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MONTREAL - The long-planned extension of a Montreal subway line will open in 2029 and cost some $6.4 billion, government officials said Friday. It is the fifth time in the last 33 years that politicia...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Those accessing the areas near Lethbridge's Wastewater Treatment Plant might be able to unplug their noses soon.The city says the annual spring sludge haul is underway at the facility...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syrian President Bashar Assad was in the United Arab Emirates on Friday, his office said, marking his first visit to an Arab country since Syria's civil war erupted in 2011. In ...

OTTAWA - An Alberta First Nation fighting what it calls overdevelopment of its traditional territory has been given a second chance to convince the courts that governments should advance money for its...

BOSTON (AP) - The head of a private equity firm and former Staples Inc. executive convicted of bribery and fraud charges for trying to pay more than $1.2 million to buy his three children's way into e...

God of Love remains on the Kentucky Derby Trail but trainer Mark Casse says the $1-million Queen's Plate is still very much on the three-year-old's radar. The Ontario-bred horse is slated to run in th...

MADRID (AP) - Spain on Friday declared "a new stage" in its strained relations with Morocco after the Spanish prime minister wrote to the Moroccan king, agreeing that having Western Sahara operate aut...

RED DEER, AB - A Red Deer drug house has been shut down.After an investigation into a residential property, the Alberta Sheriffs have put a stop to drug activity they say was "terrorizing" a neighbour...

LVIS, Que. - Quebec's labour minister says an investigation is underway into allegations that a private seniors residence in Lvis, Que., paid workers from Africa just $70 a week to work as orderlies f...

As a longtime second for Team Brad Jacobs, E.J. Harnden was a big part of one of the best rivalries in Canadian curling. The so-called "Battle of the Brads" between Jacobs and Team Brad Gushue resulte...