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Tragically Hip fans cross their fingers for their favourites at Saturday's big show
TORONTO - You can’t always get what you want - but fans of the Tragically Hip looking forward to Saturday’s big show in Kingston, Ont., certainly have a list of what they’d like to h...
Aug 16, 2016

Barber crashes out of pole vault event as Canada's medal streak ends at nine days
RIO DE JANEIRO - As the pole vault bar fell 5.65 metres to the ground, Shawn Barber’s Olympic dreams came crashing down with it. It was a bitter but fitting end to Day 10 of the Rio Olympics for...
Aug 16, 2016
Federal government apologizes for forced relocation of Sayisi Dene in Manitoba
TADOULE LAKE, Man. - The federal government has formally apologized and provided compensation for the forced relocation of a First Nations community in northern Manitoba 60 years ago. Indigenous and N...
Aug 16, 2016

Canada must work to become leader in understanding radicalization: Goodale
MONTREAL - Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says Canada must strive to become a global leader in understanding and countering radicalization. He says the death last week of a man in Strathroy, Ont...
Aug 16, 2016
N.S. senator wins $70k from 'malicious' neighbours who tried to seize his land
HALIFAX - A Conservative senator has won more than $70,000 in legal costs from his rural Nova Scotia neighbours after they attempted to seize part of his oceanfront property. Senator Tom McInnis, a 71...
Aug 16, 2016

Comedian turns tables on prime minister with bare-chested photobomb
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The prime minister’s visit to Atlantic Canada has already included one shirtless selfie - but this time, Justin Trudeau is the photobombee rather than photobomber. Comed...
Aug 16, 2016
Canada's military plan for Africa will be for a "long duration," says Sajjan
OTTAWA - The federal government will soon announce a plan to bolster United Nations peace efforts in Africa, including trans-border operations, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said Monday, as he wrappe...
Aug 16, 2016
Ontario Energy Board updates consultation requirements for oil pipelines
TORONTO - The Ontario Energy Board is issuing new guidelines to better define obligations to consult First Nations communities about “hydrocarbon pipelines,” just days after the National E...
Aug 16, 2016

Study needed in New Brunswick to decide how to respond to massive moth outbreak
FREDERICTON - Photos of budworm moths coating trees and roadways in northern New Brunswick may be creepy, but a senior federal scientist says further study is needed to see if the sudden migration war...
Aug 16, 2016
Wandering moose inspires 400-mile cross-border trail
NEWCOMB, N.Y. - The 400-mile trek of a radio-collared moose named Alice is the inspiration for a proposed hiking trail from Ontario’s forested Algonquin Park to the heart of New York’s Adi...
Aug 16, 2016