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OTTAWA - Conservative MP Mark Warawa used his emotional farewell address to the House Commons on Tuesday to call for changes that will ensure more Canadians have access to palliati...

KAMLOOPS - RCMP have nabbed a suspect in an April armed robbery in the Kamloops downtown. According to spokesperson Cpl. Jodi Shelkie, the incident happened at 3:15 a.m. on April 19, near the intersec...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump will nominate Patrick Shanahan to be his second secretary of defence. The former Boeing executive has been leading the Pentagon as acting secretary since Jan. 1, a ...

After surviving steamy Orlando, Toronto FC faces another challenge in defending MLS champion Atlanta United on Wednesday. Once again, Toronto (5-2-1) will have to play without veteran defend...

Canada enters the HSBC Canada Sevens this weekend in Langford, B.C., as the hottest team in the World Rugby Women's Sevens Series, looking to punch its ticket to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. The Canadian ...

Canadian snowboarder Max Parrot has some ambitious plans for the summer once he wraps up chemotherapy treatments in late June. The Olympic silver medallist, who was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphom...

I HAVE FOND MEMORIES of my first few jobs as a youngster in the Shuswap. I was about 12 or 13 years old when I started trimming produce full-time at Eagle Valley Foods in Sicamous for the summer. That...

WASHINGTON - Comedian Dave Chappelle has been chosen to receive this year's Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The 45-year-old Chappelle shot to international stardom through his Comedy Central prog...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's Justice Department is trying to muzzle the inquiry into the death of an Afghan war veteran who killed his family and himself more than two years ago, a seni...

OTTAWA - The family of Supreme Court Justice Clement Gascon says he is in good health a day after he briefly went missing. In a statement issued through the court, the Gascon family acknowledges the j...