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WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Thursday named a former aide to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as interim leader of the commission that oversees the U.S. power grid. Trump elevated Neil...

WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - A mix of dry conditions and forecast lightning has officials in British Columbia considering closing access to a vast section of its backcountry to mitigate the wildfire risk. Re...

TORONTO - P.K. Subban is widely regarded as one of the most entertaining players in the NHL, and he has the Twitter followers to prove it. The Nashville Predators defenceman passed one million Twitter...

OTTAWA - The competition to become one of up to five government-designated technology “superclusters” and draw from a federal funding purse of $950 million has attracted more than 50 propo...

INNISFIL, Ont. - A 42-year-old woman is facing charges after the body of an infant boy was found in Innisfil, Ont. Police say they made the discovery after a doctor’s office received a call Wedn...

Brad Wall, who has served as premier of Saskatchewan for nearly a decade, has announced his retirement from politics. The leader of the province’s right-leaning Saskatchewan Party, Wall was nota...

LONDON - Crystal Emmanuel looked fierce, like a fired-up boxer about to climb into the ring. Then she raced into the women’s 200-metre final at the world track and field championships, a place n...

VANCOUVER - The RCMP have settled a lawsuit and apologized for making what they describe as improper comments about a West Vancouver woman accused and later acquitted of human smuggling. Police spokes...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - It appears Canadians were among the first diners in the world to eat a genetically modified animal - and they likely didn’t know it. U.S.-based AquaBounty Technologies s...

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. - President Donald Trump says that perhaps his ‘fire and fury’ warning to North Korea “wasn’t tough enough.” Trump is issuing a new warning over the Nor...