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TORONTO - A sharp drop in Americans willing to sign up for their country’s armed forces attributed in part to a steady mass-media diet of wounded soldiers, wars without end, and mistreated veter...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia has turned up the heat in a simmering trade dispute by launching a formal challenge against Alberta’s ban on its wines. The B.C. government said Monday it notified A...

A Ponoka cowboy has won the Rebel Energy Services Xtreme Bulls event in Red Deer to open the Canadian Professional Rodeo Association's 2018 season. Zane Lambert, a Manitoba native, had a solid two-rid...

OTTAWA - Kathryn Young remembers the anger growing within as she listened to their laughter. On the floor of the House of Commons, they were snickering and chortling as a New Democrat MP mentioned a n...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s finance minister shelved the tradition of buying new shoes to present her budget in favour of reading a story Monday to a group of three- and four-year-old youngste...

REGINA - The Saskatchewan Roughriders signed defensive lineman Charleston Hughes to a contract extension through the 2019 season Monday. Saskatchewan acquired Hughes from Hamilton on Feb. 2. The move ...

NEW YORK - Major League Baseball has imposed stricter limits on mound visits by players in an effort to speed games but decided against 20-second pitch clocks for 2018. After more than a year of negot...

TORONTO - A warning from Canada's biggest media companies that their survival is under threat from unregulated foreign rivals and illicit content pirates has sparked a massive influx of submissions to...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 02-17-2018

TORONTO - The president of the union representing Toronto’s firefighters says a fire captain who was found in California after vanishing from a New York state ski slope is back in Canada. Frank ...