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VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis authorized spending up to 1 million euros to free a Colombian nun kidnapped by al-Qaida-linked militants in Mali, a cardinal testified Thursday, revealing previously s...

HALIFAX - Two RCMP officers who mistakenly fired at a man standing outside a rural Nova Scotia firehall as they searched for a rampaging gunman say they still believe they reacted properly. Const. Ter...

Canada's two senior lacrosse leagues are asking a professional league based in the United States to loosen restrictions on its player contracts. Ontario's Major Series Lacrosse and British Columbia's ...

ATLANTA (AP) - Officials at Emory University are urgently telling students and staff to shelter in place amid reports of a possible armed suspect. The university said in an email Monday that police ar...

OTTAWA - Transport Minister Omar Alghabra says Canadian airlines are standing by to help bring charter flights of Ukrainian refugees to Canada as soon as some logistical hurdles are overcome. More tha...

Toronto will host the FINA Swimming World Cup for the first time in more than 20 years. The Toronto Pan Am Sports Centre will welcome the world's top swimmer in the second of the three-stop short-cour...

It appears Saskatchewan won't be hosting the 2023 world junior hockey championship.According to TSN's Darren Dreger, the International Ice Hockey Federation is to announce Thursday that the tournament...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - For Emma Stone, acting in "Bleat," a Greek silent movie with surreal and disturbing scenes of sex, death, and resurrection, was a professional challenge and a relief. Playing a y...

Canadians Julia (The Jewel) Budd and Rory (Red King) MacDonald, both former Bellator champions, kick off their Professional Fighters League season Friday, the first step hopefully toward a world title...

Quebec Premier Franois Legault says Gov. Gen. Mary Simon still has some work to do on her French. The premier made the comments in Quebec City today after meeting with Simon on Wednesday during her fi...