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REGINA - He’ll be wearing green and white for the Labour Day Classic, but Willie Jefferson will be playing for his hometown and the state of Texas. “If I make a big play, it’ll be fo...

MADRID - Emergency officials in Madrid have lifted their warning to residents living near an industrial fire to remain in their homes to avoid a toxic cloud. Madrid’s emergency services said via...

CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico - Tropical Storm Lidia weakened into a depression as it marched up Mexico’s Baja California Peninsula on Saturday after flooding streets and homes in resort cities, strand...

BRUNSWICK, Maine - One of the oldest-known Native American birch-bark canoes will go on display at a Maine historical society museum, possibly as early as this fall. Carbon dating by the Pejepscot His...

HAMILTON - Defensive back Craig Butler retired as a player from the Canadian Football League on Saturday and joined the Hamilton Tiger-Cats staff as an assistant coach. The six-foot-one, 201-pound nat...

CARACAS, Venezuela - A prominent anti-government activist was barred from leaving Venezuela on Saturday for planned meetings with European leaders, dealing a setback to opposition attempts to rally in...

VENICE, Italy - The last time Israeli director Samuel Maoz came to the Venice Film Festival, he won the top prize with his first feature film. Then, his main feeling was shock. Eight years later he...

NAIROBI, Kenya - Seven girls died early Saturday when a fire gutted their dormitory at a high school in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, the country’s education minister said. The cause of the fi...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has been eyeing the possibility of charging a carbon tax of $25 per tonne - half of what the federal government has insisted must be in place by 2022 - according to ...

TORONTO - Piers Handling will be stepping down as director and CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival at the end of next year. Handling announced Saturday that 2018 would be his final year lea...