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QUEBEC - Former Coalition Avenir Qubec member Claire Samson, dumped by the governing party's caucus earlier this week, has switched sides to the Conservative Party of Quebec. Samson made the move offi...

.PRINCE GEORGE - For some, the sport of mountain biking can be intimidating. However, Gals N Gears is a recently established group of mountain bikers dedicated to smiling, laughing, and pedalling the ...

HALIFAX - Responding to complaints from an Indigenous girl and her mother, the Nova Scotia government has deleted a high school correspondence course that asks students to list the advantages of the r...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is defending embattled Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan after the latter was censured by the House of Commons. Trudeau says Sajjan has spent his life serving Canad...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney will deliver an update today on COVID-19 health rules, with the province on the cusp of fully reopening its economy. Kenney has said Alberta needs 70 per cent o...

MONTREAL - The Montreal Canadiens say interim head coach Dominique Ducharme has been sent home and is isolating following irregularities in COVID-19 testing. The Canadiens cancelled Ducharme's pre-gam...

A coal company that was denied an application to build an open-pit mine in Alberta's Rocky Mountains says it's considering its legal options. On Thursday, a joint federal-provincial review panel denie...

OTTAWA - Travel restrictions at the Canada-U.S. border will remain in place for at least another month. Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says the American and Canadian governments are extending restr...

Manitoba RCMP say a man wanted for murder in Manitoba has been arrested near Belleville, Ont. A statement from the RCMP says Eric Wildman was taken into custody by the Ontario Provincial Police early ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) - Ethiopia's leaders in closed-door talks with a European Union special envoy earlier this year said "they are going to wipe out the Tigrayans for 100 years," the envoy said this w...