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Calgary is making a pitch to be the host city of the world freestyle ski and snowboard championships next month if public health authorities approve it. Calgary would be a substitute site. The world c...

OTTAWA - Canadian snowbirds in Florida are rushing to get inoculated down south as provincial vaccine rollouts lag north of the border. While many of the roughly one million Canadians who flock to sun...

MONTREAL - Civil rights advocates say they're concerned Quebec's new provincewide curfew is not justified by science and will be enforced in a way that has a disproportionate impact on racialized peop...

CLEVELAND - The Cleveland Indians traded four-time All-Star shortstop Francisco Lindor and pitcher Carlos Carrasco to the New York Mets on Thursday. Cleveland obtained infielders Andres Gimenez and Am...

P.A. Insurance Limited, owned by Ron Wesolowski for over 40 years, has been sold to HUB International Limited. The deal was announced last month.While Wesolowski will no longer be manager of the busin...

OTTAWA - The federal government is pushing back against ongoing American tariffs on Canadian solar products. In a statement today, International Trade Minister Mary Ng calls the tariffs "unwarranted" ...

Due to a technicality, a man charged in connection to a violent home invasion in Prince Albert, in which the victim was tied up and threatened with a shotgun, was found not guilty. The trial for Antho...

WINNIPEG - The Winnipeg Blue Bombers have signed Canadian special-teams standout Mike Miller to a one-year extension. The native of Riverview, N.B., returns to the Blue Bombers for a fourth season. Mi...

KAMPALA, Uganda - Police in Uganda confronted popular opposition presidential candidate Bobi Wine during an online press conference Thursday to announce a petition to the International Criminal Court,...

TORONTO - A consensus appears to have developed that educating reluctant health-care workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19 is better than trying to force them to get the shots. While most of thos...