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OTTAWA - Canadians will continue to have access to the medications they need, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised Thursday in the face of escalating worry about a Trump administration decision...

CALGARY - Conservative MP Deepak Obhrai has died after a brief and aggressive battle with liver cancer. Relatives of the Calgary politician say he passed away Friday in Calgary surrounded by his famil...

LONDON - The probability that Britain's economy slips into recession early next year is rising even if the country manages to negotiate a smooth and orderly exit from the European Union in the weeks a...

TORONTO - A Toronto neurosurgeon who murdered his wife two days after she filed for divorce now faces a disciplinary hearing before Ontario's medical regulator. The College of Physician...

MONTREAL - Canadians with criminal records for simple pot possession can now apply for a pardon free of cost and with no mandatory five-year waiting period - but they'll have to finish their sentence ...

BERLIN - The heat wave that smashed high temperature records in five European countries a week ago is now over Greenland, accelerating the melting of the island's ice sheet and causing massive ice los...

NEW YORK - Embattled R&B singer R. Kelly pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges he sexually abused women and girls who attended his concerts as his lawyers continued to label the alleged vic...

WASHINGTON - U.S. long-term mortgage rates were flat to slightly higher this week, hovering around three-year lows after the Federal Reserve's cut in its benchmark interest rate for the first time in ...

OTTAWA - Transport Canada says it's lifting speed restrictions for cargo ships in the Gulf of St. Lawrence after recent surveillance failed to detect North Atlantic right whales in shipping ...

HARARE, Zimbabwe - The United States on Thursday placed on its sanctions list a former Zimbabwean army general who commanded troops accused of killing six civilians a year ago after a disputed electio...