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OTTAWA - Canada's federal procurement minister says she wishes the Irving company and its lawyers hadn't threatened to sue reporters asking questions about the company's federal shipbuilding contracts...

OTTAWA - The federal government has postponed a long-awaited update to Canada's corporate-misconduct provisions, including changes that could help SNC-Lavalin avoid being barred from lucrative federal...

JACKSON, Miss. - In the Washington political scene of bombast and big egos, Republican Thad Cochran of Mississippi wielded power with a quiet, gentlemanly demeanour. He played piano in his Capitol Hil...

VANCOUVER - A newborn calf in a southern resident killer whale pod has been spotted in the waters around Tofino, British Columbia. Department of Fisheries and Oceans marine mammal co-ordinator Pa...

VANCOUVER - A newborn calf in a southern resident killer whale pod has been spotted in the waters around Tofino, British Columbia. Department of Fisheries and Oceans marine mammal co-ordinator Pa...

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says it is "unfortunate" that a disagreement with the Philippines about Canadian garbage became an international diplomatic incident but she hopes it's ...

CONCORD, N.H. - New Hampshire, which hasn't executed anyone in 80 years and has only one inmate on death row, on Thursday became the latest state to abolish the death penalty when the state Senate vot...

JACKSON, Miss. - In 1890, as white politicians across the South cracked down on the black population with Jim Crow laws, Mississippi inserted into its constitution an unusually high bar for getting el...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government launched a wide-ranging independent commission Thursday to look into youth protection in the province, prompted by the death last month of a seven-...

KAMLOOPS - It's time for the annual B.C. Lions Fan Fest, a fun event that fans, especially in Kamloops, look forward to every year the team's in the city. The players also enjoy meeting their supporte...