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OTTAWA - An analysis by one of Canada's biggest banks says the federal government is on track to run $150 billion in budgetary deficits over the next five years.

Higher than usual vacancies along Granville Street’s entertainment district in downtown Vancouver, and the surging number of tech workers moving into the area, is renewing calls for a reboot of the southern blocks of the street that have long hosted the city’s edgiest nightlife. Some of the larger nightclubs have been finding it challenging to attract enough regular business on a nightly basis, said Charles Gauthier, the CEO and president of the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association (DVBIA). Читать дальше...

The impasse drew strong words from the United Nations refugee agency, which warned that Europe 'is on the cusp of a largely self-induced humanitarian crisis'

Studying Kelly — and his identical twin who spent the year on Earth — will help us figure out what challenges astronauts might face on even longer trips

WASHINGTON - By late tonight, Donald Trump could have more than one-third of the delegates he'll need to win the U.S. Republican nomination, leaving his rivals precious little time to elbow him off-course before he reaches the finish line.

Rajendra Pachauri, is accused of stalking and sexually harassing a woman who worked at the New Delhi environmental think-tank he’s headed for decades

On Feb. 14, a self-driving Lexus SUV hit the side of a public bus near the company’s headquarters in California. But Google says the crash was 'not black and white'

Critics argue that erecting a looming million-dollar immobile steel wheel in a district with the lowest median annual income in Canada represents a huge waste of money

Millionaire homeowners cashing out of Metro Vancouver’s red-hot real estate market are seeking greener pastures elsewhere in B.C. Real-estate experts say they’re seeing more city slickers selling off their urban homes and heading north or east to buy hobby farms and acreages, where they can live off the land with cash to spare.

'I urge you to usher in a new era of fiscal responsibility and kindness by ending federal subsidies of the commercial seal slaughter,' the former Baywatch star urged the prime minister

The body of white woman in her 40s was found behind the home in Palaiseau, a tony suburb of Paris. She was wearing a 'ring with a large stone' on her finger

The will was recovered from the compound in Pakistan where the al-Qaida chief was killed. Although it refers to $29M in Sudan, it is not clear where that money is now

Canada's economy grew by 0.8 per cent in the fourth quarter, beating expectations of flat growth, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday

The nation's constitution, adopted four years after World War II in reaction to its Nazi past, allows for the outlawing of parties that seek to topple democracy

The project has run into stiff opposition in Quebec, with the mayors of Montreal and other municipalities arguing that environmental risks outweigh the economic rewards

Scientists may have evidence that Zika can cause temporary paralysis, according to a study of patients who developed the rare condition in Tahiti two years ago

Cable and satellite TV companies are now required to offer their customers a basic service package for $25 or less

Do you sometimes find yourself losing focus on the job? Is your thinking a little fuzzy? It could be something in the air – and you and your co-workers may be the source

Rare art, original comics, prized love letters, vintage newspapers, fancy jewelry — home contractors are used to finding odd treasures behind walls and under floors.   But in mid-February, Alif Babul and his brand new employee Dean Materi noticed something extra unusual amid a dusty pile of rubble while ripping apart a Calgary home’s bathroom.  It […]

Snowfall is expected to start late Tuesday morning and become heavier into the day, the worst being at night. 25 cm of heavy snow could be on the ground by Wednesday

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - After years of wrangling, a legal fight will play out in a Florida courtroom between former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan and the news and gossip website Gawker over a sex tape the celebrity made with the wife of radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge Clem.

The 49-year-old actress said Mozart, a Belgian Malinois, was a loving and loyal companion and didn’t deserve a slow and painful death

The yacht was apparently owned by a German adventurer identified as Manfred Fritz Bajorat, but investigators still have to determine whether he was the dead man

WASHINGTON - A Brooklyn jurist has scolded the government in a stinging rebuke of arguments it has used to shame Apple for refusing to surrender information from its customers' iPhones, saying it's stretching a 1789 law to get "impermissibly absurd results."

A new cross-sectoral group that includes business leaders, labour, non-governmental organizations, government and academics says it's time to seriously accelerate the transition to a high-efficiency, low carbon economy and make Canada a global environmental brand.