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MONTREAL - There were appeals for calm Thursday amid steadily mounting tension in Oka, Que., over a private developer's plan to return land to the Mohawks of Kanesatake. Hundreds packed a church ...

WASHINGTON - Actress Sally Field and the long-running children's TV show "Sesame Street" are in the latest class of Kennedy Center Honors recipients. Others chosen to receive the award for lifetime ac...

TORONTO - A rare goal by Ashtone Morgan helped Toronto FC secure the win over the New York Red Bulls on Wednesday night. While scoring is not Morgan's forte, Toronto's longest-serving player stil...

DALLAS - Southwest Airlines is again pushing back the date it expects to be able to fly the grounded Boeing 737 Max jet, meaning more flight cancellations. Southwest said Thursday that it is taking th...

OTTAWA - Internal government documents say that many of the 57,000 seniors the Liberals say they have helped lift out of poverty only moved above the poverty line when the government changed the measu...

MONTREAL - A full-blown strike by employees at Quebec provincial parks that was set to begin today has been averted after the two sides reached an agreement in principle. About 300 workers were a...

EDMONTON - Police have laid charges against a man accused of forging the signature of Edmonton Oilers star Connor McDavid on what are believed to be authentic team jerseys, then selling them to score ...

MONTREAL - The Royal Canadian Air Force says it will spend one final day searching for a missing Quebec businessman and his son before handing the case over to the provincial police. Stephan...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - An Illinois woman who recently got a 1993 postcard in her mailbox has tracked down the man who sent it to his children more than two decades ago. Kim Draper's story about the myste...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - A widely scorned fence blocking one of Canada's most spectacular vistas - the view of St. John's, N.L., from the Signal Hill historic site - was almost entirely dismantled Thursday ...