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The spill of about two million tonnes of cyanide-soaked ore at a Yukon gold mine was one of the two "most catastrophic failures" in the 45-year history of the heap-leaching mining process, an engineer...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for President Donald Trump's plans to downsize the federal workforce despite warnings that critical government services will be lost and ...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia health officials said Tuesday that they are making progress recruiting health professionals and in reducing the province's primary care wait list through an emphasis on collabora...

VICTORIA - When Bill Edwards feeds his pet servals Luna and Tumas on his rural Vancouver Island property, he cannot just simply reach for cans of cat food. He instead serves them raw chicken and froze...

QUBEC - Quebec's government has announced that a hotly contested byelection northeast of Montreal will take place Aug. 11. The Arthabaska riding has been held by the Coalition Avenir Qubec since 2012,...

IQALUIT - The premier of Nunavut announced Tuesday he will not seek re-election when his term as a member of the territorial assembly expires this fall. P.J. Akeeagok said in a statement that he's lea...

GATINEAU - The Competition Bureau says it has obtained a court order as part of its probe into Amazon's conduct related to its online Canadian marketplace. The regulator is investigating Amazon's fair...

OTTAWA - A new poll suggests most Canadians are unfamiliar with nine possible NDP leadership contenders. A majority of respondents to the Research Co. poll said they "don't know who the person is" whe...

OTTAWA - As Canada escalates its criticism of how Israel is fighting the war in Gaza, one Israeli junior minister says her government won't submit to international investigations of the war that it fe...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government is boosting a tax credit to help developers of video games such as Electronic Arts hire additional staff and invest money locally. Premier David Eby said the...