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Vancouver's PuSh Festival is sticking to theatrical tradition that the show must go on, and will stage "The Runner" this month despite the play being cancelled in Victoria over tensions linked to the war between Israel and Hamas, say festival officia

LAKE GEORGE, N.Y. — New York State Police say one person is dead and 11 people are injured after a bus coming from Montreal crashed on Interstate Highway 87 in Lake George, N.Y.

OTTAWA — The plane that flew Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to Jamaica for a family vacation broke down earlier this week, prompting the Canadian military to send a second aircraft with a repair crew to the Caribbean island.

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CALGARY — A youth court judge has granted a one-year peace bond to a 15-year-old Calgary boy who was arrested in October as part of an ongoing national security investigation.

OTTAWA — A major shift in U.S. policy about buying medication from Canada has caused fears north of the border about a potential supply crunch.

OTTAWA — Ask Dave Dawson what his mother, Mary Dawson, was most proud of after nearly 50 years spent as a civil servant and Canada's conflict of interest and ethics commissioner, and the answer comes easy.

YELLOWKNIFE — The call came in around mid-afternoon on one of the last days of December. A team of Royal Canadian Air Force members based in Winnipeg was contacted after the Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre in Trenton, Ont.

OLIVER, B.C. — Police in Oliver, B.C., say they're investigating a "prominent member" of the province's wine industry for an alleged sexual assault on a Mexican migrant worker.

OTTAWA — Federal officials are blocking a pro-democracy activist from Canadian citizenship because a Russian court convicted her for blog posts criticizing the Russian army and opposing Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.