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For the first time in over a decade, Quebec has elected a separatist party in its provincial elections, even though most Quebecers don’t want to secede from Canada.

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Leading figures in the push for Alberta separation are celebrating the election of Quebec premier-designate Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, saying the victory bodes well for Alberta independence.

Eva Marie Saint, the pale, willowy actor who won an Academy Award for her first movie, On the Waterfront, and starred opposite Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller North by Northwest, has died.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation on Tuesday into whether Fruit of the Loom and Hanes use toxic chemicals in producing ‌children's underwear.

Christa Pike, a Tennessee inmate who survived Tennessee's attempt to execute her, is awake and speaking as she receives treatment at a hospital, her attorneys said Tuesday.

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The influencer, who goes by Abeeeer on popular Chinese social media platform Rednote, or Xiaohongshu, posted a "sincere apology" for violating the rules Saturday to her 520,000 followers, explaining that she was feeling physically unwell during the race b…

A California couple has been arrested on child abuse charges following an investigation into an surrogacy scheme involving at least 21 children ranging in age from a few months to 13 years, authorities said Tuesday.

Viewers of Big Brother UK are criticizing its contestants after the show aired a tense debate about transgender rights, pronouns, single-sex bathrooms and trans athletes in sports.

Justice Minister Sean Fraser says the Liberal government will announce its planned path forward for medical assistance in dying on Wednesday.

Christine Fréchette, Quebec’s outgoing premier, announced Tuesday that she will be stepping down as leader of the Coalition Avenir Québec party.

Meetings between advocates of Alberta separation and American government officials don't have to be included in Canada's new foreign influence registry because they took place before the registry went into effect, says Canada's foreign influence watchdog.

A former high-ranking Department of Justice official will look at how Cornell handles sexual misconduct complaints, university trustees announced Tuesday as they tried to address an outpouring of anger over allegations of a 2024 gang rape at a fraternity…

A series of audio stories, released as part of a new NHL marketing campaign and presented like popular hockey romance novels, is no longer available on Spotify after drawing widespread criticism.

Prime Minister Mark Carney said the morning after the separatist Parti Québécois's electoral victory that the province and Canada can together fight for the prosperity of their people to ensure "we can live the way we want to live."

A U.S. appeals court has upheld the verdict and sentence for one of the men found guilty of human smuggling in a case that led to a family of four from India freezing to death while attempting to cross the Manitoba-U.S. border in 2022.

The World Health Organization says Russian authorities told it that no cases ‌of plague had been detected among anyone who had come into contact with a Siberian plague institute laboratory worker who died last week.

Canadian actor Simu Liu, star of Marvel's Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, has tied the knot, marrying music industry executive Allison Hsu.

Nearly 12,000 bans took place in American public schools over the past year, according to a new study from PEN America, the highest total since the free expression organization began tracking removals five years ago.

Direct spending on the Canadian military could reach $163.6 billion by 2035 under the Liberal government's proposal to meet NATO's benchmark target of five per cent of GDP, the Parliamentary Budget Office in a new report on Tuesday.

An 18-year-old resident of Yorkton, Sask., is facing terrorism charges for allegedly posting videos as a member of 764, a listed terrorist entity in Canada.

The Emmy Awards are moving to Prime Video starting in 2027 in a six-year deal struck between Amazon and the Television Academy that ends a seven-decade run of broadcast networks airing the ceremony.

Skydance-owned Paramount has closed its $81 billion US takeover of Warner Bros.

Ottawa has given the U.S. owner of Stelco five business days to share a plan to maintain jobs at the Hamilton steelmaker or face potential legal action.

Expect lots of tears when Lionel Messi plays a farewell game for Argentina on Tuesday.

The new company will operate as Emera and maintain its public company headquarters in Halifax.

After pausing work at the Martin Gallant Building in Stephenville Crossing this past summer, the Newfoundland and Labrador government says the building needs to be demolished, axing plans for it to become the new courthouse and provincial government servi…

Canada's trade surplus with the U.S. hit a 19-month high in August, Statistics Canada reported on Tuesday.

Former Conservative Member of Parliament Chris Alexander has dropped out of the race to become Toronto's next mayor.

Students, teachers and parents are marching in cities across France and protesters are blockading hundreds of schools, in the biggest day of action in a wave of demonstrations demanding the government tackle understaffed ‌and dilapidated classrooms.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev said two commercial vessels were struck by drones on Tuesday in the first attack on shipping in the NATO member's exclusive economic zone in the Black Sea.

Belgian American particle physicist Francis Halzen was announced as the winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday in Stockholm.

Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful The PTL Club TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died.

Three ash trees killed by the emerald ash borer now stand upside down at the Fredericton Botanic Garden.

A researcher on sexual violence says it's good that people are talking about the inappropriate banner displayed on an off-campus house during St.

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For weeks, posters and stickers across Ottawa advertising the anti-immigration group Dominion Society of Canada — which is calling for mass deportations of millions of people — have been generating complaints of racism and white nationalism.

A giant underwater wave of water connected to this year's El Niño weather pattern is making its way up the west coast of the Americas, raising alarm bells amongst scientists worried about how climate change is magnifying the impacts of the naturally-occur…

Self-described "Crypto King" Aiden Pleterski's fraud and money laundering trial will begin Tuesday morning in Toronto.

Thirty-two years after a 10-year-old boy was tied to a tree and sexually assaulted, an audio tape of his September 1994 police interview was played for the jury Monday at the trial of his alleged attacker.

Food manufacturers and fast food companies are cramming whey protein into everything.

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Former UBC professor and bestselling author Steven Galloway claims he was defamed by false accusations of sexual assault made by multiple people over a decade ago.

A Toronto lawyer who co-founded a law firm with his wife that collapsed in a spectacular flameout three years ago, when millions of dollars of client money was discovered missing from the firm's trust account, is on trial on a charge of fraud stemming from

A Royal Canadian Air Force sergeant who refused to leave a restricted area of Winnipeg's 17 Wing has been found not guilty of assaulting the military police officers who had removed her from the base using what a martial court ruled involved the use of ex…

An unnerving story has emerged from southeastern Russia involving the death of 28-year-old woman from pneumonia and fears that she may have been exposed to a form of plague at the lab where she worked.

The Liberal government plans to transform its year-old Defence Investment Agency into a Crown corporation, giving it greater independence and potentially sweeping powers to accelerate military purchases.

This University of Alberta student isn’t real, but the AI-generated video is being used to promote Alberta separatism ahead of the Oct. 19 provincial referendum.