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TORONTO - A frank discussion about the “best case scenario” for Gord Downie after his brain cancer diagnosis and the singer’s struggle to live up to expectations as the Tragically Hi...

LONDON - A new plastic 10-pound note featuring Jane Austen, one of Britain’s most renowned authors, has gone into circulation. Apart from the Queen, whose portrait is on all U.K. currency, Auste...

COPENHAGEN - A Norwegian archaeologist says a well-preserved, if rusty, iron sword dating to the Viking era has been found in southern Norway. Lars Holger Piloe says the nearly one-meter-long (3-foot)...

Seven stories in the news for Thursday, Sept. 14 --- JUSTICE MINISTERS TO DISCUSS FEDERAL POT PLAN Marijuana legalization will be at the top of the agenda when Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould me...

CALGARY - City subsidies for professional sports teams like the Calgary Flames can be justified in the name of civic planning, pride or politics, but suggestions that they result in net growth to the ...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is taking so long to unveil its promised sentencing reforms that a Toronto legal agency has decided it would be irresponsible to delay a charter challenge for a young w...

VANCOUVER - Radioactive contamination following a nuclear power-plant disaster in Japan never reached unsafe levels in the north Pacific Ocean for either marine life or human health, says a British Co...

VANCOUVER - Canada’s justice ministers are asking for clarity and support as they scramble to organize and police an entirely new marijuana industry in fewer than 10 months. British Columbia Sol...

CALGARY - The Calgary Police Service has welcomed one of its four-legged members back to active duty after the dog recovered from numerous stab wounds to his head suffered during a break-and-enter inv...

NEW YORK - It was a different Sean Spicer who paid a visit to ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Wednesday night. This was a smiling, chill Spicer, in marked contrast to the six hot-tempered ...