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Former Liberal MP Andy Fillmore will be the next mayor of Halifax, fending off challenges from his nearest rivals in a crowded field of candidates to win Saturday's municipal election.

An eastern P.E.I. couple have developed a special bond with a silver fox they helped nurture back to health.

The union representing faculty at Ontario's 24 public colleges says its members have delivered a strong strike mandate. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union says 79 per cent of those who participated in the vote supported a strike mandate.

A Weyburn court has given SaskPower one of the largest fines for a workplace accident in recent Canadian history in the death of two workers in Weyburn four years ago.

The Alberta and federal governments are putting a combined $5.5 million toward attracting tourists to the Rocky Mountain town of Jasper, Alta.

Canada's top court says a legal quirk inserted into Criminal Code by parliamentary amendments prevents judges from imposing driving prohibitions in cases of criminal negligence causing death or bodily harm.

Saskatchewan Party Leader Scott Moe has said if re-elected this month, the party's "first order of business" would be a policy restricting students to change rooms based on their assigned sex at birth. Some advocates and families say trans kids are being used as a political pawn.

After First Nations leaders voted down a resolution to endorse a $47.8B child welfare reform offer, chiefs are calling for the overhaul of the negotiation process.

Two people are facing a host of charges in connection with shots being fired at a Jewish girls elementary school in North York last weekend, Toronto police say.

A number of incumbents have gone down to defeat in Nova Scotia's municipal elections, including some high-profile mayors and a 30-year veteran of municipal politics.

Google Translate is adding a new language to its platform that could serve thousands of people in Ottawa as well as Canada's North: Inuktut. 

Guy Felicella says he was stuck in a cycle of addiction, homelessness and crime for over 30 years, but getting harm reduction help in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside kept him alive long enough to reach recovery. The advocate was in Thunder Bay, Ont., to speak at a conference as the city's only safe drug consumption site is on the chopping block, among several set to close under new Ontario rules.

The Canadian Lacrosse Hall of Fame has removed the membership of Rick Mang, a B.C. coach convicted this month for assaulting a player.

A newly outfitted Canadian vessel loaded with fishery and coast guard officers has headed 12,000 nautical miles (22,200 kilometres) north to the Aleutian islands to patrol the North Pacific.

Three tobacco giants face the prospect of paying close to $25 billion to provinces and territories and more than $4 billion to tens of thousands of Quebec smokers and their loved ones as part of a corporate restructuring process triggered by a long-running legal battle.

Community Services Minister Brendan Maguire is scheduled to meet later this month with officials from Feed Nova Scotia as the organization and food banks around the province face continued and increasing demand for their services.

Five months after announcing an intention to lower the recommended age for breast cancer screenings from 50 to 40, an advocate says that fact that Newfoundland and Labrador hasn't put it into practice shows a lack of care for women's well-being.

As Taylor Swift is set to embark on the Canadian leg of her Eras world tour, scammers are taking advantage of the insatiable demand for tickets to the sold-out shows.