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OTTAWA - Canada’s national inflation rate was 1.4 per cent in October, Statistics Canada says. Here’s what happened in the provinces and territories (previous month in brackets): - Newfoun...

OTTAWA - The annual pace of inflation cooled in October as the cost of gasoline came back down after spiking higher in September when hurricane Harvey forced the shutdown of oil refineries in Texas. S...

HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. - At first, it was an orange traffic cone with a weed growing out of it. Now, the roadside attraction dubbed “Cone Weed” is something of a Christmas miracle to locals. W...

LONG BEACH, N.Y. - Officials say they will try to herd a wayward humpback whale that has been seen swimming in a Long Island channel back to the Atlantic Ocean. Atlantic Marine Conservation Society sc...

HALIFAX - Atlantic Canada’s long-held dream of wooing the CFL east of Montreal has been reignited after the league confirmed it’s in talks with a “professional, enthusiastic and impr...

The five men who met on Nov. 26, 1917 to form the National Hockey League could not have dreamed of the 31-team, multi-billion-dollar enterprise it would become a century later. That day the owners of ...

SHANGHAI - Supermodel Gigi Hadid says she will not be walking the Victoria’s Secret fashion show in Shanghai next week, a few months after Chinese internet users accused her of racist behaviour....

COPENHAGEN - A 22-year-old Norwegian student has been handed a 250,000-kroner ($30,400) fine for drunken driving - but can still count herself lucky. Katharina G. Andresen is reportedly Norway’s...

Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 11-17-2017

Six stories in the news for Friday, Nov. 17 --- ONTARIO LIBERALS SEEK TO END COLLEGE STRIKE The Ontario legislature is normally quiet on Fridays, but will reconvene today as the Liberal government tri...