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OTTAWA - Federal health researchers are looking to mine social media to more quickly identify suicide-related behaviours, instead of relying on woefully outdated data. What the Public Health Agency of...

An alert passerby is being credited with helping the occupants of a Penhold home that went up in flames early this morning escape without injury. Penhold fire crews were dispatched at about 4 a.m. to ...

Two vehicles were stolen in Rocky Mountain House this week, in addition to one intoxicated driving incident. — On August 24 at 12:44 p.m., police received a complaint of a female screaming and s...

LONDON - Prince Harry sang and joked with Lin-Manuel Miranda on the stage of “Hamilton,” after he and his wife Meghan joined audiences for a gala charity performance of the smash-hit music...

LONDON - More than a third of films at this year’s London Film Festival were directed by women, organizers said Thursday as they revealed the schedule for the October movie extravaganza. The fes...

NEW ORLEANS - An attorney plans to sue actor Brad Pitt’s foundation over the degradation of homes built in an area of New Orleans that was among the hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. The forthco...

NASEBY, New Zealand - Canadian curlers Jennifer Jones and Brent Laing are off to a winning start to the season. The husband-and-wife team downed Scotland’s Jayne Stirling and Fraser Kingan 9-5 i...

WASHINGTON - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says the time has come for high-level decisions on the future of NAFTA. She said Thursday that around-the-clock work by officials has armed nego...

ATHENS, Greece - Greece’s culture minister says Greek-French film director Costa Gavras has died in Paris at the age of 85. Culture Minister Mysini Zorba announced the filmmaker’s death in...

TORONTO - Ask Steven Beitashour about the advantages of playing for Los Angeles FC and the former Toronto FC fullback reels off a shopping list of reasons. Weather. LAFC’s state-of-the-art facil...