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VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Canucks’ decision not to name a captain this season was “pretty easy,” says head coach Travis Green. The club announced Tuesday it had instead chosen to go ...

OTTAWA - What’s in a name? Lots of jokes, apparently, if it’s the moniker for the revamped North American Free Trade Agreement. While NAFTA rolled off the tongue and became almost as famil...

HALIFAX - Financial controls remain a problem “year after year” at the Nova Scotia Health Authority, where a lack of guidance led to a bill of more than $8,400 for a Christmas party, says ...

EDMONTON - Alberta is ditching its privatized model for road testing and will administer road exams directly to new drivers. Transportation Minister Brian Mason says it’s the best solution to fi...

MONTREAL - The future of the Parti Quebecois, long the pillar of the sovereigntist movement, is shaky after it suffered an unprecedented defeat at the polls Monday. Eric Belanger, professor of politic...

WINNIPEG - The father of a woman whose body was discovered at a recycling depot says the family is devastated by her death. Mary Madeline Yellowback, 33, was a mother of six from God’s River, Ma...

GENEVA - Alibaba founder Jack Ma said Tuesday that the trade dispute between the U.S. and China could last 20 years. But he expressed hope that a solution could be reached as a trade war would “...

Correctional Service Canada (CSC) is reporting the death of an inmate at Bowden Institution. Noah Akhiatak died on Tuesday of natural causes while in CSC custody. At the time of his death, 71-year-old...

AGASSIZ, B.C. - Cpl. Mike Rail says there is no need to exaggerate an RCMP fish story on the rescue of a 2.4-metre sturgeon from a landlocked pond near the Fraser River in British Columbia. He says an...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The struggle for control of the New Brunswick legislature moved to the courts Tuesday with recounts set for two ridings - including one Saint John district where a lawyer for the Pr...