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OTTAWA - A new federal survey suggests the percentage of students who smoke tobacco fell to about three per cent in 2014-15 from four per cent a year earlier. The Canadian Student Tobacco, Alcohol and...

OTTAWA - The Defence Department’s procurement chief says he is having a hard time finding experienced personnel as he hires hundreds of new employees to help untangle the snarled military purcha...

EDMONTON – The Provincial Agriculture Minister has announced a $100 Million loan guarantee for cattle and sheep producers buying and feeding livestock for market. Oneil Carlier, Minister of Agri...

TORONTO - Marco Estrada’s words were confident and optimistic, but the soft tone of the Toronto right-hander’s voice and glum look on his face told a different story as he tried to explain...

LOS ANGELES - The protesters who ambushed Ryan Lochte on “Dancing with the Stars” are defending their actions after being released from jail. Sam Satoodeh and Barzeen Soroudi were arrested...

TORONTO - Ben Cherington was hired as the Toronto Blue Jays new vice-president of baseball operations on Wednesday. Cherington spent most of his career with the Boston Red Sox organization. He and Jed...

HALIFAX - A new Nova Scotia Appeal Court ruling raises fresh questions about the police use of so-called “Mr. Big” tactics, dismissing a Crown appeal in the case of a woman acquitted of be...

VICTORIA - Criminal charges have been laid against a man six months after a Vancouver Island Mountie was killed when her police cruiser was hit broadside by a pickup truck. British Columbia’s Cr...

WASHINGTON - Melania Trump released a letter Wednesday from an immigration attorney that provided more detail on what she said was her legal pathway to U.S. citizenship. But the Slovenian-born wife of...

TORONTO - The mother of a Canadian soldier who killed himself after serving in Afghanistan will finally be honoured with a Memorial Cross this weekend, ending a long battle to have the military recogn...