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TORONTO - An Ontario judge blasted the legal system’s lack of resources on Thursday while postponing for nearly a year the trial of five men accused of running a multimillion-dollar financial sc...

TORONTO - A campaign to ban circumcision for infants and children has taken hold in Iceland and Denmark but is far too radical a notion for Canada to consider, say observers here. Despite declining ra...

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - A supervised drug consumption site has opened in Lethbridge, Alta., after the city recorded more than 54 overdoses in recent weeks, some from what police are calling a potent batch...

The Red Deer Vipers routed the Mountainview Colts 7-1 in a wild game Wednesday night that saw 185 penalty minutes dished out in the third period alone. Red Deer solved Colts star goalie Thomas Della-S...

NEW ORLEANS - Be on the lookout for a wraparound tuba: Someone has stolen the signature sousaphone belonging to Preservation Hall in New Orleans. Creative director and musician Ben Jaffe wrote about i...

VANCOUVER - A judge in British Columbia has sentenced an Indigenous woman to four years in prison for manslaughter, but says it doesn’t seem right that incarceration was the best available optio...

Limiting environmental harm is the goal of a newly-approved Lacombe County recycling program. The service will allow for the recycling of large plastic grain bags, something that has been an ongoing i...

SEATTLE - A group looking to bring NHL hockey to Seattle says it has received over 25,000 deposits for season tickets through a ticket drive. The Los Angeles-based Oak View Group said on Twitter that ...

OTTAWA - The largest organization for post-secondary students in Canada is not quite ready to get behind a Liberal threat to consider withdrawing federal funding from universities and colleges that ar...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The three finalists for the Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award as player of the year in U.S. university women’s hockey are from Canada, USA Hockey announced Thursday. Boston...