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OTTAWA - A new report on the country's highest-paid CEOs is adding evidence to the argument that women face a "double-pane glass ceiling" at the top of Canada's corporate ladder - first in g...

MONTREAL - A character playing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes a drag from a joint and is suddenly transported into a fantasy world where he is dressed in traditional Indian clothin...

OTTAWA - The federal government's big-ticket efforts to support high-growth tech firms are offering little for emerging companies that have already outgrown the fledgling start-up phase...

DONKIN, N.S. - Operations have been suspended at Cape Breton's Donkin coal mine after a roof collapse, the latest in a string of incidents since last July, according to the provincial Labour Departmen...

SEATTLE - Two more Puget Sound orcas are ailing and probably will be dead by summer, according an expert on the critically endangered population of killer whales that live in the waters of the Pacific...

WASHINGTON - A vocal critic of Canada's trade agreement with the United States and Mexico has been re-elected as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the first woman in history to hold the ga...

WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg man who police believe was high on meth faces public mischief charges after almost seven dozen false 911 calls that included a report of a family being sexually assaulted. P...

CALGARY - The arrival of a family of giant pandas to the Calgary Zoo last spring created a stampede of visitors once the guests on loan from China were introduced to an eager public. The zoo surp...

VANCOUVER - The District of West Vancouver is shutting clothing donation bins and looking at options to either make them more secure or remove them following the death of a man on ...

OTTAWA - Internal government documents show federal officials have quietly probed ways to boost job numbers for Indigenous Peoples, newcomers and Canadians with disabilities to prevent a spike in econ...