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OTTAWA - The union representing air traffic controllers says Nav Canada is mulling layoffs even if it receives a possible bailout from Ottawa. Doug Best, who heads the Canadian Air Traffic Control Ass...

NEW YORK - Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen are teaming up for an eight-episode Spotify podcast series, swapping stories about their upbringings and even a White House singalong around a piano. The ...

OTTAWA - A mandatory three-day hotel quarantine for most travellers landing at Canadian airports got off to a rough start on Monday, as some passengers complained of long waits to access the hotel-boo...

RICHMOND, Va. - State lawmakers gave final approval Monday to a bill that will end capital punishment in Virginia, a dramatic turnaround for a state that has executed more people in its history than a...

TORONTO - OverActive Media has released details of its plan for a new entertainment venue at Exhibition Place. The esports company, home to the Toronto Defiant and Ultra teams, says the project is wor...

WASHINGTON - China, climate change and Joe Biden's Buy American measures are likely to dominate when the U.S. president meets with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Tuesday's virtual conversation between...

OTTAWA - Two vaccine developers in Canada say a lack of federal funding early in the pandemic kept homegrown vaccines from moving as quickly as international versions. John Lewis, the CEO of Entos Pha...

GENEVA - The U.N.'s top human rights body has opened its first and highest-level meeting of 2021, amid growing concerns on issues including the military coup in Myanmar, the arrest of Russian oppositi...

KINSHASA, Congo - The Italian ambassador to Congo, an Italian carabineri police officer and their Congolese driver were killed Monday when gunmen attacked a U.N. convoy going to visit a school in east...

Alberta is in court fighting against Ottawa's law on environmental assessment. Arguments in Alberta's Court of Appeal are expected to last all week. The Alberta government calls the Impact Assessment ...