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MONTREAL - SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. is pushing back its decision on whether to opt for a trial by jury or by judge alone in a corruption case that has tripped up the engineering giant and ensnared it in...

NOBLEFORD - Four Noble Central School students have made history, as the final team to have their names inscribed on the Palliser Regional Schools Biker Build-Off Challenge trophy.The challenge, in it...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals say they are reviewing the changes the Senate has made to their environmental-assessment legislation but accuse the Conservatives of bowing to pressure fro...

albertaEDMONTON - In May 2016, a wildfire near Fort McMurray forced more than 80,000 people to flee the northern Alberta city, destroyed 2,400 buildings and burned nearly 6,000 square kilometres of fo...

CALGARY - Canada's former commander in Iraq says the Islamic State may have been defeated on the battlefield, but the militant group remains alive and well as an insurgency and could still wield stron...

PARIS - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday defended their shared efforts to ease the worries of their citizens, denounced those seeking to capitalize on such ...

LOS ANGELES - Director Spike Lee is calling for Hollywood production companies to leave Georgia over a law that would ban abortions as early as six weeks, upon detection of a fetal heartbeat. Most stu...

BEIJING - Six people have died and one is missing after heavy rains and flooding in southeastern China, the official Xinhua News Agency said Sunday. Xinhua said that 88,000 people have been evacuated ...

VATICAN CITY - Pope Francis has lamented what he calls today's "culture of insults" in the world. In his homily during Pentecost Mass Sunday in St. Peter's Square, Francis also decried that "the more ...

FUKUOKA, Japan - Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of 20 major economies wrapped up a meeting in Japan on Sunday with a pledge to use all the policies they can to protect global...