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OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expressing confidence in RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki after the top Mountie said she is struggling with the definition of systemic racism. Lucki made the co...

Ottawa will spend a further $133 million on helping Indigenous businesses suffering the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the federal government has heard f...

NEW YORK - Charles King's "Gods of the Upper Air," a group biography on such groundbreaking anthropologists as Franz Boas, Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston, has received a prominent history award....

NANAIMO - Local police are concerned about the lengths an allegedly violent man will go to see an ex-girlfriend. David Arlen Thomas is wanted for break and enter and two counts of breaching his probat...

LONDON - Queen Elizabeth II has taken part in her first public video conference call to chat to four carers about the challenges they face looking after people close to them during the coronavirus pan...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Early analysis of vessel speeds in the Cabot Strait shows that almost two-thirds are not complying with a voluntary slowdown meant to protect endangered right whales that migra...

After felling (The Korean Superboy) Dooho Choi last time out in December, Quebec featherweight Charles (Air) Jourdain issued a plea to UFC president Dana White. "Uncle Dana, that was a big performance...

VANCOUVER - Organizers of Vancouver's Pride Parade say all police and corrections officers are barred from this year's event as the organization stands with Black communities demanding accou...

EDMUNDSTON, N.B. - A funeral service is being held today for Chantel Moore, a 26-year-old Indigenous woman who was killed by police in Edmundston, N.B., last week. The private service is being held in...

DAMASCUS, Syria - Syrian President Bashar Assad has fired his prime minister a month ahead of elections as the economic crisis worsens and public anger rises in the territory under his control. Assad ...