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VANCOUVER - Drug users trying to quit heroin are gathered for a meeting in Vancouver with one mission in mind: to support each other through the struggles of a reformulated treatment drug they say has...

The members of Radiohead say they are “appalled” that charges stemming from a fatal concert stage collapse in Toronto in 2012 were stayed. On Tuesday, a judge ruled the justice system had ...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Sept. 7 --- QUEBECER DESCRIBES IRMA AS TERRIFYING: A Quebec man living on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin is calling hurricane Irma the most terrifying...

OTTAWA - Boeing Co. has no plans to back down in its trade dispute with Canadian rival Bombardier - a high-stakes, cross-border conflict that the U.S. transportation giant says could have long-term ra...

TORONTO - As the new academic year gets underway, students, teachers and parents are gearing up to deal with one of the education system’s more controversial elements: split-level classes. Some ...

TORONTO - Serina Manek has been living in Leslieville for seven years, and has watched it go from a rough-around-the-edges area in Toronto’s east end, to one of the city’s most desirable n...

MONTREAL - Animal-welfare groups have renewed their calls for a ban on horse-drawn carriages in Montreal after another horse collapsed in the street over the long weekend. The animal was found lying o...

HALIFAX - As the new school year begins, it appears most Nova Scotia school boards will have hired enough staff for the Liberal government’s promised expansion of pre-primary classes for four-ye...

Toronto-born Graydon Carter is leaving Vanity Fair after 25 years as the magazine’s editor. In an article on its website, accompanied by a portrait from famed photographer Annie Leibovitz, Vanit...

CALGARY - A 38-year-old disabled woman who died while under the care of her 70-year-old mother had not received medical treatment for the last four years of her life and weighed just over 50 pounds wh...