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HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's health minister says three hospital staff were injured in an assault by a patient this afternoon at the Halifax Infirmary emergency department. Halifax police say they responde...

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is directing the opening of a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold up to 30,000 migrants who are living illegally in the United St...

OTTAWA - A lawyer for Abousfian Abdelrazik accused the federal government of "serial hypocrisies" as closing arguments began on his client's lawsuit over his prolonged detention in Sudan. Paul Champ a...

OTTAWA - Canadian international trade lawyers say that if the U.S. follows through on President Donald Trump's threat to impose massive tariffs on Canada as early as Saturday, Ottawa could hit back wi...

JASPER, ALTA. - The Insurance Bureau of Canada says last year's wildfire in Jasper, Alta., which destroyed one-third of the town's homes and buildings, is the second costliest fire disaster in the cou...

OTTAWA - The six candidates running for Liberal leadership have now all registered with Elections Canada, which monitors their fundraising activities as political leadership contestants under the law....

HONOLULU (AP) - A last-minute deal reached between lawyers representing victims of a deadly Hawaii wildfire has averted the need for a trial to determine how to split a $4 billion settlement. The unus...

Houston Rockets forward Dillon Brooks was fined $25,000 by the NBA Wednesday for using profane language during a post-game television interview. The offending comments came when Brooks and sophomore g...

TORONTO - An Ontario judge has begun hearing arguments about whether to approve a landmark $32.5-billion settlement that would see three major tobacco companies compensate provinces, territories and e...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - The leader of the former rebel group that toppled Syrian President Bashar Assad last month was named on Wednesday the country's interim president, following a meeting of the for...