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A man who assaulted a hotel security officer with a machete was told by a judge he was very lucky to receive only a 30-day jail sentence for the attack.Preston Ratt, 23, entered guilty pleas to assaul...

TORONTO - The Toronto Maple Leafs will be without Wayne Simmonds until mid-March. The team has announced the bruising winger is set to miss six weeks after suffering a broken wrist in Saturday's 5-1 v...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Acadian Society is paying tribute to Jackie Vautour as a symbol of the francophone minority's resistance to unjust expropriation of their lands. The 92-year-old Vautour d...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. - U.S. Sen. Richard C. Shelby of Alabama, the Senate's fourth most senior member and who chaired four major committees, announced Monday that he will not seek a seventh term in office...

MONTREAL - Residents of Montreal's northeastern St-Leonard neighbourhood expressed sadness and shock on Monday at news a 15-year-old girl had been shot to death in the area the night before. Half a do...

TORONTO - An Edmonton man convicted of killing his pregnant wife and dumping her body more than 15 years ago was granted day parole for six months on Tuesday, with officials stressing the need to moni...

OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada has listed its criteria for hotels seeking to participate in the mandatory three-day quarantine for returning travellers. The conditions posted online put t...

CALGARY - The Alberta Court of Appeal has ruled that a trial judge erred by not applying consecutive parole eligibilities for two men convicted in the slayings of three family members.As a result, Jas...

CALGARY - Alberta's top court has upheld a life sentence with no chance of parole for 75 years for a man who killed a Calgary couple and their young grandson.A jury found Douglas Garland guilty of thr...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government says powerful public protest persuaded it to reinstate a policy that has kept open-pit coal mines out of the Rocky Mountains for almost 45 years. "Albertans have spok...