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CALGARY - A former flight attendant suing WestJet says a review into the airline’s workplace harassment policies validates her view that the company is failing to protect its employees. The Calg...

WASHINGTON - The Obama administration announced Thursday it will phase out its use of some private prisons, affecting thousands of federal inmates and immediately sending shares of the two publicly tr...

TORONTO - Few Canadian television events qualify as a momentous occasion for the nation, but Saturday’s Tragically Hip concert promises to be special. It seems like much of the country will be t...

TORONTO - The director of Canada’s anti-money laundering watchdog says the agency is studying how vulnerable certain emerging technologies, such as those being pioneered by so-called fintech sta...

SELKIRK, Man. - A Manitoba farmer has harvested a “yes” to a marriage proposal he plowed into a field. John Yokimas took his girlfriend, Sally Hnatiuk, for a plane ride. While airborne the...

SASKATOON - The family of hockey great Gordie Howe wants to return Mr. Hockey to his home. A city official says the family has requested that the cremated remains of Howe and his wife Colleen be inter...

NEW YORK - Gawker is going to shut down. A Gawker report Thursday said that Nick Denton, Gawker’s founder, told staffers that Gawker.com was ending on Thursday afternoon. Univision, the Spanish-...

NEW ORLEANS - Former NFL star Darren Sharper was sentenced Thursday to more than 18 years in prison for drugging women in order to rape them - double the sentence recommended by prosecutors. One of Sh...

OTTAWA - The Conservatives are questioning the impartiality of a lawyer named to the panel reviewing the environmental assessment process, saying the more than $33,000 he has donated to the Liberals, ...

NEW YORK - Gawker to shut down next week after nearly 14 years less than 3 months after declaring bankruptcy. More coming. The Associated Press