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LONDON - Maggie O'Farrell won the Women's Prize for Fiction on Wednesday for "Hamnet," a novel that explores the lives of William Shakespeare's often-maligned wife and lost son. O'Farrell's novel beat...

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says growth in spending on federal employees has more to do with the amounts spent per worker and not because there are more workers to spend on. Spending on ...

LONDON - Diana Rigg, a commanding British actress whose career stretched from iconic 1960s spy series "The Avengers" to fantasy juggernaut "Game of Thrones," has died. She was 82. Rigg's agent, Simon ...

NEW YORK - Actor Anthony Rapp and another man filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against actor Kevin Spacey, accusing him of sexual assaults in the 1980s when they were teens. Rapp, who starred in "Rent" on...

Any change to the Oscars is going get people talking, so the leaders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences were not exactly surprised that the new best picture inclusion standards became ...

OTTAWA - Canada's election watchdog says former finance minister Bill Morneau broke the law when he promoted Liberal candidates at events he attended while in charge of the finance portfolio. The comm...

OTTAWA - Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the quarantine system is "broken" because federal health officers are not charging people ignoring self-isolation orders for COVID-19. Since the end of Mar...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says a doctor's libel case over email remarks by a lawyer can go ahead. The ruling today is expected to clarify when such lawsuits are warranted and when they are&...

A woman responsible for a potentially disastrous incident north of Prince Albert last year, has said she is very sorry, and is devastated by the knowledge she could have hurt two young children.Tanya ...

Quebec will impose fines on people who fail to respect COVID-19 health directives, including the requirement for masks in indoor public spaces. Premier Francois Legault announced today&...