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WASHINGTON - More Americans signed contracts to buy homes in August, signalling that low mortgage rates may spark a sustained turnaround for the housing market. The National Association of Realtors sa...

MONTREAL - Andrew Scheer is promising a Conservative government would launch a judicial inquiry to find out what happened during the SNC-Lavalin affair. Scheer made the pledge during a visit to J...

OTTAWA - A Supreme Court of Canada decision has put the brakes on a class-action suit over the rights to property surveys in Ontario. In 2007, Keatley Surveying Ltd. brought the ac...

KABUL - A presidential election that is days away in Afghanistan threatens the troubled nation's best chance of making peace with the Taliban and ending 18 years of war, former President Hamid Karzai ...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Lethbridge's four west side elementary schools are over capacity and proposals are in place to build another two.Each would have the capacity for another 600 students and are expected...

Gabriela DeBues-Stafford was a fierce five-foot-three bundle of energy when Lynn Kanuka got to know her four years ago at the Summer Universiade. The Canadian track legend saw something of herself in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - With the Metropolitan Opera's bombshell announcement that Plcido Domingo will not take the Met stage this week - and possibly ever again - the legendary singer's only scheduled U.S. ap...

ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is pledging to undo changes to the tax system that led to a near war between small business and the Liberal government two years ago. "No gover...

WASHINGTON - A secret whistleblower complaint at the centre of an impeachment inquiry alleges that President Donald Trump abused the power of his office to "solicit interference from a foreign country...

VICTORIA - The number of doctors in Canada is growing at a rate more than double that of the population, says a report by the Canadian Institute of Health Information. Canada's population increased by...