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BUDAPEST, Hungary - Justina Di Stasio knew dropping into a lower weight class for the world wrestling championships would come with challenges. There would be changes to her training to focus on quick...

TORONTO - Stompin’ Tom’s iconic sports anthem “The Hockey Song” is being immortalized in the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame. The catchy ditty celebrating “the good ol&...

TRURO, N.S. - Ottawa’s Rachel Homan needed an extra end to topple Switzerland’s Silvana Tirinzoni 8-7 on Wednesday in round-robin play at the Masters curling tournament. Homan, a three-tim...

Winnipeg residents have voted against reopening the city’s most famous intersection to pedestrians. The story of Portage and Main began when Henry McKenney purchased a low and swampy parcel of l...

BOISE, Idaho - Comedian Chelsea Handler endorsed Paulette Jordan, a Democrat and Native American woman running for governor of Idaho, in a Twitter post but included a photo of the wrong Native America...

Quebec’s new Coalition Avenir Quebec government says it will go a step further in restricting religious symbols, prohibiting all public servants from wearing the chador, niqab or burka. The ban ...

CHICAGO - Fresh off his bizarre Oval Office visit with President Donald Trump, hip-hop megastar Kanye West drew a crowd when he joined a Democratic mayoral hopeful and Chance the Rapper in a sidewalk ...

Toronto’s lack of affordable housing is a pressing problem that should receive some immediate attention from both the provincial and federal governments, the city’s newly re-elected mayor ...

Improving the health and ecology of the Blindman River is the aim behind a new initiative underway in central Alberta. On Tuesday, officials with Lacombe County, Red Deer River Watershed Alliance (RDR...

TORONTO - The premier of Ontario received death threats and his labour minister had her constituency office vandalized hours after a sweeping labour reform bill was introduced in the legislature, the ...