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OTTAWA - Veterans ombudsman Craig Dalton is calling for nationwide consultations on a vision and plan for supporting former service members and their families. Dalton says a great deal has b...

ANN ARBOR, Mich. - Five former patients have alleged that a late University of Michigan physician sexually abused them during exams, with one accuser saying Dr. Robert E. Anderson's actions over sever...

KAMLOOPS - After hearing from more than 200 marginalized youth in B.C., a Kamloops advocate against youth homelessness is calling on the provincial government to do more.Katherine McParland, executive...

MONTREAL - Former Quebec media star Eric Salvail was no longer employed at Radio-Canada during the time he is alleged to have sexually assaulted a man in a bathroom at the public broadcaster, his tria...

MONTREAL - Via Rail says it is temporarily laying off 1,000 employees due to blockades that continue to halt trains on CN tracks in Eastern Canada. The Crown corporation has suspended passenger servic...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says no one should construe the co-operation between Canada and China on the novel coronavirus outbreak as a sign that relations between t...

The global body that regulates shipping is moving to eliminate a highly polluting fuel in the Arctic. The International Maritime Organization has passed a draft regulation to ban heavy fuel oil i...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Lions have signed free-agent wide receiver Dominique Rhymes to a one-year contract. Rhymes, 26, joins the Lions following three CFL seasons with Ottawa, where he ap...

KANESATAKE, Que. - An Indigenous leader in Quebec retracted comments Wednesday about the possibility of ongoing rail blockades coming down - words that didn't go over well with members of his own comm...

EDMONTON - A blockade set up on a Canadian National rail line on the western edge of Edmonton in support of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs was being dismantled - at least temporarily - Wednesday ...