information. Privacy commissioner ...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia man says he's "really hurt" that the Canadian government is not doing more to get permanent residents out of the city at the centre of a new cor...

TORONTO - A police officer had no right to enter a condo rented to an Airbnb guest who found a video camera hidden in a clock pointed at the bed, an Ontario judge has ruled. The decision effectively e...

GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - A psychiatrist who assessed Lionel Desmond two days before he fatally shot his family and himself says the former soldier showed no signs he was planning to hur...

MONTREAL - Quebec's hydro utility, the city of Montreal and McGill University are among the public bodies in the province that employ the most people earning six-figure salaries, a...

The federal government has chartered a second flight to bring Canadians home from the centre of the new coronavirus outbreak next week. Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne s...

MONTREAL - Health Canada and its provincial counterpart in Quebec are investigating a widely disseminated Imperial Tobacco advertisement on vaping to see whether it violates advertising laws...

GUERNSEY, Sask. - A freight train derailed in rural Saskatchewan on Thursday morning and residents were being evacuated from the area. The train jumped the tracks about 6:15 a.m. near G...