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EDMONTON - Pressure is always high for Canada at the world junior hockey championships. But this year's team faces a whole host of unusual circumstances. Not only will the squad be playing summer hock...

TORONTO - Quarterback Nathan Rourke and receiver Dominque Rhymes, both of the B.C. Lions, and defensive back Titus Wall of the Calgary Stampeders were named the top performers for Week 9 of the CFL se...

OTTAWA - Canada's top military commander says he plans to "tweak" the Armed Forces' vaccine requirement in the next few weeks. But defence chief Gen. Wayne Eyre is also defending the use of mandates, ...

NANAIMO - She's performed in front of big crowds and wow'd judges on American Idol, but Monday was arguably the biggest performance of Lauren Spencer-Smith's career.The 18-year-old singer, originally ...

CALGARY - Toronto lawyer Andrea Skinner has been appointed interim chair of Hockey Canada's board of directors. Skinner is the first woman to hold the position in the organization's history. She takes...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Powerful explosions rocked a Russian air base in Crimea on Tuesday, and at least five people, including a child, were wounded, authorities said. Russia's Defense Ministry said tha...

NEW YORK (AP) - Serena Williams says she is ready to step away from tennis after winning 23 Grand Slam titles, turning her focus to having another child and her business interests. "I'm turning 41 thi...

NEW YORK (AP) - Serena Williams says she is ready to step away from tennis after winning 23 Grand Slam titles, turning her focus to having another child and her business interests. "I'm turning 41 thi...

TORONTO - Serena Williams says she will retire from tennis following the U-S Open, which begins later this month. Williams, who is in Toronto taking part in the National Bank Open, made the announceme...

NANAIMO - Young children won't have long to wait for a substantially improved experience at one of Nanaimo's go-to playgrounds.Aging equipment and a somewhat unforgiving gravel surface was recently re...