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WASHINGTON - The Senate on Tuesday approved a major public lands bill that revives a popular conservation program, adds 1.3 million acres of new wilderness, expands several national parks and creates ...

OTTAWA - The time-honoured tenet of solicitor-client privilege - usually discussed in courtrooms and law-school textbooks - has become a central point of debate in a political controversy over whether...

OTTAWA - The Public Prosecution Service of Canada is involved in allegations of improper government influence IN two major cases: the prosecutions of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman over allegations he leake...

HALIFAX - The court-appointed monitor overseeing the search for the $260 million owed to clients of the faltering QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency exchange says it recently found more than $900,000 in digita...

LETHBRIDGE – After two failed attempts, a tentative trial date has been set for a man from Blackie, Alberta, in connection with a series of events in March 2018 that started with a stolen snowmo...

HALIFAX - More penalties have been handed out in an ugly brawl that cast a pall over university men’s hockey in Atlantic Canada. Hardest hit were the head coaches - Acadia University’s Dar...

QUEBEC - The Coalition Avenir Quebec government is following through on an election promise guaranteed to win the hearts of the province’s schoolchildren: more recess. Education Minister Jean-Fr...

TABER - The Taber Police Service held an availability on Tuesday, Feb. 12, to answer questions following the arrest of a man from Elkville, Illinois, on 11 counts of felony disorderly conduct for maki...

MADISON, Wis. - Republican concerns that former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is too controversial to honour as a black leader doomed a resolution recognizing Black History Month in the state Assem...

Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Feb. 4-10. Listings include the week’s ranking and viewership. 1. “The Grammy Awards,” CBS, 19.88 million. 2. “The Big Ban...