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OTTAWA - Canada's new foreign affairs minister hit the ground running this weekend, spending an hour in face-to-face talks with his Chinese counterpart over the fate of two Canadian men that the Trude...

MONTREAL - Former Desjardins Group president Claude Beland has died at the age of 87, the Quebec-based financial institution confirmed Sunday. Beland was elected to the head of Desjardins in 1987 and ...

We can once again call Lacombe's senior hockey team the Generals.Formerly the North Central Hockey League's Eckville Eagles, the franchise relocated to Lacombe over the summer. However, there was stil...

NEW YORK - Diahann Carroll was remembered as a brilliant talent, a loving friend and mother and a trailblazer by the likes of Cicely Tyson, Laurence Fishburne, Angela Bassett, Lenny Kravitz and more a...

WASHINGTON - Defence Secretary Mark Esper has fired the secretary of the Navy in connection with the controversy over a SEAL whose case has been championed by President Donald Trump. A Pentagon spokes...

CALGARY - Football players prefer to call them pre-game rituals rather than superstitions, but some Winnipeg Blue Bombers and Hamilton Tiger-Cats players are particular about what they do in...

A Red Deer business manager is encouraging others to help deter crime by registering for the RCMP's CAPTURE program.Launched last July, Community Assisted Policing Through Use of Recorded Evidence (CA...

NEW YORK - U.S. health officials on Friday told people to avoid romaine lettuce grown in Salinas, California, because of another food poisoning outbreak. The notice comes almost exactly one year after...

TORONTO - Kermit Davis didn't coach Terence Davis in his rookie season at the University of Mississippi. But he sure knows the player's scoring average from that year. "TD averaged one point a ga...

NAPLES, Fla. - Sei Young Kim hit the putt of her life, a 25-foot birdie on the final hole of the CME Group Tour Championship to win $1.5 million, the richest prize in the history of women's golf. Kim ...