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HALIFAX - A federal program aimed at attracting foreign workers to Atlantic Canada will be extended for another two years. The Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program was supposed to end this year, but fed...

EDMONTON - Alberta Education Minister David Eggen says schools and parents will be able to request exemptions to a ban on seclusion rooms that will take effect this fall. Eggen stresses that regardles...

MONTREAL - The police officers who fatally shot a black man during a 2017 intervention at an east-end Montreal apartment won’t face charges, Quebec’s Crown prosecutors’ office announ...

BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. - Authorities in suburban Detroit are investigating whether someone cheated singer Aretha Franklin by cashing a $178,000 check before her death last August. Oakland County c...

Johnny Manziel could wind up as part of the Alliance of American Football. Or he could not. The new league is in a holding pattern regarding the quarterback who had his contract terminated this week b...

OTTAWA - The federal Justice Department gave the go-ahead Friday for an extradition case against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, marking the formal start of the high-profile process that has put Canada...

A Red Deer County woman is celebrating her good fortune after winning this year's Red Deer Kinsmen Dream Home Lottery. Jolene Bjarnason says she was driving home from work Thursday night when she rece...

PARIS - Balmain celebrated rebellious trouble-makers at Paris Fashion Week Friday in a sexy show with spikes and studs, while Issey Miyake turned fashion design on its head with a fabric that can be m...

Toronto Arrows prop Rob Brouwer came late to rugby and, at age 36, still has high hopes in the sport. The teacher from Lindsay, Ont., is looking to crack Canada’s World Cup roster this fall. ...

TORONTO - With Canada’s wealth of talent on the ice, hockey fans have enjoyed doing this for decades. They’ve scribbled their Olympic dream teams down on bar napkins over beers. They’...