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OTTAWA - Four candidates are in the running for leadership of the federal Conservative party, and a winner will be announced Sunday night. Here's a quick look at who they are, in alphabetical order: L...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne is heading to Lebanon this week to get a firsthand look at the devastation caused by this month's deadly explosions in Beirut. The visit w...

OTTAWA - A new research paper says Canadian intelligence assessments on Iraq were generally accurate in the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion of 2003 - unlike reports produced in Was...

NAPLES, Italy - Opera legend Plcido Domingo denied ever abusing his power during his management tenure at two U.S. opera houses in an interview with The Associated Press on Sunday, as he embarks on a ...

BATH, Maine - A 63-day strike at Bath Iron Works - against the backdrop of a pandemic in an election year - came to an end Sunday with shipbuilders voting to return to their jobs producing warships fo...

Peter DeBoer didn't name his starting goaltender for Game 1 of the Vegas Golden Knights' second-round series against the Vancouver Canucks. A tweet Saturday by Marc-Andre Fleury's agent may have given...

The latest numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 11:42 a.m. on Aug. 23, 2020: There are 124,821 confirmed cases in Canada. _ Quebec: 61,673 confirmed (including 5,740 deaths, 54,682 reso...

VIRDEN, Man. - James Blacksmith closes his eyes and goes back to the moment he saw a pine tree viciously uprooted from the earth and topple onto his Jeep's roof. Within seconds, the windows burst from...

OTTAWA - Perrin Beatty was on his way home from the office when his phone rang. It was Chrystia Freeland, who 24 hours earlier had become Canada's finance minister. For the president of the Canadian C...

OTTAWA - The federal Conservative party elects a new leader tonight and whomever wins faces two major challenges right out of the gate. One: the party is the Official Oppostion in the House of Co...