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TORONTO - Despite a franchise-best season, Toronto FC didn’t garner much attention in the end-of-season awards. Star striker Sebastian Giovinco, last year’s MVP, Newcomer of the Year and G...

VANCOUVER - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says chants of “Lock her up” at a rally protesting her plans for a carbon tax reflect the views of extreme groups of people who have migrated to b...

OTTAWA - Canada’s privacy watchdog intends to look into the Trudeau government’s new online survey on electoral reform after concerns have been raised about invasion of privacy. Canadians ...

ALBERTA – As part of the Future Ready initiative, the government is taking steps to help students achieve better marks in math and assist teachers in mathematical instruction. Starting in 2018, ...

MANDAN, N.D. - Some protesters who have been fighting the Dakota Access pipeline retreated to a nearby casino and area shelters overnight as a blizzard blew through, but many remained at a camp in sou...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A car crash has damaged one of the nation’s oldest churches. WPRI-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2gA5Zsu) the First Baptist Church in Providence, Rhode Island, sustained damage to ...

JACKSON, Ga. - With the execution Tuesday of a man convicted of killing his father-in-law, Georgia has put to death nine inmates this year - more than any other state. William Sallie’s time of d...

TAMPA, Fla. - Closing out two terms as a president at war, Barack Obama staunchly defended his counterterrorism strategy as one that rejected torture, held to American values and avoided large-scale t...

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia - The head of the charter airline whose plane crashed in the Andes last week was detained by Bolivian prosecutors for questioning Tuesday as authorities look into whether the trage...

OTTAWA - The federal government spent just over $4 million on outside coaching services for non-partisan public servants in the year since the Liberals came to power. That includes money for media tra...