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OTTAWA - Canadian sports minister Pascale St-Onge says excellence needs to be redefined in the national sport policy. The emphasis on medals and podiums needs to change, the minister told a standing c...

WHITEHORSE - For Peter Johnston, Grand Chief of the Council of Yukon First Nations, the history of the territory's modern self-government agreements runs in his blood. On Feb. 14, 1973, his father - S...

NEW YORK (AP) - A man drove a U-Haul truck onto a sidewalk, striking and injuring several pedestrians in New York City on Monday before police captured him following a chase. The truck sped through th...

WASHINGTON - An "anomaly" that military officials were tracking through the weekend before fighter jets downed an unknown object over the Great Lakes was first detected in Canadian airspace. Norad com...

The Saskatchewan Roughriders announced the signing of an American quarterback Monday - but not the quarterback people are waiting for.The CFL team announced it had signed Shea Patterson, who had stint...

MONTREAL - Billy Two Rivers, a retired Mohawk wrestler, politician and activist, has died at 87. The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake announced his death in a statement published today. Two Rivers rose to ...

HALIFAX - The oldest brother of a Canadian woman missing since an earthquake struck Turkey is trying to rent equipment and join his two siblings in a desperate search for their sister. The Feb. 6 eart...

OTTAWA - Russia's ambassador in Ottawa says Canada is a "very dangerous country" for Russians to visit. Oleg Stepanov says Canada keeps sanctioning people and claimed that Russians are regularly exper...

MONTREAL - Billy Two Rivers, a retired Mohawk wrestler, politician and activist, has died at 87. The Mohawk Council of Kahnawake announced his death in a statement published today. Two Rivers rose to ...

QUEBEC - Former Quebec cabinet minister Nadine Girault has died at the age of 63. Premier Franois Legault confirmed her death on social media, paying tribute to a "passionate, determined and endearing...