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EDMONTON - The mother of a five-month-old baby boy who died in an Edmonton house fire says she is touched by the support she is receiving from everyone. Angie Tang says in a brief statement that she i...

BOSTON - An artist who created a cartoon frog that was appropriated by white racists has forced a Texas man to quit distributing a children’s book based on the character. Attorneys for artist Ma...

Art Briles won’t be resuming his coaching career with the Hamilton Tiger-Cats. The CFL and Ticats issued a joint statement Monday night saying Briles wouldn’t be heading north. The Ticats ...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Aug. 28 --- PRIME MINISTER TO DISSOLVE INDIGENOUS AFFAIRS FILE: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Indigenous Affairs file is being restructured and will ...

OTTAWA - A pair of relative political rookies - Seamus O’Regan and Carla Qualtrough - have been tapped to guide two of the federal Liberal government’s most complex and politically sensiti...

Parker Thompson is looking to finish another racing season in style after one of the best weekends of his career. Thompson raced three times over the weekend at Calabogie Motorsports Park in Ontario, ...

A man and woman suffered serious injuries in an aggravated assault incident at Maskwacis. Mounties responded just before 10 p.m. Friday to a residence on the Montana First Nation where an assault had ...

NEW YORK - The ubiquitous hit song “Despacito” has tied Mariah Carey’s 16-week record at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Billboard announced Monday that Luis Fonsi’s song...

BELLINGHAM, Wash. - A native American band says its anglers have caught about 20,000 fish following the collapse of a commercial net pen rearing farmed Atlantic salmon in Puget Sound. The Lummi Nation...

OTTAWA - A United Nations panel says the construction of British Columbia’s $8.8-billion Site C dam should be halted until there is a full review of how it would affect Indigenous land. The reco...