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LAUSANNE, Switzerland - While the Winter Olympics still has issues attracting bidders, two candidates have stayed on Monday's ballot to pick the 2026 host. The contest is formally a choice between Mil...

FREDERICTON - The latest dead North Atlantic right whale spotted in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is believed to be a large female. Fisheries and Oceans Canada says the whale was spotted northeast of the I...

TORONTO - The Toronto Raptors selected centre Dewan Hernandez from the University of Miami with the 59th pick in Thursday's NBA draft. The 6-foot-11 Hernandez sat out this season because of his dealin...

VANCOUVER - Kyle Dubas says if Mitch Marner - or the Maple Leafs' other restricted free agents, for that matter - signs an offer sheet with another team, Toronto might let the player wa...

WASHINGTON - U.S. home sales jumped 2.5% in May, as lower mortgage rates appeared to help buyers overcome affordability challenges. The National Association of Realtors said Friday that existing homes...

MONTREAL - A Montreal street named after the British general Jeffery Amherst is being renamed Atateken Street in honour of the local Indigenous population. Mayor Valerie Plante, Ghislain Pic...

LOS ANGELES - Marijuana shoppers are going to be getting a message from California regulators: Go legal. Aiming to slow illegal pot sales that are undercutting the nation's largest licensed market, Ca...

ANKARA, Turkey - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed that former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi didn't die of natural causes, but that he was killed. During a speech in Istanbul, Erd...

PARIS - Safe to say, members of the Canadian women's soccer team have the music in them. From grooving to Shania Twain's "Man! I Feel Like A Woman" on the team bus to flossing during an...

NIEUWEGEIN, Netherlands - International prosecutors announced murder charges Wednesday against four men - three of them Russians with military or intelligence backgrounds - in the missile attack that ...