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LETHBRIDGE -- The downtown Watch program is expanding to include a SafeWalk service. SafeWalk will offer an escorted walk to and from any location within The Watch patrol zone. It will be available to...

HALIFAX - Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, whose status has been up in the air since a breach-of-trust-case against him was dropped last month, was welcomed with a greeting of "mate" from the ...

A "limited selection" of next-generation cannabis products such as edibles will "gradually" hit retail shelves no earlier than mid-December 2019, Health Canada says. The Ottawa-based ag...

OTTAWA - Canadian business leaders say Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's trip to Washington next week could be more productive if he can add a meeting with Democratic party leader Nancy Pelosi to h...

MONTREAL - Quebec and Alberta are natural allies in the fight to defend provincial autonomy in the face of federal interventions, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney said Wednesday during a&nb...

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - The father of an eight-year-old girl who was killed by her mother says he's felt the worst pain of his life watching her young brothers suffer profound grief, confusion and sha...

OTTAWA - Canada Post is proposing to raise the prices of stamps ever-so-slightly next year. The federal corporation says it is looking to increase the price of stamps two cents, to 92 cents, for a sta...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Dignitaries gathered together Friday morning to celebrate the grand opening of the new Cor Van Raay YMCA in west Lethbridge.Attendees included the likes of MLAs Shannon Phillips and N...

OTTAWA - Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde is calling on all party leaders to make sure three pieces of legislation he says are of "fundamental importance" to Indigenous P...

OTTAWA - The federal government has quietly taken construction of the coast guard's next heavy icebreaker away from Vancouver shipyard Seaspan, the latest in a string of upheavals in Canada's multibil...