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OTTAWA - A new first-come-first-served online application for immigrants seeking to sponsor their parents and grandparents to come to Canada is being condemned as "profoundly ...

OTTAWA - Vice-Admiral Mark Norman's lawyer is raising the prospect that government officials used several more undisclosed identifiers to refer to her client in internal communications and hide any pa...

OTTAWA - CBC president Catherine Tait is drawing a parallel between Netflix's cultural domination and the colonialism of the British and French empires. The head of the public broadcast...

BEIRUT - Lebanese political factions agreed finally Thursday on the formation of a new government, breaking a nine-month deadlock that only deepened the country' economic woes. Rival political groups ...

NEW YORK - Harvey Weinstein's lawyers said the movie mogul is not a sex trafficker, despite claims in a class-action lawsuit. The lawyers in a court filing late Monday urged U.S. District Judge Alvin ...

TORONTO - Antoine Vermette has retired from the NHL after 14 seasons. The 36-year-old made the announcement through the NHL Players' Association on Thursday. Vermette scored 228 goals and re...

WINNIPEG - An orphaned polar bear rescued in northern Manitoba has died at a zoo in Winnipeg after being put under anaesthetic to investigate an apparent illness. The five-year-old bear...

OTTAWA - A national museum has gone to the mat for fighter Georges St-Pierre to pluck one of his title belts from auction and put it on public display. The Canadian Museum of History says it acqu...

KIEV, Ukraine - A comedian has taken the lead in Ukraine's presidential race, according to the latest polls. A poll by the Razumkov Center shows comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who played the president ...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The woman Richard Oland was having an extramarital affair with has described the anger and then the panic she felt as she tried in vain to reach her multimillionaire lover in the ho...