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MAKHACHKALA, Russia - A gunman opened fire with a hunting rifle on churchgoers leaving a service in Russia’s Dagestan region, killing five people and wounding four others, then was shot and kill...

REGINA - The Saskatchewan Roughriders signed Canadian free-agent receiver Jake Harty to a two-year contract Sunday. The six-foot-two, 210-pound Calgary native spent his first three CFL seasons with th...

TORONTO - Allegations of sexual misconduct swirling around pop-rockers Hedley have put the spotlight on an industry long defined by the mantra of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll - but several...

NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. - At its peak, the massive red-brick complex with a scenic view of he North Saskatchewan River was a community unto itself. Saskatchewan Hospital, which first opened to patient...

CALGARY - Two years after a blue-ribbon panel called on the Alberta government to encourage partial upgrading of bitumen from the oilsands to enhance value and free up more pipeline room for exports, ...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - With marijuana legalization only months away, members of Nunavut’s new government are finally discussing how the territory will handle the change. “We do feel behind in ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Anne Norris appears an unlikely killer. The former elite Newfoundland athlete, whose father was once the province’s top civil servant, admits she repeatedly hit Marcel R...

PYEONGCHANG, Korea, Republic Of - Russia could lose its chance to be reinstated before the end of the Winter Olympics because of a doping charge against curling bronze medallist Alexander Krushelnitsk...

RIVERVIEW, N.B. - A New Brunswick teenager who turned a terminal prognosis into an online movement that has inspired acts of kindness across the globe has died of brain cancer. Rebecca Schofield of Ri...

AGRA, India - The Canadian government is now seeking a meeting with the Indian politician who publicly accused members of Trudeau’s cabinet of being connected to the Sikh separatist movement. Wh...