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BURNABY, B.C. - DeMarre Carroll is ready to start over. A prized free-agent acquisition of the Toronto Raptors two summers ago, Carroll suffered through a trying first year with his new team in 2015-1...

HALIFAX - When heaving waters in the North Atlantic wrenched a string of massive steel pipes from a drilling ship off Nova Scotia’s coast, one of the 20-tonne sections of the plummeting coil str...

OTTAWA - Canada’s provincial and territorial leaders want face time with Justin Trudeau to discuss health care funding - and they want a commitment from Ottawa before they’re willing to ta...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is cancelling a plan to have former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge review the province’s balanced-budget law. The move is the latest in a series of Tory r...

TORONTO - BlackBerry addicts are notoriously loyal, but even they will have a hard time sticking by their beloved device now that BlackBerry Ltd. is outsourcing production, say observers who admit to ...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Sept. 28 --- CARR HIGHLIGHTS PIPELINE BENEFITS: Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr is talking up the benefits of the Pacific Northwest LNG project in Brit...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says a record number of immigrants arriving in the last year helped push the country’s population to an estimated 36,286,425 as of July 1. The agency says the country ...

PHILADELPHIA - Michelle Obama told supporters in Philadelphia on Wednesday that candidates don’t change once they become president and that America “needs an adult in the White House.̶...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s ambiguous answer to a debate question on nuclear restraint raised doubts about his understanding of the issue. On the other hand, his words - by design or coincidence...

ATLANTA - THE ISSUE: The right to bear arms is fundamental to the U.S., carved into the Constitution and seemingly embedded in the national DNA. But after a seemingly endless stretch of violence, Amer...