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OTTAWA - Artificial intelligence must be regulated to protect Canadians' privacy and human rights, a federal watchdog says.In issuing new recommendations for regulating AI Thursday, Canada's privacy c...

OTTAWA - Veterans Affairs Minister Lawrence MacAulay is boasting about a reduction in the number of outstanding requests for assistance from veterans with disabilities, even though advocates say COVID...

Quebec Finance Minister Eric Girard is scheduled to present an economic update this afternoon that will reflect the damage of COVID-19 to the province's finances.  Last month, Girard told a legis...

CAIRO - At least 74 migrants drowned after their Europe-bound ship capsized off the coast of Libya on Thursday, the U.N. migration agency said, in the latest in a series of at least eight shipwrecks i...

SYLVAN LAKE, Alta. - Alberta intends to hold its provincial men's and women's curling championships jointly in January. Curlers won't "bubble" at the Jan. 25-31 events at Sylvan Lake's NexSource Centr...

LOS ANGELES - The Weeknd will bring his popular falsetto vocals to the 2021 Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show. NFL, Pepsi and Roc Nation announced Thursday that the three-time Grammy Award winner will be...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia's children's representative says the COVID-19 pandemic has amplified inadequacies in mental health services as experts brace for rising rates of anxiety, depression and po...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Experts say Donald Trump's lasting legacy may well be that working-class Americans get more of a say in U.S. trade policy.  That could make Canada's job more difficult when it ...

Rhyne Howard is rewriting the record books at Kentucky and she is only a junior. Now the Wildcats star is the first player from the school to be honoured as a preseason All-American by The Associated ...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The Transportation Safety Board says a fire in January aboard a large factory-freezer trawler started in the ship's sauna as the vessel was catching and processing shrimp off the co...