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VICTORIA - A coroner’s inquest will be held into the suicide of an RCMP officer who was in charge of media relations in British Columbia when Robert Dziekanski was fatally stunned with a Taser a...

RED DEER- Night closures will be in effect for Highway 2A (Taylor Drive), from 19 Street to south of the QE2/Highway 2A turn-off, each night from July 23 to July 27 (weather dependent). The closures w...

NEW YORK - The New York tabloid Daily News cut half of its newsroom staff Monday including Jim Rich, the paper’s editor in chief. The paper was sold to Tronc Inc. last year for $1, with the owne...

TORONTO - When Justyn Knight ran an impressive 5,000-metre time as a high schooler at St. Michael’s College, his coach Frank Bergin told him to clear out a drawer to store all the college recrui...

KEY WEST, Fla. - After eight previous tries, the husband of celebrity chef Paula Deen has won the Hemingway Look-Alike Contest held in the city where writer Ernest Hemingway lived and wrote during the...

WALTHAM, Mass. - A former star of “The Dukes of Hazzard” television show has pleaded guilty to inappropriately touching two women in the cast of a musical in Massachusetts in which he star...

OTTAWA - Political leaders at all levels offered comforting words and pledged to work together following Sunday’s deadly shooting in Toronto, even as a new Statistics Canada report indicated gun...

Toronto’s vibrant Greektown neighbourhood is best known by locals for its for bustling patios, a massive summer food festival and a plethora of dogs and strollers clogging sidewalks. It features...

TORONTO - Sunday’s deadly rampage in Toronto marks the latest in a growing list of fatal shootings in the city. Gun deaths had accounted for 23 of Toronto’s 52 homicides this year - compar...

ATLANTA - A Georgia lawmaker is the latest public figure caught with his pants down on provocateur Sacha Baron Cohen’s new cable TV series, this time literally, as the state legislator exposes h...