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OTTAWA - An international rights group urged the federal government Friday to finally break its silence and loudly and specifically speak out against Saudi Arabia for jailing women who have been fight...

FREDERICTON - A Fredericton man accused of fatally shooting four people in the city last August is one step closer to a possible trial. Matthew Raymond is charged with four counts of first-degree murd...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says his long-promised cut to the provincial sales tax will take effect July 1, even if the opposition delays the legislation that enacts it. Opposition par...

TORONTO - The accessibility law that took effect in Ontario 14 years ago and has served as a blueprint for similar legislation in other parts of Canada has fallen well short of its goals and continues...

Ottawa Police helped dig an elderly man out of his home Thursday after the city’s excessively snowy winter left him housebound for weeks. The man in his 70s had heat and electricity and access t...

OTTAWA - The spotlight in the SNC-Lavalin affair has shifted to rookie Justice Minister David Lametti now that a court has rejected the company’s bid to force the public prosecutor to pursue an ...

LOS ANGELES - The producers of “The Simpsons” are removing a classic episode that featured the voice of Michael Jackson after HBO aired a documentary in which two men claim they were sexua...

HALIFAX - Convicted spy Jeffrey Delisle, who sold Western military secrets to Russia, has been granted full parole. A decision from the Parole Board of Canada said it was satisfied that the risk posed...

The unemployment rate for the region that includes the Peace Country went up slightly in February, but this area is still doing better than most of Alberta. Statistics Canada says the unemployment rat...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - Puerto Rican singer Farruko has pleaded guilty to not declaring nearly $52,000 in cash discovered in his luggage and shoes when he arrived in the U.S. territory from the Domini...