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WINNIPEG - A polar bear cub seen wandering around the northern Manitoba town of Churchill without its mother has a new home. The polar bear conservation centre at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg ...

WASHINGTON - China pushed back Wednesday against President-elect Donald Trump’s threat to use sanctions to win back a competitive trade advantage for the United States. On the campaign trail, Tr...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Aquarium says despite recent challenges, as staff cope with the death of one beluga whale and the critical illness of another, some new residents of the aquarium are helping ...

HALIFAX - They called it “Der Untergang” - The Downfall. The plan, conceived by a young Canadian man and, allegedly, an American girlfriend, was to kill as many people as possible in an at...

HALIFAX - A group of Mi’kmaq chiefs will get an apology from Nova Scotia’s premier Thursday for a government legal brief that implied members of a First Nation band are a conquered people....

OAKVILLE, Ont. - Golf Canada CEO Scott Simmons is leaving the post in February. He has been in the job since 2007. Simmons said it was “a very personal decision, and a difficult one.” R...

OTTAWA - Conservative leadership hopeful Maxime Bernier wants the CBC to refocus its mandate with fewer cooking shows, sporting events and Canadian knockoffs of popular U.S. programs. The Quebec MP sa...

OTTAWA – One quarter of the 604 homicide victims reported by Canadian police services in 2015 were aboriginal. That’s even though aboriginal people accounted for only about five per cent o...

MOSUL, Iraq - They came by the hundreds - men, women and children fleeing the battle for Mosul, some bloodied and crying out for help. So large was the crowd on the road that Iraqi troops initially or...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia must prepare for a potential wave of deaths due to illicit fentanyl, and must as a result be careful in addressing painkiller over-prescription, says the province’s chief p...