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Five stories in the news for Friday, Aug. 30 --- ONTARIO ANTI-CARBON TAX GAS STICKERS COME INTO EFFECT TODAY   A new law requiring Ontario gas stations to start posting anti-c...

MONTREAL - A Canadian man sentenced to 10 years in a Cuban prison says he is innocent, and his lawyer says his client was likely set up following a night of partying...

OTTAWA - Canada's cities want all the federal parties to promise to pour billions more into the national government's decade-long housing strategy to make sure that seniors, urban Indigenous people an...

CALGARY - The Crown says it has proven its case against a teen charged with shooting a German tourist near Calgary last summer, but the defence says none of the prosecution's witnesses have ...

TORONTO - One shaky inning was all the Blue Jays needed to get past Canadian Cy Young candidate Mike Soroka. And while they made it look fairly easy - tagging Soroka with three straight...

NEW YORK - Add Kirsten Flipkens to the growing chorus of people who think Canadian Bianca Andreescu can win the 2019 U.S. Open. The 33-year-old Belgian said it before their second-round match Thursday...

Toronto FC captain Michael Bradley isn't happy about having to choose between club and country. And he tore a strip off Major League Soccer on Thursday, saying the league needs to respect FIFA's inter...

NEW YORK - Here's how new all of this is to Coco Gauff: She didn't quite realize she only has to play every other day at the U.S. Open. "I'm still used to playing juniors," the American said with a ch...

NEW YORK - Expectations were sky-high for a tough, competitive first-round U.S. Open rematch between rising Canadian stars Felix Auger-Aliassime and Denis Shapovalov. The outcome was anything but that...

NANAIMO - While progress saving lives is encouraging, the deadly strength of powerful drugs remains a big problem in Nanaimo. International Overdose Awareness Day was recognized by various community g...