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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising that a re-elected Liberal government will introduce legislation to ensure federal laws are harmonized with the United Nations Declaration on the Rig...

CALGARY - A Calgary defence lawyer has asked a judge to acquit his client of manslaughter because he says the Crown's case is too weak. Darren Mahoney is representing Allan Perdomo Lopez, wh...

CALGARY - Canada's finance minister says the best way to convince a skeptical oilpatch that the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion Ottawa approved Tuesday will actually be built is to go ahead and buil...

TORONTO - A shooting that sparked a stampede at a massive rally celebrating the Raptors' historic NBA title highlighted the challenges of organizing a large celebratory event in a sprawling metropolis...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government is teetering on a tightrope this week as it attempts to prove it can balance economic development with environmental protection during the f...

OTTAWA - The United Nations Refugee Agency says Canada admitted the largest number of resettled refugees last year and had the second highest rate of refugees who gained citizenship. The UNH...

Eight U.S. senators say Canadian mines in British Columbia are endangering cross-border rivers through a combination of poor environmental assessments and inadequate monitoring. "We remain concerned a...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer wants to give corporate tax breaks to companies that develop and patent green technology in Canada and introduce another federal tax credit for residential e...

Less than 24 hours after it became law, groups representing Canadian Muslims and civil liberties advocates sought Monday to have Quebec's secularism legislation struck down as unco...

WINNIPEG - The brothers of a Winnipeg bus driver who was fatally stabbed on the job broke down in tears at a sentencing hearing today for the man who killed him. They said Irvine Jubal Fraser's d...