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OTTAWA - A cross-party group of MPs, flanked by organizations that help veterans in need, made a plea on the eve of the 75th anniversary of D-Day for the government to end veteran homelessness and cre...

BANGKOK - When Prayuth Chan-ocha led a military coup to take over Thailand's government five years ago, he wore a dowdy officer's uniform. A five-year makeover transformed him into a politician, now s...

LOS ANGELES - Denzel Washington was the man of the hour Thursday night with everyone from Julia Roberts to Spike Lee turning out to celebrate him as this year's recipient of the AFI Life Achievement A...

LAS VEGAS - A lawsuit by a Nevada woman accusing soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo of raping her in 2009 at a Las Vegas Strip resort has been moved from state to federal court in Las Vegas, her lawyer sai...

OTTAWA - Canada's trade minister is downplaying the forthcoming departure of China's outspoken envoy to Ottawa, saying differences between the countries stretch beyond anythin...

OTTAWA - The federal government says it can't measure how many people actually receive emergency-alert messages on their phones. The Alert Ready system is designed to notify C...

OTTAWA - A Senate committee says the Trudeau government's bill to ban oil tanker traffic off British Columbia's northern coast should be scrapped because it will divide the country...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected a bid by Montreal's Saint Joseph's Oratory to be excluded from a sexual assault class action suit. The high court today upheld a Quebec Court of Appea...

The federal government promised Wednesday to spend $15 million over four years to save a tree-planting program in Ontario cancelled by Premier Doug Ford's government. Forests Ontario was informed in t...

FREDERICTON - The head of a wildlife protection group is calling news of a dead right whale in the Gulf of St. Lawrence devastating, saying the loss of even one of the whales ...