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Montreal amusement park La Ronde has cancelled the first night of an international fireworks festival because of concerns over air quality stemming from forest fires in northern Quebec. La Ronde owner...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that colleges and universities must stop considering race in admissions, forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve div...

OTTAWA - Canada is among four countries turning to international law to ensure Iran is held accountable for shooting down Flight PS752 more than three years ago. The group of nations - which also incl...

OTTAWA - Canada's cyberspy agency says it conducted operations in the last year to disrupt and remove harmful terrorist content spread online by foreign, ideologically motivated extremists. In its lat...

VANCOUVER - The Canadian Chamber of Commerce says it is "deeply disturbed" the British Columbia port workers' union has served strike notice and is prepared to walk out on Saturday. The chamber has is...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greece's left-wing opposition leader, Alexis Tsipras, announced his decision Thursday to step down after a crushing election defeat. Tsipras, 48, served as Greece's prime ministe...

LONDON (AP) - A British court ruled Thursday that a government plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda in an attempt to deter migrants from making risky journeys across the English Channel is unlawful. ...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Search suggests 88 graves at Alberta residential school University of Alberta r...

VANCOUVER - Chief Don Tom of the Tsartlip First Nation on Vancouver Island says he's been known to "partake" in watching fireworks, as a way to bring families together. But on Canada Day, he wants peo...

NANTERRE, France (AP) - Protesters angry after police fatally shot a 17-year-old boy set cars and public buildings ablaze in Paris suburbs and unrest spread to some other French cities and towns, desp...