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OTTAWA - The cabinet minister responsible for consumer protection in Alberta says neither she nor her cabinet colleagues would ever consider using an executive car service. Service Alberta Minister St...

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer has taken a look at the long-term costs to the government and families of the Liberals’ new child benefit. Here are some figures about the benefit progr...

NEW YORK - A woman in New York says she hasn’t stopped crying since an airline mistook her 5-year-old for another child and flew him to the wrong city. Maribel Martinez tells New York’s Da...

TORONTO - The CFL and the Saskatchewan Roughriders will be keeping a close eye on controversial defensive lineman Khalif Mitchell, league commissioner Jeffrey Orridge said Thursday. Any “inappro...

HALIFAX - A palatial cruise ship described by passengers as a mini, moving city cast an impressive figure on the Halifax waterfront Thursday, breaking port records as thousands of tourists flooded int...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she was celebrating her 19th wedding anniversary when she heard the Opposition leader was joking about physically assaulting her. “I was bemused,...

VANCOUVER - It’s been one year since the image of a drowned toddler lying face down on a Turkish beach turned the eyes of the world to the Syrian refugee crisis, but observers say the powerful p...

BILLINGS, Mont. - Montana re-opened portions of the Yellowstone River and most of its tributaries Thursday, but it kept a popular stretch of the waterway closed to all recreational activity because of...

Dallas police Chief David Brown announced his retirement Thursday, two months after his impassioned response to a sniper attack that killed five officers made him the face of a city reeling from trage...

OTTAWA - Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch wants to know what her supporters think about vetting would-be immigrants and refugees for “anti-Canadian values.” The question com...