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Over 570 days since they last took to the ice for a regular-season game in their home barn, the Battlefords North Stars will open the 2021-22 season Friday, in front of the hometown crowd in North Bat...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick has reimposed a state of emergency as the province's hospitals struggle to keep pace with a surge in COVID-19 infections. The province has recorded 866 new cases so far thi...

OTTAWA - The final federal election result may be delayed until the weekend - or even longer - because thousands of mail-in ballots have still to be counted. Twelve ridings did not start counting mail...

OTTAWA - The former Liberal MP for Spadina-Fort York is urging his newly elected successor, Kevin Vuong, to resign. Vuong was dropped as the Liberal candidate in the downtown Toronto riding just two d...

EDMONTON - The head of emergency medicine for the Alberta Medical Association says major components of triage have already begun in Alberta. Dr. Paul Parks said that in recent days some critically ill...

OTTAWA - Canada's top doctor says safety data won't be the only factor public health officials and parents will have to consider when deciding whether or not to vaccinate young kids against COVID-19. ...

LONDON (AP) - Oleksandr Usyk is giving up 19 pounds (9 kilograms) on world heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua for their fight on Saturday. Usyk, the challenger from Ukraine, tipped the scales at 221 ...

Multiple RCMP units are investigating an incident where police were fired upon.Battlefords RCMP responded to a call shortly after 10 p.m. on Tuesday, alleging that two individuals were travelling on t...

The Saskatchewan Health Authority is in the middle of putting the brakes on most surgeries and services in the province to try to make enough room for COVID-19 patients today and in the near future.An...

Phil Berna took close to a month off after the Tokyo Olympics and then the competitive juices started flowing again. "I called myself back into training," said the 25-year-old from Vancouver. "The tim...