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HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's Liberal and NDP leaders highlighted platform pledges related to housing and support for small businesses Friday, as Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Houston campaigned outsi...

Ontario plans to ban registered sex offenders from changing their names. Solicitor General Michael Kerzner says those who are on the provincial sex offender registry will no longer be allowed to legal...

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia Supreme Court ruling issued this week could lead to residents of Chticamp, N.S., casting their votes in a smaller riding with a higher percentage of francophone constituents in...

OTTAWA - The federal government is giving an inquiry into foreign interference an extra month to complete its work. Commissioner Marie-Jose Hogue's final report is now due by the end of January, a mon...

LIMA - Ottawa has concluded negotiations for a trade deal with Indonesia and is proposing nuclear-energy collaboration with Southeast Asian leaders. The moves are a show of faith for multilateralism a...

VANCOUVER - Brady Oliveira stole the show at the CFL awards banquet. The Winnipeg Blue Bombers running back captured the George Reed Most Outstanding Player honour and was named top Canadian for a sec...

OTTAWA - The federal government has tapped a panel of five experts to craft the path toward a universal pharmacare program. Dr. Nav Persaud, the Canada Research Chair in health justice, will chair a c...

JASPER, ALBERTA, CANADA - Business owners in the fire-ravaged Rocky Mountain resort town of Jasper are getting some financial help getting back on their feet. The federal government says it's providin...

NEW YORK (AP) - President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday he will nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, putting a man whose vi...

NEW YORK (AP) - President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr to serve as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, according to two p...