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HALIFAX - Canada’s East Coast navy welcomed its new commander Friday. Rear Admiral Craig Baines took over from Rear Admiral John Newton in a ceremony on the Halifax naval dockyards. Baines has b...

MEADOW LAKE, Sask. - A lawyer acting for the prosecution in the case of a deadly northern Saskatchewan shooting has been named a provincial court judge. Lloyd Stang’s call to the bench further d...

TORONTO - The Canadian Women’s Hockey League will pay its players for regular-season games starting this season. A pay structure unveiled Friday was passed by the league’s board of directo...

FREDERICTON - A legislature committee is recommending New Brunswick sell marijuana through government-operated stores to anyone 19 years or older. The report from the select committee on cannabis, rel...

QUEBEC - Forcing francophone students to attend junior college exclusively in French, as some Parti Quebecois members have proposed, is a non-starter for the Liberals, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillar...

ROME - Italy is putting on display a 1st century marble head that an American museum returned after learning it was stolen during World War II from a southern Italian museum. The Cleveland Museum of A...

TORONTO - A hometown boy, Greg Worthington grew up in Queensbury and still lives in the English village. “I think if I left there I’d probably get a nosebleed,” he said. “IR...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is thinking about buying trailers to keep asylum seekers currently living in tents at the U.S. border safe from the cold winter. “These tents do have heaters, but...

NEW YORK - When Joan Osborne first met Bob Dylan, the two singers got very, very close. There wasn’t much of a choice - they had to share the same recording studio microphone. “I’m l...

GENEVA - Paris Saint-Germain has paid a quick price for its record-breaking investments in star forwards Neymar and Kylian Mbappe. UEFA put Paris Saint-Germain’s finances under formal investigat...