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HAMILTON - The biggest challenge June Jones faces as the Hamilton Tiger-Cats’ new head coach is repairing the club’s battered psyche. Jones took over as coach Wednesday when Kent Austin re...

TORONTO - Canadian and American auto worker unions say they’ll continue to fight for higher wages in Mexico with or without a NAFTA deal, even as U.S. President Donald Trump threatened again to ...

REGINA - The first indication of what impact Saskatchewan’s spring austerity budget has had shows things are on track despite a slight jump in spending. After the first three months of the fisca...

SURREY, B.C. - A major health authority in British Columbia’s Lower Mainland issued a warning Friday about illicit drugs after an increase in suspected overdose deaths in the past week. Fraser H...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s decision to end the long service award for public-sector workers - retirement bonuses that cost the government tens of millions of dollars a year - is proving particularl...

PITCAIRN, Pa. - Police say a Pittsburgh-area woman left her five children alone so she could drive her fugitive boyfriend across the state to avoid arrest. Thirty-four-year-old Tiffany Jackson, of Pit...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The CEO of South Carolina’s state-owned utility is retiring and is the first executive to leave following last month’s failure of a nuclear power project that customers ha...

JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. - Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Friday emphatically defended the web of regulations the Fed helped enact after the 2008 financial crisis, saying it helped restore the bankin...

OTTAWA - Three months into the fiscal year, the public books are on track to meet the Trudeau government’s deficit projection of $28.5 billion, an update on federal finances said Friday. The gov...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Arkansas’ governor said Friday he will spare the life of a death row inmate whom the state planned to put to death earlier this year, but he also set a November execution dat...