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VICTORIA - Nick Nurse's challenge to Scottie Barnes heading into this past off-season was to keep improving his game. Pretty straightforward, but not necessarily so easy coming off an outstanding rook...

TORONTO - Win or lose, the Toronto Blue Jays were planning to celebrate on Friday night. The Blue Jays clinched a playoff berth Thursday afternoon when the Baltimore Orioles lost to the Boston Red Sox...

THE COLONY, Texas (AP) - Charley Hull has forced herself to work a little harder on the putting and she saw it pay off Friday with eight birdies in her round of 7-under 64 to take the early 36-hole le...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly says she will release Canada's long-delayed Indo-Pacific strategy this year. She says the strategy will be shaped by a major meeting the Chinese governmen...

A move by Canadian bobsled and skeleton athletes to unseat Sarah Storey ended abruptly with no resolution on Thursday. Storey, the president of the board of Bobsleigh Canada Skeleton and the federatio...

EDMONTON - After years of negotiations, the Alberta government signed an agreement Friday with a First Nations group committing to return an ancient meteorite to its historic location after being disp...

VANCOUVER - If you squint really, really hard, you can still see a possible path to the playoffs for the Vancouver Whitecaps. The club needs a lot of results to go its way, however, starting with a wi...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Russia vetoed a U.N. resolution Friday that would have condemned its referendums in four Ukrainian regions as illegal, declared them invalid and urged all countries not to recogn...

WASHINGTON - Vladimir Putin's claim to parts of Ukraine is little more than "political theatre" with "no legitimacy," Canada and the United States declared Friday, and should have no impact on how bes...

HALIFAX - The impact of post-tropical storm Fiona on Atlantic Canada's fishing industry is still being tallied, but Osborne Burke already knows it will cost almost $2 million to repair a major seafood...