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OTTAWA - Half of the 16 million Canadians trying to reach one of three government agencies by telephone are unable to speak to live humans, according to Canada's interim auditor general. In a new...

HALIFAX - An international exchange student who was injured in a high school rugby match in Cape Breton last week says he's feeling "really good" after being released from hospital. Diego Kuri, a 16-y...

MONTREAL - Canada is holding out hope it can collaborate with the Trump administration on Arctic challenges even though the United States has blocked the Arctic Council from issuing a unanimous declar...

OTTAWA - The RCMP isn't sure that all its officers have access to the rifles and body armour needed to respond to an active shooter, almost five years after three Mounties were gunned down i...

The City of Melfort is moving forward with changes to allow for duplexes in an area of the city that currently does not permit them.A big topic of conversation at the regular council meeting Monday, M...

OTTAWA - Acting auditor general Sylvain Ricard has found Canada's refugee system is plagued with a backlog of asylum claims that is worse now than it has ever been, caused in part by systemic ine...

OTTAWA - A Canadian senator who has spent four decades advocating for the rights of vulnerable people in Canadian prisons says a new bill that purports to end solitary confinement should be ...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a B.C. byelection win for the Green party shows Canadians are "preoccupied" by climate change. Trudeau says it will be really important for Canadi...

LONDON - Former "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson says Julian Assange "does not deserve to be in a supermax prison" after visiting the WikiLeaks founder behind bars. Assange is in London's Belmarsh Pris...

GENEVA - The U.N. human rights office is praising the release of Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo from prison in Myanmar, but says a "very dire situation" remains for freedom of expression ...