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OTTAWA - Despite billions of dollars in new spending over the last four years, the federal Liberals' social-development minister concedes that seniors and families seeking housing and child care ...

CALGARY - Imagine adjusting to life after serving prison time, then add mental- health struggles, addiction or homelessness. Now, throw in hepatitis C, a blood-borne virus that can cause serious liver...

LOS ANGELES - Marijuana shoppers are going to be getting a message from California regulators: Go legal. Aiming to slow illegal pot sales that are undercutting the nation's largest licensed market, Ca...

Montreal removed the name of British general Jeffery Amherst's from its street map on Friday in favour of Atateken Street - a Mohawk word that means brotherhood. City and Indigenous lea...

GRENOBLE, France - Safe to say, members of the Canadian women's soccer team have the music in them. From grooving to Shania Twain's "Man! I Feel Like A Woman" on the team bus to flossin...

CHICAGO - Mick Jagger appeared healthy and energetic Friday night as the Rolling Stones launched their North American tour at Chicago's Soldier Field. The 75-year-old frontman ran and skipped along a ...

MOSCOW - Thousands of supporters of LGBT rights have marched through the centre of Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, under a heavy police presence to separate them from opponents. Police said Sunday that n...

JERUSALEM - U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said Sunday that Iran should not "mistake U.S. prudence and discretion for weakness," after the U.S. abruptly called off military strikes against...

BANGKOK - Southeast Asian leaders on Sunday pressed their call for self-restraint in the disputed South China Sea and renewed their alarm over the U.S.-China trade war, with one leader warning it may ...

BERLIN - Hundreds of climate activists are keeping up their protest inside one of Germany's biggest open-pit mines despite police orders to leave the place immediately, citing life-threatening danger....