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Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Nov. 17 --- CMHC SOUNDS INTEREST RATE WARNING: Canada’s federal housing agency says stress tests it has performed indicate a sudden rise in interest r...

TORONTO - Irish MMA phenom Conor McGregor, who added the UFC lightweight title to his featherweight championship on the weekend, has moved up to No. 2 in the UFC’s pound-for-pound rankings. McGr...

EDMONTON - Alberta Progressive Conservative member Sandra Jansen crossed the floor to the governing NDP Thursday, saying the moderate party she called home for 30 years is moving to embrace a far-righ...

OTTAWA - A leaked draft of an online federal survey on electoral reform to be launched next month has raised suspicions that the Trudeau government is trying to skew the public consultation process to...

WATERTON – This year alone, Waterton Lakes National Park’s Visitor Safety Team has responded to 25 incidents, some of them minor such as a hiker with a sprained ankle and some of them not ...

ATLANTA - Lawyers for Bobbi Kristina Brown’s estate say a judge in Atlanta has ordered her partner, Nick Gordon, to pay $36 million in a wrongful death case. Brown, the daughter of singers Whitn...

CALGARY - Wearable technology designed to help Penny Oleksiak swim even faster was unveiled Thursday at an Own The Podium sport science and technology summit in Calgary. It looks similar to a Garmin o...

TORONTO - The Toronto Wolfpack have found a training base in England, wrapped up tryouts in three countries and signed players from Ireland to Samoa. The fledgling Canadian rugby league franchise is s...

OTTAWA - Efforts by Canada’s anti-money laundering agency to pinpoint illicit dealings of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and other extremist organizations helped spark an increase in i...

NEW YORK - The New York Times pushed back against President-elect Donald Trump, saying Thursday that its paid subscriptions have jumped since the election, despite what Trump has said on Twitter. On S...