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OTTAWA - The House of Commons has supported a backbench MP's bid to have the government work to end veterans homelessness after days of partisan bickering. The motion from Ontario Liberal MP Neil...

AMHERST, N.S. - Simple signs with a pair of blue hearts capture a small town's sentiments over the rescue of two young Maritime women from kidnappers in Ghana. A sign on the main street...

The status of Canada's largest park as a World Heritage Site remains wobbly after a United Nations body expressed grave doubts about a federal plan to rescue it. "Considerably more effo...

ETOBICOKE, Ont. - Transport Canada says it will require all commercial drivers to have electronic logging devices - one of the recommendations from a coroner's report into the Humboldt Broncos bu...

OTTAWA - The head of the Mining Association of Canada says the hotly contested federal environmental assessment bill is welcome in the industry it will affect the most. "This promises to be a better s...

Montreal festival organizers have learned the hard way that trying to rebrand Quebec's Fete nationale celebrations simply doesn't fly in these parts. The organizers of the first Festival du Solst...

VANCOUVER - Heavy drinking landed Dawn Nickel in the emergency department four times - twice for alcohol poisoning and two more times when she took pills with alcohol to try and kill herself. "I had n...

OTTAWA - The Canadian government's relationship with the Metis Nation is a tangible and concrete example of reconciliation, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday. At a meeting known as the ...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland firmly rebuffed China's latest demand Thursday to free high-tech scion Meng Wanzhou, saying it would set a dangerous precedent that could endanger a...

OTTAWA - For the first time ever, members of Parliament will have the right to take paid parental leave from their jobs on Parliament Hill when they adopt or give birth. The House of Commons...