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OTTAWA - The Liberals are poised to reject a number of the Senate's amendments to a bill that aims to end solitary confinement - changes many lawyers and human rights advocates say are neces...

HALIFAX - A Cape Breton high school has decided to stop calling its hockey team the Redmen, the latest to drop the name after McGill University in Montreal did so earlier this year. Rivervie...

LONDON - Kensington Palace says the Duke and Duchess of Sussex will be starting their own foundation to support their charitable endeavours, formally spinning off from the entity Prince Harry and Prin...

WASHINGTON - Acting Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan stepped down Tuesday before his formal nomination ever went to the Senate, citing a "painful" family situation that would hurt his children and r...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - In a story June 18 about changes to a vaccinations bill, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the group Educate. Advocate. remains opposed because the legislation now ca...

WHITEHORSE - Two teeth that were sitting in a Canadian museum for almost 50 years have become proof that ice-aged hyenas once roamed Yukon. A study published in the journal Open Quaternary says r...

REIMS, France - Christine Sinclair scored career goal No. 182 in a losing cause Thursday as Canada fell 2-1 to the European champion Netherlands, finishing in second place in Group E at the Women's Wo...

OTTAWA - The court martial for Canada's chief military judge is in limbo after the judge overseeing the trial - who happens to be deputy to the accused - agreed not to hear the case over conflict-of-i...

OTTAWA - Carving fins off live sharks and leaving them in the ocean to drown will be illegal in Canada as early as Friday. Importing shark fins that are no longer attached to a shark will al...

OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says he would like to increase the number of refugees Canada accepts and is pushing for higher refugee numbers every year. Speaking to participants in a...