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TORONTO - After lasting just 39 seconds in his UFC debut, Calgary featherweight (Mean) Hakeem Dawodu bounced back with a unanimous decision in July in his home town. “More to come,” says D...

CALGARY - Alex Gough is still in demand on Canada’s luge team after her ceremonial retirement run Saturday. Her heir apparent Kim McRae is leaning on Gough to help her balance an intense schedul...

TOMASZOW MAZOWIECKI, Poland - Canada captured bronze in women’s team pursuit on Friday at the third World Cup speedskating event of the season. Ottawa’s Ivanie Blondin and Isabelle Weidema...

CAPE CORAL, Fla. - It wasn’t the Grinch who stole Christmas. It was a man who screamed “there’s no Santa Claus” over and over during a recent holiday festival in Florida. A sou...

NEW YORK - Before her dramatic arrest in Canada, few in the U.S. had heard of Meng Wanzhou. Meng, 46, is chief financial officer and deputy chairwoman of the board of Chinese telecom company Huawei. S...

ESTEVAN, Sask. - Brad Gushue snapped Kevin Koe’s four-game win streak and earned a spot in the semifinal at the Canada Cup on Friday. Gushue’s rink (4-2) from St. John’s, N.L. topped...

CALGARY - If luge teams had captains, Tristan Walker and Justin Snith inherited the “C” for Canada. The retirements of Alex Gough and Sam Edney made the doubles duo of Walker and Snith the...

OTTAWA - As details of American allegations against a Chinese executive were revealed Friday in a Vancouver court, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Canada’s ambassador in Beijing ...

REGINA - A one-time player with the CFL Saskatchewan Roughriders has been sentenced to one year in jail for assaulting his former girlfriend. Former defensive back Justin Cox pleaded guilty in Septemb...

VIENNA - Oil prices spiked sharply higher Friday as major oil producers, including the OPEC cartel, agreed to cut global oil production by 1.2 million barrels a day to reduce oversupply. Following two...