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TORONTO - Justin Herdman will report to the Toronto Argonauts with a big chip on his shoulder. Toronto selected the six-foot-one, 235-pound Simon Fraser linebacker in the seventh round, 54th overall, ...

LOWER SACKVILLE, N.S. - Police say a 15-year-old boy managed to fool a convenience store clerk with a fake $50 bill that was made of paper and covered in Chinese characters. They say the boy asked the...

EDMONTON - Alberta Health Services says one patient contracted a bacterial infection associated with a machine that is used during open-heart surgery. Last December, the health agency notified about 1...

HALIFAX - (McNeil-Harris-Resigns) Premier Stephen McNeil says his campaign communications director resigned because he felt “under attack.” Last week the Tories raised questions about the ...

OTTAWA - When municipal officials were told last year about new tools to help them map the risk of flooding in their communities, they immediately raised red flags, suggesting they wanted no part of i...

OTTAWA - Sen. Don Meredith, his name now inexorably linked with his sexual relationship with a teenage girl, declared Tuesday he would resign his Senate seat, short-circuiting what could have been a h...

REGINA - Manitoba’s energy minister is recharging the idea of building an east-west power transmission grid and says the federal government needs to help. Cliff Cullen told the Energy Council of...

FORT DIX, N.J. - A young comic book aficionado is sharing his passion with the military. Ten-year-old Carl Scheckel organized a campaign that gathered roughly 3,000 comic books that he donated last mo...

VANCOUVER - Growing up playing youth basketball in Nova Scotia, Matthew van Bommel didn’t think much about the scorekeepers sitting courtside. As long as the point totals were correct, there was...

SEATTLE - For weeks Seattle Mayor Ed Murray pushed ahead with plans for his re-election campaign despite claims by men he sexually abused them decades ago when they were teenagers, allegations Murray ...