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At the Canadian track and field championships in Ottawa in early July, star sprinter Andre De Grasse had just finished a race, and fans were frantic for autographs. One particularly opportunistic dad ...

HALIFAX - The SS Letitia was cutting through thick fog, its crew preparing to unload hundreds of wounded Canadian soldiers in Halifax’s busy harbour, when the captain stepped onto the deck and s...

TORONTO - The Toronto Argonauts released veteran players Matt Black and Devon Wylie on Tuesday. Both players were on Toronto’s six-game injured list. Black, a five-foot-nine, 192-pound defensive...

NEW YORK - A lawsuit filed Tuesday lays out an explosive tale of Trump allies, the White House and Fox News Channel conspiring to push a false story about Democratic leaks and an unsolved killing in o...

WASHINGTON - U.S. factories expanded again last month - a good sign for the economy. But pace of growth was down from June. The Institute for Supply Management reports that its manufacturing index sli...

VANCOUVER - Southern British Columbia is bracing for a troubling combination of a heat wave and poor air quality from wildfire smoke, prompting officials to take a number of extraordinary measures to ...

WASHINGTON - U.S. construction spending declined in June for the second time in three months, as spending on government construction projects plunged by the largest amount in 15 years. Construction sp...

CALGARY- Some new rules agreed to by 11 Alberta police chiefs could mean the names of homicide victims will be kept from the public for privacy reasons. A policy adopted in principle at a meeting of t...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - Cambodia’s prime minister on Tuesday ordered the ouster of an American-led Christian organization that seeks to rescue and rehabilitate women working in the sex trade, say...

TORONTO - An experienced appeal court judge will head a sweeping public inquiry into systemic issues at Ontario’s long-term care homes that may have contributed to the murders of eight seniors a...