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MONTREAL - A waitress dismissed for allegedly having a bad attitude and not smiling enough has been awarded $30,000 and must be given her job back, Quebec’s labour tribunal ruled. Caroline Dauna...

EDMONTON - An Alberta legislature member who once sat for the United Conservatives is not being allowed back into the party. On Friday, Derek Fildebrandt was in court in Didsbury, Alta., to face charg...

LONDON - Britain’s film academy has expelled movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, after suspending him last year over sexual misconduct allegations. The academy, known as BAFTA, said Friday that “...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - A judge has denied a bank’s request to be dismissed from a lawsuit filed by former NFL player Darren McFadden. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that McFadden added Simmo...

TORONTO - Commissioner Randy Ambrosie offered a solution Friday to CFL players looking to make more money: Find an off-season job. “Our players at the end of the season are free to work and fran...

OTTAWA - The federal government will open a training facility in the Northwest Territories focused on recruiting women and Indigenous peoples interested in working in the marine sector. The $12.6 mill...

OTTAWA - Only weeks after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada was prepared to offer helicopters, aircraft and hundreds of troops to peacekeeping, the number of Canadians on UN missions reached a...

PARIS - The French mountain climber who was rescued from a Himalayan peak where her climbing partner is presumed to have died was still recovering in a French hospital on Wednesday. Elisabeth Revol ha...

OSIJEK, Croatia - Denis Shapovalov defeated Viktor Galovic 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 Friday to even Canada’s Davis Cup World Group tie against Croatia at 1-1. The 18-year-old from Richmond Hill, Ont., fired...

BATTLEFORD, Sask. - Saskatchewan’s chief justice addressed some inconsistencies Friday in the testimony from key Crown witnesses at the trial of a farmer accused of murdering an Indigenous man. ...