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MESETAS, Colombia - The United Nations says it has concluded the disarmament process for individual arms as part of a peace deal between Colombia’s leftist rebels and the government. At a ceremo...

Vancouver Whitecaps rising star Alphonso Davies headlines a young Canadian squad for the 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup. The Canadian Soccer Association announced its 23-player squad Tuesday for the biennial ...

BARRIE, Ont. - Police say they’ve recovered a puppy stolen from a central Ontario pet shop, but are still looking for four kittens taken during the same break-in. They say video surveillance cau...

The Red Deer Symphony Orchestra (RDSO) is preparing for the conclusion of the pilot phase of their Education and Outreach program, Music + Explorers at G.H. Dawe School. An after-school music enrichme...

NEW YORK - The co-founder and CEO of Pandora, under intensifying pressure from Spotify and Apple Music, has relinquished his position and will step down from the company board as well. Westergren, who...

OTTAWA - Canada’s ambassador to France will be stepping down at the end of September. Lawrence Cannon took to his Twitter account Tuesday to thank former prime minister Stephen Harper for appoin...

Justin Newell was a prankster who loved to play tricks on his family, crack jokes and tell silly stories. But the 13-year-old transgender boy took his own life June 3 in a heartbreaking suicide, one o...

TORONTO - Brain scientists at a Canadian university are aiming to get a better handle on how sleep affects memory, problem solving, and other cognitive functions in what they are billing as the larges...

NEW YORK - The longtime editor of one of the world’s oldest literary publications is stepping down. J.D. McClatchy, a prize-winning poet and librettist, told The Associated Press he is leaving T...

TORONTO - An avid soccer fan, Toronto-based neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Cusimano gets concerned every time he sees a player stay on the pitch after showing symptoms of a head injury. He decided to explor...