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OTTAWA - An Ontario shipyard has dropped a request for an investigation into whether the federal government tried to rig its plan to add a third yard to its multibillion-dollar shipbuilding strategy i...

CALGARY - A Federal Court judge has granted the British Columbia government a temporary injunction against an Alberta law that could have limited oil exports to other provinces. In a decision rel...

FREDERICTON - A new record for the longest punt in Canadian university football history - 114 yards - has now been recognized more than half a century after it occurred. The kick, by Thomas Pinckard o...

MONTREAL - Quebec's human rights commission is calling on the provincial government to come up with a plan to fight racism and discrimination in the wake of a new report on abuse against min...

OTTAWA - Canada will go with a familiar roster for its women's soccer friendly against host Japan next month. Twenty-one of the 24 players on the roster for the Oct. 6 game in Shizuoka return fro...

LONDON - Prince Andrew and his former wife Sarah Ferguson have announced the engagement of their elder daughter, Princess Beatrice. They said Thursday that Beatrice is engaged to Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi...

PARIS - Model and singer Pixie Geldof and Louis Vuitton designer Nicolas Ghesquiere watched from Grand Palais' front row Thursday morning in Paris as Chloe put on a spring manifesto in wearable chic. ...

WASHINGTON - More Americans signed contracts to buy homes in August, signalling that low mortgage rates may spark a sustained turnaround for the housing market. The National Association of Realtors sa...

MONTREAL - Andrew Scheer is promising a Conservative government would launch a judicial inquiry to find out what happened during the SNC-Lavalin affair. Scheer made the pledge during a visit to J...

OTTAWA - A Supreme Court of Canada decision has put the brakes on a class-action suit over the rights to property surveys in Ontario. In 2007, Keatley Surveying Ltd. brought the ac...