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VANCOUVER - Prior to last week, the biggest crowd Alphonso Davies had ever spoken in front of was a soccer team. So it was a baptism of fire when the 17-year-old walked out on stage at the Expocentre ...

TORONTO - Newly married and focused on her four-year plan into the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, Melissa Bishop had planned to put kids on hold. But Canada’s world silver medallist in the 800 metres is d...

LETHBRIDGE – Lethbridge Hurricanes General Manager Peter Anholt met with the media on Tuesday, June 19, to release further details about the fire pit explosion in Calgary over the weekend that l...

VANCOUVER - Ryan Hoag spent his first Father’s Day separated from his wife and baby daughter by more than 7,500 kilometres and reams of red tape. Hoag’s family is stuck in Toyko unable to ...

EDMONTON - Defenceman Matt Benning has signed a two-year extension with the Edmonton Oilers. A native of St. Albert, Alta., the 24-year-old Benning had six goals and 15 assists in 73 games with the Oi...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia - Two wins, eight goals and almost certainly a place in the knockout stage for first time since the Soviet era. Russia is enjoying quite the party at its own World Cup - and not...

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says he’s reviewing his tour schedule and his party’s policies in the wake of a federal byelection Monday in Quebec, in which the New Democrats’ vot...

REGINA - The Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations says it is outraged by how the Saskatchewan government and police handled protests outside the provincial legislature. Six people from the Justi...

TORONTO - An Ontario court has ruled that Toronto’s police chief has no right to demand members of the public undergo a search when attending meetings of the force’s board. Justice Jill Co...

The Liberal Party of Alberta is joining the fray now, announcing candidates for two provincial by-elections scheduled for July 12. In Innisfail-Sylvan Lake, where formler MLA Don MacIntyre resigned ea...