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VANCOUVER - A coroner's inquest jury looking into the Winters Hotel fire that killed two people in Vancouver two years ago was stood down Friday to deliberate potential recommendations to avoid simila...

Toronto is getting $143 million from the federal government to help shelter asylum seekers in the city. Earlier this week, Immigration Minister Marc Miller had announced Ottawa would spend $362 millio...

ATLANTA (AP) - Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis acknowledged in a court filing on Friday having a "personal relationship" with a special prosecutor she hired for the Georgia election interf...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohio's high court has given Republican Attorney General Dave Yost until Monday to respond to the legal claims of a coalition of civil rights organizations that is challenging his...

EDMONTON - Alberta's new proposals on the treatment of transgender youth are the "most anti-LGBT of anywhere in the country," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday. Speaking at an event in Waterlo...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's universities are getting one-year conditional funding agreements as part of an abrupt government policy change that caught school presidents off guard. The terms announced Frid...

OTTAWA - Canada is considering whether to sanction Israeli settlers in the West Bank who have been accused of attacking Palestinians and Israeli peace activists in the territory, Prime Minister Justin...

OTTAWA - Turning Rideau Cottage into the permanent residence of the prime minister would have to include creating staff offices and other "residential infrastructure," an internal government document ...

SURREY, B.C. - The spokesman for a group advocating Sikh independence says its supporters are frustrated with the lack of action to protect them after a Metro Vancouver home belonging to an associate ...

FREDERICTON - Blaine Higgs lost one cabinet minister Friday and another said he won't run in the upcoming general election, but the New Brunswick premier painted the departures as an opportunity for h...