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IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut is extending its "circuit-breaker'' lockdown as a rise in COVID-19 infections pushes the territory's health-care system to a breaking point. The territory's chief public hea...

Brad Marchand is not happy. Neither is Vladimir Tarasenko. And they are not alone. A handful of NHL players are voicing their frustration over the league's decision barring them from participating in ...

Damian Warner won gold in one of track and field's most gruelling events, masterfully laying down one terrific performance after another over 10 events and two days, in the smothering Tokyo heat. But ...

Lionel Conacher did it all. Known as The Big Train, Conacher was an overwhelming winner of CP's outstanding athlete of the half-century in 1950. He was also named Canada's top football player of the h...

EDMONTON - Connor Bedard's four goals propelled Canada to an 11-2 win over Austria at the world junior men's hockey championship on Tuesday. Mason McTavish scored twice and Cole Perfetti had a goal an...

BORMIO, Italy (AP) - Aleksander Aamodt Kilde mastered a tricky course to win a World Cup super-G by a large margin Wednesday for his third straight victory in the discipline. The Norwegian skier finis...

OTTAWA - In a renovated shed in his garden, author Yann Martel drafts and redrafts his best sellers. The novelist writes in English, although his first language is French, and his work - including "Li...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Dec. 29... What we are watching in Canada ... ...

HALIFAX - Almost five years after Afghanistan war veteran Lionel Desmond killed three family members and himself, an inquiry is expected to draw to a close next month in Nova Scotia with questions sti...

EDMONTON - It was a speech that symbolized Alberta's pandemic politics in 2021: Premier Jason Kenney's boastful, bullhorn-loud, first-out-of-the-gate victory whoop over COVID-19 preceding a crushing h...