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OTTAWA — The federal government will not appeal the court decision that tore up cabinet approval for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion and is appointing former Supreme Court justice Frank Iacobucci to oversee a new round of consultations with Indigenous communities. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government will follow the “blueprint” laid out by […]

China has released panoramic photos of the far side of the moon after a Chinese spacecraft made the world’s first successful landing there earlier this month. The China National Space Administration has published 360-degree panoramic photos taken by a camera installed atop the Chang’e 4 probe, showing the gray, pock-marked surface of the moon. The […]

OTTAWA — Grim scenarios of collateral damage for Canadian consumers and businesses are emerging in response to escalating the U.S.-China trade war. The Trump administration has taken aim at China by imposing a 25 per cent tariff on goods worth U.S. $34 billion, but the worst is still on the horizon. The U.S. has announced […]

The commander of the US Navy’s longest serving submarine has demoted for hiring prostitutes in the Philippines. Captain Travis Zettel commanded the nuclear-powered attack submarine USS Bremerton. According to an investigation by the US Naval Criminal Investigative Service the captain told a fellow sailor he had "ordered ten girls to arrive at the hotel" while […]

Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced his government will cancel a program requiring drivers to get regular emissions tests for vehicles that are more than seven years old. “Drive Clean has outlived its usefulness,” Ford said at a press conference at an auto body shop in Etobicoke. Drivers will no longer be required to get Drive […]

When my engagement was called off, I was the most devastated person walking the earth. At first I acted like it was no big a deal; after all, I was not the first to have a broken engagement and neither would I be the last. I had forced smiles for most of the first few […]

Roger Stone, a longtime confidant of Donald Trump, was "directed" by a senior official on the president’s 2016 campaign team, to seek emails damaging to Hillary Clinton from Wikileaks, prosecutors have claimed. Mr Stone, 66, was arrested on Friday in a pre-dawn raid by heavily armed FBI agents in night-vision goggles at his home in Florida. He […]

US Senator Cory Booker on Friday declared his bid for the presidency in 2020 with a sweeping call to unite a deeply polarized nation around a “common purpose.” The New Jersey Democrat, who is the second black candidate in a primary field that’s already historically diverse, delivered his message of unity amid an era marked by […]

More than two in three Metro Vancouver residents want to see housing prices fall, and some of them are people who actually own homes, according to a new poll from the Angus Reid Institute. Greater Vancouver’s housing market has been ranked North America’s least affordable, with the median home price being 11 times the median […]

HUMBOLDT, Sask. — A tragic bus crash that has sunk a Saskatchewan community into deep sorrow has also released an incredible display of human kindness as residents struggle to deal with their grief. Sixteen people died, including 10 players, and another 13 were injured after a transport truck and the bus taking the Humboldt Broncos […]