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NEEPAWA, MANITOBA - A junior men's hockey team in Manitoba is the latest to change its name following a push against the use of Indigenous names and caricatures as mascots. The team in Neepawa, a town...

OTTAWA - The prime minister's intelligence adviser is calling for a expanded definition of national security in an era of global pandemics, climate change and cyberthreats. In a speech sponsored by th...

A council member of the Muslim Association of Canada says thoughts and prayers are not enough. Rania Lawendy says government leaders need to take direct action instead of simply expressing condolences...

ST. LOUIS (AP) - Actress Ellie Kemper has apologized for participating in a debutante ball hosted by a St. Louis organization that she now says had "an unquestionably racist, sexist and elitist past."...

CALGARY - Clarence Wolfleg remembers the day his mother took him to school. It was 1956 and for the next 5 1/2 years he attended the Old Sun Residential School outside Gleichen in southern Alberta. "M...

OTTAWA - Health Minister Patty Hajdu is regulating UV-emitting and ozone-producing cleaning devices she says pose a significant risk to Canadians and don't live up to their claims that they can help k...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Members of Nunavut's legislative assembly voted to pass a bill Monday night that will change the way police oversight works in the territory. The bill amends the Royal Canadian Moun...

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A Southern California man has been charged with murder and shooting at an occupied vehicle in a road rage shooting that killed a 6-year-old boy last month on a freeway. Orange...

OTTAWA - The Minto Cup, Canada's junior A lacrosse championship, has been cancelled for 2021. Lacrosse Canada announced the cancellation on Tuesday, a month after the national body shelved 10 other ch...

UPDATE: The RCMP have reported as of June 10 Utin Whitefish has been found and arrested without incident. He will appear in court in Prince Albert on June 11.-Big River RCMP are asking the public for ...