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Beloeil-Chambly If it's true the Bloc Quebecois has rebuilt and regained its footing following eight years in the political wilderness, then party leader Yves-Francois Blanchet needs to win his seat, ...

Becancour-Nicolet-Saurel The longest-serving member of the House is from a party that was only supposed to be around for the time it took to sever Quebec's ties with the rest of Canada. But 28 years l...

MONTREAL - Support for Quebec independence is at or near historic lows, and yet the Bloc Quebecois - a federal party working to break the province off from Canada - is feeling good about its chan...

OTTAWA - Monday's English-language debate may open a window on how the major party leaders would try to steer Canada through a world of economic and political turbulence. Not a moment too soon, say fo...

OTTAWA - Sociology professor Hassan Diab, who spent a decade fighting allegations of terrorism, is now battling in court for a copy of his Canadian citizenship certificate. The 65-year-old O...

LOS ANGELES - Rapper 21 Savage believes immigrants like him who lived in America illegally as children should automatically become U.S. citizens. The Grammy-nominated artist who was held this year in ...

MEDICINE HAT, Alta. - Scientists have found fossil evidence from the last ice age of a sabre-toothed cat in southern Alberta - the northern-most record of the predator. A study by the Royal Ontario Mu...

MONTREAL - There's little doubt about what greeting customers will hear when they enter Dave Plant's soon-to-be opened Cafe Bonjour/Hi, even as the Quebec government looks for ways to ban the popular ...

BAGHDAD - Security forces opened fire directly at hundreds of anti-government demonstrators Friday in central Baghdad, killing at least 17 protesters and injuring dozens, hours after Iraq's top Shiite...

Hong Kong's embattled leader insisted a new measure banning masks at rallies was not a move toward authoritarian rule or at the behest of the Chinese government, which signalled its approval shortly a...