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LONDON - Home-grown talents Dua Lipa, Anne-Marie and George Ezra led the nominations for the U.K. music industry’s Brit Awards during a ceremony that opened Wednesday with a high-voltage perform...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - As Nunavut approaches the 20th anniversary of its creation, the territory has tabled a mostly stand-pat budget that plans modest spending increases to fight some of its social probl...

HALIFAX - At 30 years of age, Syrian refugee Kawthar Barho had seen her share of suffering and death before she came to Canada with her family. Together with her husband Ebraheim and their children, s...

EDMONTON - Opposition Leader Jason Kenney says if he wins the spring election, he will try to cancel Alberta’s $3.7-billion deal with Canada’s two largest railways to ship more oil by rail...

OTTAWA - A federal plan to spend $638 million on housing for Indigenous people living in cities and urban areas won’t provide enough money or address the basic causes of Indigenous homelessness,...

NEW YORK - On a year where one of the lead Oscar contenders is titled “The Favourite,” the 91st Academy Awards lack a clear front-runner. Normally a fairly predictable process with one or ...

SALT LAKE CITY - Gwyneth Paltrow said Wednesday in a court filing that a man who accused her in a lawsuit of crashing into him at a Utah ski resort was actually the culprit in the collision and is try...

NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. - A Saskatchewan man who triggered an Amber Alert when he stole a running SUV with a disabled girl in the back seat has been sentenced to 31 months in jail. Johnathan Gunville ...

A Calgary man has started an online petition with the hope of reversing a decision which grants day parole to a woman imprisoned for the death of his little girl. Ceira McGrath was 18 months old when ...

A 60-year-old man in Calgary is accused of sexually assaulting two teenagers, starting when both were about 12 years old. Police say the assaults allegedly occurred between 2011 and 2016. They say the...