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TORONTO - Via Rail says it is temporarily laying off 1,000 employees due to blockades that continue to halt service on CN tracks in Eastern Canada. The Crown corporation has suspended passenger trains...

Canadian freestyle moguls team member Brayden Kuroda has died. Freestyle Canada made the announcement in a news release on Tuesday, saying Kuroda's death happened "suddenly" on Monday n...

MOOSE JAW, Sask. - Northern Ontario's Krista McCarville threw a perfect game in a 4-3 victory over Alberta's Laura Walker on Wednesday morning at the Scotties Tournament of Hearts....

EDMONTON - A blockade has been set up on a Canadian National Railway line on the western edge of Edmonton in support of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs who oppose a natural gas pipeline in Br...

KANESATAKE, Que. - An Indigenous leader in Quebec is retracting comments about ongoing rail blockades that didn't go over well with members of his own community. Kanesatake Grand Chief Serge Otsi ...

PALM BEACH, Fla. - First lady Melania Trump touted her "Be Best" program and the Trump administration's battle against the opioid crisis as she accept an award Wednesday from a Florida Christian colle...

MONTREAL - The head of a Jewish home-schooling association took umbrage in court Monday with the accusation his ultra-Orthodox community fails to properly educate its boys, claiming Talmudic stud...

OTTAWA - Federal prosecutors are signalling they want to move the national-secrets case against a senior RCMP official behind closed doors - at least temporarily - while a key issue is sorted out...

MONTREAL - The trial of Quebec media star Eric Salvail opened Monday with testimony from a former co-worker who said Salvail cornered him, exposed himself and tried to force h...

MONTREAL - Running back Tyrell Sutton is back with the Montreal Alouettes. The five-foot-nine, 205-pound Sutton re-signed with Montreal on Wednesday. He became a CFL free agent last week. Sutton ...