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Toronto police are issuing a warning after a phone fraud scheme recently bilked five people in the city out of a combined $5.1 million, with investigators saying the scam appears to be targeting hundr...

HUALIEN, Taiwan - Taiwanese broadcasters say two Canadians are among those killed in the earthquake that hit the country this week. They say the bodies of a Canadian couple originally from Hong Kong w...

TORONTO - The Toronto Blue Jays have signed Canadian relief pitcher John Axford to a minor-league deal. The deal, announced by the team on Friday, includes an invitation to major league spring trainin...

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Rocky Mountain House RCMP are investigating an armed robbery on the Sunchild First Nation. Mounties say they responded on Jan. 29 around 10 p.m. to a store there. Allegedly, two males entered the stor...

Ontario shed some 59,300 part-time jobs in January, the same month the province hiked minimum wage about 20 per cent to $14 an hour - but experts say it may be too soon to know how much the two are co...

VICTORIA - The British Columbia government moved Friday to tackle widespread teacher shortage issues by funding more than 100 new training spaces, but the teachers’ union says that does little t...

Update: Didsbury RCMP say they’ve made the fifth and final arrest in connection to an alleged kidnapping which took place in January. On February 12, Tanya Dawn Hoomana, 39, of Didsbury turned h...

WINNIPEG - Police in Jamaica say they have made an arrest in the deaths of a husband and wife from Winnipeg a month ago. Melbourne Flake, who was 81, and 70-year-old Etta Flake were found dead in thei...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. - Tennis fans anxiously awaiting Serena Williams’ return to competitive tennis will have to wait one more day. Williams won’t be playing in either of Saturday’s Fed C...