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OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says provincial and municipal police forces will receive $15 million to combat the exploitation of children online. The Liberal government committed about...

TORONTO - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and her British counterpart presented a united front Tuesday when it came to voicing concerns about two Canadians detained in China. Freeland ...

One man protected his wife and granddaughter before he was fatally shot; another was killed during an outing with his beloved son. Stories of bravery and loss are emerging from the shootings that took...

EL PASO, Texas - El Paso officials opened a grief centre on Tuesday to help people cope with last weekend's mass shooting at a Walmart, in which 22 people, nearly all with Latino last names, were kill...

DAYTON, Ohio - Facing pressure to take action after the latest mass shooting in the U.S., Ohio's Republican governor urged the GOP-led Legislature on Tuesday to pass laws requiring background checks f...

Horse owners in Alberta are being urged to have enough high-quality hay stockpiled by summer's end to get their animals through next winter.The Alberta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals...

NEW YORK - Cyntoia Brown, whose imprisonment for murder when she was 16 inspired a public campaign for her freedom, has a book out this fall. Brown's "Free Cyntoia" will be published Oct. 15, Atria Bo...

Toronto Argonauts quarterback McLeod Bethel-Thompson, Ottawa Redblacks returner DeVonte Dedmon and Saskatchewan Roughriders QB Cody Fajardo are the CFL's top performers of the week for Week 8. Bethel-...

TORONTO - Seven-time Grand Slam champion Venus Williams has made an early exit at the Rogers Cup. The 39-year-old American lost 6-4, 6-2 to Spain's Carla Suarez Navarro in the first match on cent...

VIENNA - Canada's beach volleyball champions Melissa Humana-Paredes and Sarah Pavan have clinched gold and won US$40,000 at the A1 Major Vienna in Austria. Volleyball Canada says the 2019 world c...