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OTTAWA - Independent senator and former journalist Andre Pratte wants the Liberal government to look seriously at beefing up protection for reporters and their sources. Pratte says if the government s...

OTTAWA - Federal Conservative leadership candidate Michael Chong is proposing a dramatic overhaul of the tax system based on new revenues from taxing carbon. Chong says his plan would cut overall fede...

LETHBRIDGE — Technology will be helping keep Lethbridge’s streets clear and safe this winter. The city demonstrated the various components of its winter snow operations for reporters Wedne...

OTTAWA - After playing in just one of the Ottawa Senators’ first nine games, 19-year-old defenceman Thomas Chabot knew a trip back to the major junior ranks was likely. So he wasn’t surpri...

NEW YORK - The shell of Gawker has settled with Hulk Hogan for $31 million, ending a years-long fight that led to the media company’s bankruptcy, the shutdown of Gawker.com and the sale of Gawke...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia will be getting electricity for “next to nothing” when the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project in Labrador starts producing energy, the man in charge of the megaproje...

QUEBEC - Voters in four Quebec ridings will head to the polls in provincial byelections in early December in what will be Jean-Francois Lisee’s first major test since becoming Parti Quebecois le...

PITTSBURGH - A woman jailed on charges she killed her toddler son sent a video of the boy’s apparently lifeless body to his father in a jealous, vengeful rage during a text-messaged argument tha...

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - Max Weinberg, the drummer for Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, has paid $2 million for a vacant lakefront lot with mountain views in New York’s Adirondacks. The Adiro...

INDIANAPOLIS - A key aide to Donald Trump’s vice-presidential nominee, Gov. Mike Pence, continues to earn $23,000 a month as Indiana’s sole Washington lobbyist even as he has taken a paid ...