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The United Nations Human Rights Office is calling on all levels of Canadian governments to investigate the deaths of Indigenous children at residential schools and to intensity efforts to find those w...

MIAMI (AP) - Police have charged two suspects with attempted murder in a shooting that wounded two people on Ocean Drive in Miami Beach, but suspects remained elusive Wednesday in two other attacks th...

OTTAWA - International Development Minister Karina Gould says Canada is doubling its dollar commitment to the global vaccine-sharing alliance known as COVAX, but isn't yet committing to a specific don...

NANAIMO - Rainfall was sparse in Nanaimo and many other portions of the province this spring.Environment Canada meteorologist Doug Lundquist told NanaimoNewsNOW local spring rainfall totals the previo...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Isaac Herzog, a veteran politician and the scion of a prominent Israeli family, has been elected president, a largely ceremonial role. An anonymous vote was held Tuesday among the 120...

AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Jordan has referred the cases of two former senior officials accused of taking part in a foreign plot linked to the half-brother of King Abdullah II to a national security court, ...

NEW YORK (AP) - After decades of photographing rock stars, movie stars and heads of state, Annie Leibovitz has added a business leader to her portfolio: Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi. Leibovitz's sho...

OTTAWA - An internal audit found that federal prison staff improperly intercepted communication between an inmate and their lawyer in 10 per cent of cases reviewed, amounting to possible breaches of s...

As COVID-19 vaccine supplies ramp up across the country, most provinces and territories have begun planning to give second doses in the coming weeks. More than 24 million people across Canada have now...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - The largest ship in the Iranian navy caught fire and later sank Wednesday in the Gulf of Oman under unclear circumstances, semiofficial news agencies reported. The Fars and Tasnim ...