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VANCOUVER - The third and strongest storm in a series of disturbances fuelled by the remnants of typhoon Songda cancelled ferry service and knocked out power for thousands of customers on the south co...

EDMONTON - Former Alberta premier Dave Hancock says he remembers the Jim Prentice who didn’t shrink from a challenge when the Progressive Conservatives saw their government plunged into crisis o...

KIGALI, Rwanda - Nearly 200 nations have reached a deal, announced Saturday morning after all-night negotiations, to limit the use of greenhouse gases far more powerful than carbon dioxide in a major ...

MANCHESTER, England - Welcome to the Premier League, Bob Bradley. The first American coach in the 24-year history of the Premier League got a taste of the frantic nature of England’s top divisio...

MONTREAL - Even working 40 hours a week, Sara Vassigh says she sometimes has trouble paying her rent and bills at the end of the month. With a salary just above minimum wage, she says home ownership, ...

NEW YORK - Planned Parenthood’s 100th anniversary celebrations this weekend come with a sense of relief for the group that traces its roots to a time when women could not vote and contraception ...

CLERMONT, Ky. - Bill Ball has handled multiple whiskey-making tasks in his 47 years at Jim Beam, but on Saturday he took on an unexpected role - joining colleagues on a picket line outside a Beam dist...

JOHANNESBURG - Experts say cutting hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, is the fastest way to reduce global warming. The United States, the world’s second-worst polluter, is among the countries that wan...

WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton is the country’s most famous working mother. For 40 years, she’s been at the centre of countless conversations about gender and politics. Even her pantsuits ha...

Russia’s U.N. ambassador said that tensions with the United States are probably the worst since the 1973 Mideast war. But Vitaly Churkin said Friday that Cold War relations between the Soviet Un...