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PARIS (AP) - French researcher Luc Montagnier, who won a Nobel Prize in 2008 for discovering the HIV virus and more recently spread false claims about the coronavirus, has died at age 89, according to...

OTTAWA - The Minister of Indigenous Services says the number of COVID-19 infections in First Nations communities has begun to decline, bringing hope that the worst of the Omicron wave has passed. Patt...

MATANE, Que. - A Quebec court judge has signed off on a jointly recommended 10-year sentence for a Quebec man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping his three-year-old son. The man pleaded guilty Wednesday ...

TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors have traded guard Goran Dragic to the San Antonio Spurs for forwards Thaddeus Young and Drew Eubanks and draft picks, according to the Athletic, ESPN and Sportsnet. Dragi...

PRINCE GEORGE - Police recovered stolen firearms from a home on the 1900 block of Strathcona Avenue earlier this week.Prince George RCMP Cpl. Jennifer Cooper says the firearms were recovered on Monday...

PORT ALBERNI, B.C. - A Vancouver Island First Nation says it has taken the first steps toward locating possible unmarked graves at the former site of the Alberni Indian Residential School. A statement...

OTTAWA - The office of Canada's correctional investigator says Indigenous and Black federal inmates experience more use of force than any other racial group. Leticia Gutierrez, senior policy adviser i...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will Thursday outline how his government will tackle the country's pressing problems including corruption, nationwide power cuts, high unemp...

EDMONTON - The Edmonton Oilers have fired head coach Dave Tippett, according to reports from Sportsnet, TSN and the Athletic. After beginning the season 16-5-0, the Oilers went 7-13-3 and dropped down...

Michigan's governor is calling on Canada to stop a border protest snarling one of the country's busiest trade routes. Flag-waving protesters opposed to COVID-19 measures are blocking Canada-bound traf...