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TORONTO - Mark Casse will have three real shots at earning a second career Queen’s Plate win. Casse, Canada’s top trainer the last seven years and 10 times overall, will send Plate Trial w...

OTTAWA - While Donald Trump launched his latest tirade against the familiar Canadian targets of tariffs and dairy, nervous opposition MPs demanded answers on how to defend against the president’...

Milwaukee Bucks guard Sterling Brown sued the city of Milwaukee and its police department Tuesday, saying officers’ use of a stun gun during his arrest for a parking violation constitutes excess...

The Edmonton Eskimos earned two of three top player honours for their performances during the first week of the CFL season. Eskimos quarterback Mike Reilly finished second in voting for top performer ...

OTTAWA - On a day when newly released data showcased in tangible numbers the stark realities of the growing global refugee crisis, the United States - long considered a haven for the oppressed - doubl...

CALGARY- The start of the 2013 floods began was five years today and would eventually effect a large area of southern Alberta, including Calgary. Another hard hit community was High River. The flood f...

TORONTO - Police have identified two men wanted in connection with a daylight shooting at a Toronto playground that sent two young sisters to hospital. Det. Sgt. Jim Gotell says police now believe two...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has nominated Yves Giroux, a career public servant, as the new parliamentary budget officer. The budget watchdog is an independent officer of Parliament whose ap...

VICTORIA - Suman Virk, a grieving mother who “pioneered” the conversation about bullying after her daughter was murdered, has died in Victoria. Virk was 58 years old. She was the mother of...

HAMILTON - A homeowner’s assertion that his training as a military reservist prompted him to head outside into the frigid darkness and shoot dead a man trying to steal his truck makes little sen...