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OTTAWA - Canada is providing $2.6 million in humanitarian aid for people in Pakistan displaced by flooding, and for Afghan refugees. Pakistan has been grappling since June with floods and heavy monsoo...

VANCOUVER - A First Nation in British Columbia says it was underpaid by millions of dollars in a 2002 settlement with the federal government over land that was given to a different band then sold to a...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is condemning Israel's military strike on Qatar, saying it undermines the country's sovereignty and risks escalating conflict in the region. Israel says it targeted...

CALGARY - The Transportation Safety Board is investigating a derailment in British Columbia involving a Canadian Pacific Kansas City train. It's the second time this month a CPKC train has been involv...

An aviation expert and former pilot says it will be a challenge to repair the WestJet plane that landed roughly in St. Maarten on the weekend and shut down the Caribbean island's airport for a day. Ke...

MONTRAL - Montreal Mayor Valrie Plante has unveiled the names of five new stations that will extend the subway system into the city's east end. Plante says the names were chosen to celebrate women and...

CAIRO (AP) - Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency signed an agreement Tuesday in Cairo to pave the way for resuming cooperation, including on ways of relaunching inspections of Iran's nucle...

WINNIPEG - Canada's agriculture minister says any decision to ease tariffs on electric vehicles from China would have to take into consideration impacts on other sectors. Heath MacDonald says the gove...

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Justice Department on Tuesday charged a man with a lengthy arrest record with the fatal stabbing of a Ukrainian refugee on a North Carolina commuter train last month, meaning he ...

MONTREAL - New polling suggests a public prayer ban is most popular among Quebecers, where 43 per cent of respondents believe organized prayers in public spaces should never be permitted. The Leger po...