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QUEBEC - A Quebec judge will hear a request for a stay of proceedings from former deputy premier Nathalie Normandeau and her co-accused, who were charged in 2016 following a corruption ...

OTTAWA - Former Conservative cabinet minister Peter MacKay says he's in the running for leadership of the federal Conservatives.He posted the message to his social media accounts Wednesday, his first ...

REDCLIFF, AB - A Redcliff woman is $1 million richer after winning a Lotto 6/49 Draw last fall.Erin Taefu won the prize in the October 16, 2019 draw, but did not discover she won until December, accor...

HALIFAX - As Canadian firefighters boarded flights today to battle blazes in Australia, they noted they will likely have to employ some different tactics than they do to fight loca...

NEW YORK - Sixty years after her death, the story of Zora Neale Hurston is still not fully told. The fiction writer-anthropologist-folklorist died in a segregated Florida hospital in January 1960, so ...

CAIRO - Sudan said it reopened its airspace Wednesday after an armed revolt from within its security forces shut down the capital's airport for hours and left at least two people dead. In a press conf...

MAPLE CREEK, SK - RCMP are considering centralizing police in southwest Saskatchewan.Town hall meetings took place in Shaunavon and Leader this week.Maple Creek's meeting is tonight to collect feedbac...

WINNIPEG - The national anthem before this Friday's NHL game in Winnipeg won't quite sound the way it usually does. A group of students from the city's Riverbend Community School are set to perfo...

MEDICINE HAT, AB - Southern Alberta is full of community groups focused on social initiatives, but a large hurdle for many of these organizations continues to be funding.A new federal grant could make...

PHOENIX - U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick of Arizona said Wednesday that she's taking time off from her congressional duties to seek treatment for alcohol dependence after a "serious" fall. Kirkpatrick, a D...