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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The California Assembly is expected to give final consideration Wednesday to a bill that would provide new wage and benefit protections to workers at so-called gig economy compani...

OKLAHOMA CITY - T. Boone Pickens, a brash and quotable oil tycoon who grew even wealthier through corporate takeover attempts, died Wednesday. He was 91. Pickens' spokesman Jay Rosser confirmed the de...

TORONTO - The Conservatives have turned to Bryan Adams' longtime hitmaker Jim Vallance to pen their campaign song. The guitar-driven tune is packed with Vallance's trademarked pop-rock zeal, as a chor...

CLEVELAND - The girlfriend of Browns defensive end Chris Smith has been killed in an accident. She was 26. The team said Petara Cordero, died when she was struck by an oncoming car on I-90 West at aro...

Tennis phenom Bianca Andreescu won US$3.85 million when she beat Serena Williams in the women's final at the U.S. Open, but it's likely that paycheque is only the beginning of million-dollar payouts&n...

EDMONTON - A federal report confirming the use of false social media posts to try to manipulate last spring's Alberta election points to dangers for the upcoming federal vote, political scie...

OTTAWA - A Crown attorney has accused Joshua Boyle of dictating strict weight-loss targets for wife Caitlan Coleman after the couple were freed as hostages of Taliban-linked captors. Prosecutor J...

LONDON - British lawmakers demanded Monday that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government release officials' private correspondence about plans for Brexit, as the government prepared to suspend Parlia...

MONTREAL - Quebec Superior Court has invalidated parts of the federal and Quebec laws on medically assisted dying laws, declaring them too restrictive and therefore unconstitutional. A ...

Alberta's famed Burgess Shales have yielded another ground-breaking fossil find - this time the oldest known ancestor of today's spiders and scorpions Two scientists from the Royal Ontario Museum...