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OTTAWA - Mark Carney's victory in the Liberal leadership race puts the final nail in the coffin of Ottawa's controversial plan to hike the inclusion rate on capital gains. When they tabled their budge...

MONTREAL - Montreal public health officials say someone contagious with the measles virus who was not vaccinated attended an NHL game at the Bell Centre on March 3 between the Canadiens and the Buffal...

OTTAWA - Ottawa Rapid FC, whose owners include Northern Super League co-founders Diana Matheson and Thomas Gilbert, has fleshed out its ownership group. Investors include Ottawa Senators minority owne...

Jennifer Heil set the bar for Canada at the 2006 Turin Olympics. The decorated skier captured the country's first medal - and its attention - with a gold in moguls on the opening day of competition. N...

LIVIGNO - Canadian freestyle skiing star Mikael Kingsbury won silver at a World Cup moguls event Tuesday. Kingsbury scored 82.90 points on the same course that will be used at next year's Milan-Cortin...

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistani insurgents attacked a passenger train in a tunnel and claimed to take over 100 hostages on Tuesday, as authorities struggled to reach the remote area. The fate of the...

As we enter day 11 of Alberta's wildfire season there are still currently no fires burning in the Grande Prairie Forest Area.However, one wildfire is still burning in the Peace River Forest Area, it i...

The Municipal District of Greenview is updating its road bans Tuesday, March 11.Effective 10:00 a.m. all Greenview Gravel roads except for gravel streets within Greenview hamlets will be at 75 per cen...

Besides snow removal, council talked about several other things at its meeting on Monday.Sports DomeCouncil gave first reading to a borrowing bylaw for the new sports dome. Second and third readings w...

City Council has voted to decrease the snow removal trigger to 10 centimetres. It had been set at 13 centimetres of snowfall before plowing starts.Deputy Mayor Wade Pilat says the 13 centimetre target...