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OTTAWA - The federal Liberal party is looking to turn the tables on the Conservatives over so-called cash-for-access fundraisers. Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is expected to attend a fundraiser a...

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 ...