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OTTAWA - When a team gives up six sacks in a game, it’s natural to blame the offensive line. Last Friday in a 26-14 loss to the B.C. Lions in Vancouver, Ottawa Redblacks starting quarterback Tre...

ELROSE, Sask. - RCMP have ruled out alcohol as a factor in the June 29 crash that killed six people near a community in southwest Saskatchewan. A former Humboldt Broncos player and his young family fr...

MONTREAL - Advertising rates for Montreal Canadiens games have plummeted due to audience fallout after the Habs’ lacklustre performance last season, one media company says. The RDS and TVA Sport...

OTTAWA - It was seven years ago this week that the federal government told new mom Jennifer McCrea she couldn’t access sickness benefits while on maternity leave. On Tuesday, the government publ...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors declined to file charges Tuesday against Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys after a singer reported last year that she had been raped in 2003. The woman, Melissa Schuman of t...

TORONTO - An environmental advocacy group is turning to the courts in an effort to halt the Ontario government’s plan to scrap the province’s cap-and-trade system, alleging the lack of con...

WINNIPEG - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’s happy that Manitoba has put a price on carbon emissions even though the province doesn’t plan to keep pace with Ottawa’s climate ch...

OTTAWA - Rohingya women and girls who survived a genocide in Myanmar are facing new risks in refugee camps in Bangladesh and need more help from nations like Canada, according to a new report from Oxf...

OTTAWA - Italy’s Alessia Nobilio has a two-shot lead after the opening round of the world junior girls golf championship. Nobilio, ranked 22nd in the world amateur rankings, shot a 6-under 66 at...

TORONTO - As a dispute over the size of Toronto council escalated into a full-fledged legal battle between the city and the province, candidates running in the fall municipal election said Tuesday the...