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Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Nov. 8 ___ U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN EXPOSED FRACTURES: And the prize is: A big, ugly wound in the heart of American politics. Nearly two years of relentles...

MONTREAL - A Montreal woman with ties to an international feminist group was arrested Tuesday after staging a topless protest inside a New York City polling station being used for the U.S. presidentia...

EDMONTON - Alberta is proposing legislation that would allow people who don’t identify as either male or female to put a third gender marker such as an X on government documents. “With thi...

OTTAWA - The outcome of a Prince Edward Island plebiscite on electoral reform is giving hope to those who are pushing Canada to adopt a proportional voting system. But the fact that so few Islanders b...

LOS ANGELES - A gay YouTube personality has pleaded guilty to felony vandalism in an incident in which he claimed he was the victim of a hate crime. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Of...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkey said Tuesday that the U.S.-backed and Kurdish-led forces leading an assault on the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa should not enter the city itself but merely help encircle i...

DETROIT - Officials say the cost of building the Detroit Red Wings’ new arena has jumped by $105 million to nearly $733 million. The city’s Downtown Development Authority said the revised ...

Home construction is slowing down in British Columbia, with housing starts in Vancouver falling to their lowest level in more than five years, according to the latest data from Canada Mortgage and Hou...

HALIFAX - She is 900 kilograms, has her own Twitter feed and may be cruising East Coast waters in a dizzying, long-distance quest for love. Lydia, the aptly named “rock-star” of the great ...

BROSSARD, Que. - Even when the Montreal Canadiens are on a winning run, there are critics who feel they should be playing better. Coach Michel Therrien had a laugh this week when, with his team in fir...