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ABIDJIAN, Cote d'Ivoire - White House senior adviser Ivanka Trump says her father asked her if she was interested in taking the job of World Bank chief but she passed on it. In an Associated Press int...

OTTAWA - Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's lawyers are trying to use testimony from the country's top bureaucrat during the SNC-Lavalin affair to gain access to secret government documents about their client...

WINNIPEG - The best friend of a Manitoba Indigenous woman killed during a botched robbery looked at a man found guilty in the death and asked how a life could be worth only $45. In January, a jur...

TORONTO - Bruce Cassidy didn't see it coming. And quite frankly, neither did many others. A day after the Tampa Bay Lightning - the Presidents' Trophy winners, a team that tied the NHL record for wins...

MIRABEL, Que. - The Canadian government made a "big mistake" in 1969 when it expropriated thousands of hectares of land north of Montreal to build the ill-fated Mirabel airport project, Transport Mini...

QUEBEC - Premier Francois Legault is congratulating Jason Kenney on his electoral victory in Alberta while reminding the incoming premier that Quebec's position on oil pi...

TORONTO - In the weeks before cannabis became legal across Canada, Toronto's once booming network of weed retailers all but disappeared. Nearly 80 pot shops advertising themselves as dispensaries had ...

JACKSON, Miss. - Mississippi residents who want a state flag without the Confederate battle emblem now can display one on their license plate. Gov. Phil Bryant signed a bill Tuesday authorizing the st...

LIMA, Peru - In a Peruvian neighbourhood where families consider running water a luxury, young girls are learning the delicate art of ballet dancing. In the classroom at a public school near the South...

BEAUCEVILLE, Que. - A Quebec town that this week suffered its worst flooding in nearly 50 years is fearing more damage as rain is forecast in the coming days. Officials in Beauceville, about...