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GRAND FORKS, B.C. - The wildfire that prompted a now-rescinded evacuation order for the community of Grand Forks, B.C., has grown to about four square kilometres in size. That's up from two square kil...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Police in a majority Black Mississippi city discriminate against Black people, use excessive force and retaliate against its critics, the Justice Department said Thursday in a scathi...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government is going to court to fight the dumping of contaminated soil along a shoreline in the Mohawk community of Kanesatake, west of Montreal. The Environment Department is se...

VANCOUVER - Quarterback Nathan Rourke says the B.C. Lions "have to have a sense of urgency" as they prepare for their final four games of the CFL season. "There's a lot of importance in these last fou...

OTTAWA - An NDP MP has introduced a bill that would criminalize residential school denialism, saying it would help stop harm caused toward survivors, their families and communities. If the bill is pas...

Olympic champion Maggie Mac Neil has retired from swimming. The gold medallist in the women's 100-metre butterfly at Tokyo's Summer Games in 2021 made the announcement in a social media post. The 24-y...

OTTAWA - Less than 24 hours after the Conservatives lost their first attempt to topple the government the Tories are trying again. A new motion being debated this morning states that the House of Comm...

McALESTER, Okla. (AP) - Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for his role in the 1992 shooting death of a convenience store owner after the governor rejected a recommendation from the state's parole board...

OTTAWA - French President Emmanuel Macron is in Canada for a brief visit to Ottawa and Montreal. Macron arrived last night from New York and had an informal dinner at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's h...

TORONTO - A coalition of disability rights groups says it is launching a Charter challenge against a part of Canada's law on medical assistance in dying. The group, which also includes two individual ...