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OTTAWA - Conservative MPs want House of Commons Speaker Greg Fergus to resign after ejecting their leader - and not Prime Minister Justin Trudeau - during a heated debate Tuesday. The Conservatives sa...

HALIFAX - An independent committee has released its first report on how governments and the RCMP are responding to the inquiry into the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia, but it does not offer any ass...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said Wednesday she would call a vote next week on ousting House Speaker Mike Johnson, forcing her colleagues to choose sides in a difficult sho...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is moving toward reclassifying marijuana as a less dangerous drug. The Justice Department proposal would recognize the medical uses of cannab...

PEGUIS, Man. - A Manitoba First Nation has declared a state of emergency in response to a health crisis caused by repeated flooding. Peguis First Nation says it has endured persistent flooding over th...

NEW YORK (AP) - Even as many Americans say they learn about the 2024 election campaign from national news outlets, a disquieting poll reveals some serious trust issues. About half of Americans, 53%, s...

MONTREAL - Pro-Palestinian activists who have pitched their tents on the McGill University campus scored a legal victory on Wednesday when a Quebec judge rejected a request for an injunction to stop t...

Voters in two Ontario ridings head to the polls in a pair of byelections Thursday, but most eyes will be on a Greater Toronto Area town, where the tight race comes with high stakes for both the premie...

CHARD, Alta. - Raoul Montgrand, president of the Chard Mtis Nation in northern Alberta, called a 200-square-foot camper trailer home for close to two years. The community leader and his wife were amon...

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP) - Florida's ban on most abortions after six weeks of pregnancy, before many women even know they are pregnant, went into effect Wednesday, and some doctors are concerned that wom...