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SANTA CLARITA, Calif. - A student pulled a gun from his backpack and opened fire at a Southern California high school Thursday, killing two students and wounding three others before shooting himself i...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau campaigned for re-election on a promise to support abortion rights, a stance that put his Conservative rival on the defensive, and now advocates are an...

TORONTO - Canadian National Railways conductors, trainpersons and yardpersons have given strike notice ahead of a Tuesday deadline. The union, which represents 3,200 workers, provided the 72...

OTTAWA - Parliament's budget watchdog warns that rougher economic waters will mean a deeper federal deficit, with no certainty on how much deeper. In a report Thursday, the parliamentary budget office...

MADRID - Spain's government announced Thursday that Catalan poet Joan Margarit won the 2019 Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honour. Margarit, who is also an architect, h...

OTTAWA - The last group of former Liberal senators in Parliament's upper chamber are rebranding themselves as the Progressive Senate Group. The nine senators say they have adopted the new name to...

OTTAWA - A Quebec naturopath is not guilty of manslaughter or criminal negligence in the death of a patient, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. Roger Matern, an 84-year-old with heart di...

DES MOINES, Iowa - The family of Iowa Supreme Court Chief Justice Mark Cady says he has died of a heart attack at age 66. Cady's family says in a statement posted on the court's website that he died u...

Here are the results from Friday...WHLKamloops 1, Prince George 0Spokane 4, Portland 3 (OT)Medicine Hat 4, Red Deer 3 (SO)Victoria 3, Lethbridge 2-SJHLFlin Flon 9, Notre Dame 3Humboldt 5, La Ronge 0Ki...

MONTREAL - The Montreal Impact named French soccer legend Thierry Henry as head coach of the Major League Soccer team on Thursday, signing the former striker to a two-year contract with an o...