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UPPER KINGSCLEAR, N.B. - What Andrew Scheer bills as innovative policy ideas are in fact deeply rooted in basic conservative fundamentals. Before Thursday, at least nine of the Conservatives' mai...

MONTREAL - A re-elected Liberal government would expand Canadians' eligibility for medically assisted dying with legislation to bring the law into line with a recent court ruling, Liberal Leader Justi...

HALIFAX - The last Sable Island horse in captivity - a stocky, chestnut-coloured male with no name - has died. The 30-year-old animal, which was in declining health, was ...

NEW YORK - A man wielding a long metal object rampaged through New York City early Saturday attacking sleeping homeless people, killing four and leaving a fifth in critical condition. New York Police ...

PARIS - A civilian employee raged through Paris police headquarters with a knife Thursday, stabbing four police colleagues to death before he was shot and killed, French authorities said. The man, a t...

NEW YORK - Twitter and YouTube have removed a video from President Donald Trump that featured an edited Nickelback music video clip that took aim at former Vice-President Joe Biden. Both a Twitter pos...

KAMPALA, Uganda - The Ugandan pop star and opposition figure whose trademark red beret has been banned by the government is urging supporters to defy the order that he calls a "sham." The beret worn b...

BEIJING - Bianca Andreescu's next test figures to be one of her biggest challenges of the year. The Canadian tennis star set up a quarterfinal showdown with Japan's Naomi Osaka on Friday by winni...

LISBON, Portugal - Diogo Freitas do Amaral, a conservative Portuguese politician who played a leading role in cementing the country's democracy after its 1974 Carnation Revolution and later became pre...

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. - Having played nearly every corner of the Earth in a nearly 50-year career, the rock band Kiss is taking its show to a new place _ under the sea, where they will perform for great...