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OTTAWA - U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will visit Ottawa and Montreal this week, nearly a month after hosting his Canadian counterpart. Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly will welcome Blink...

TORONTO - Piper Gilles and Paul Poirier were emotionally spent at the end of a Beijing Olympic season spent trying to dodge COVID-19. "The stress of the Games really ate into our enjoyment, especially...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Thousands of protesters poured into the streets of a northwestern Iranian city on Wednesday to mark the watershed 40 days since the death in custody of 22-year-old M...

The Bank of Canada hiked its key interest rate by half of a percentage point Wednesday and said rates will need to rise further to clamp down on decades-high inflation.Since March, the central bank ha...

MONTREAL - The Montreal Canadiens acquired defenceman Nicolas Beaudin from the Chicago Blackhawks in a trade for centre Cam Hillis on Wednesday. Beaudin had two goals and four assists in 22 NHL games ...

Auston Matthews drove by the Arizona Coyotes' new home this summer. The 5,000-seat rink tucked into a college campus is a temporary solution - for at least the next three seasons - as the franchise co...

Maidstone RCMP report Highway 16 is closed between Maidstone and Lashburn due to serious motor vehicle accidents and reduced visibility due to smoke in the area.In the media release sent out just befo...

MONTREAL - The RCMP say a Quebec woman returning from Syria will face terrorism charges. Oumaima Chouay faces four charges, including leaving Canada to participate in the activity of a terrorist group...

FREDERICTON - The latest release of data from Statistics Canada's 2021 census shows the proportion of recent immigrants settling in Atlantic Canada has almost tripled in 15 years. The share of immigra...

MOSCOW (AP) - The Kremlin on Wednesday kept the door open for talks on a possible swap involving jailed U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner but reiterated that any such discussions must be kept stric...