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Unlike most mascots, the plush moose dressed as a Mountie comes with a important back story for the Canadian men at the Rugby World Cup in Japan. The moose, part of the Canada team since 2007, is...

TORONTO - Four athletes, two teams, a coach and a pair of builders will be inducted into the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame this year. The class of 2019 includes two-time Olympic medal-winning diver Al...

MABOU, N.S. - The federal Fisheries Department says it won't order a necropsy into the death of a young blue whale off Cape Breton. The body of the endangered mammal was spotted la...

U.S. new home sales jumped 7.1% in August, as low mortgage rates pull buyers into the housing market. The Commerce Department says that new homes sales increased to a seasonally adjusted annual rate o...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump repeatedly prodded Ukraine's new leader to work with Rudy Giuliani and the U.S. attorney general to investigate Democratic political rival Joe Biden, according to a...

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - A multinational crew made up of an American, a Russian and the first space traveller from the United Arab Emirates has blasted off successfully for a mission on the Internationa...

HAMILTON - A re-elected Liberal government would introduce a national pharmacare program, Justin Trudeau promised Monday - though he wouldn't say how much it would cost or when it would take...

CALGARY - The Calgary Flames have signed forward Matthew Tkachuk to a three-year, US$21-million deal. The move gets Tkachuk, who was a restricted free agent, to camp eight days before the Flames'...

WASHINGTON - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has launched a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump, yielding to mounting pressure from fellow Democrats and plunging a deeply divided nati...

NEW YORK - Al Franken, who resigned his U.S. Senate seat in 2017 amid sexual misconduct charges, will re-emerge into the public sphere on Saturday when he starts a new weekly radio show on the SiriusX...