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MONTREAL - Charity L'Arche Canada says it has made changes to protect staff, volunteers and participants since sexual abuse allegations against founder Jean Vanier first came to light in 2020. The int...

TORONTO - A national Indigenous organization is calling on Canadian police forces to make "fundamental changes" to end brutality against members of racialized groups in the country. The Congress of Ab...

OTTAWA - A Ukrainian-Canadians group has withdrawn a court challenge of Ottawa's decision to export gas turbines for a Russian pipeline after the federal government nixed the plan in December. The fed...

Former U.S. Senator David Durenberger, a Minnesota Republican who espoused a progressive brand of politics and criticized the GOP after his political career, died Tuesday at age 88. Durenberger's heal...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Rep. George Santos of New York told GOP colleagues in a closed-door meeting Tuesday that he is temporarily stepping down from his two congressional committees, lawmakers s...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - The death toll from a boating accident in a lake in northwest Pakistan over the weekend reached 51, the military said Tuesday. The vessel was carrying children and teachers f...

VANCOUVER - General Motors Co. has signed a deal to invest US$650 million in Lithium Americas Corp. which is developing the Thacker Pass lithium project in Nevada. Under the agreement, GM will receive...

Teams skipped by Manitoba's Kaitlyn Lawes, Alberta's Casey Scheidegger and Manitoba's Meghan Walter appear set to fill the three wild-card positions at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts. With all of t...

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) - Pope Francis began a six-day visit to Congo and South Sudan on Tuesday, aiming to bring a message of peace to two countries riven by poverty, conflict and what Francis has calle...

OTTAWA - Canada has sanctioned more of Myanmar's military elite, two years after the country's coup. The country, formerly known as Burma, has seen a democratic backsliding and a series of humanitaria...