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CALGARY - The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police won't be supporting a call for a ban on handguns despite concerns about gun violence in a number of major cities including Toronto. Vancouve...

NEW YORK - Paule Marshall, an exuberant and sharpened storyteller who in fiction such as "Daughters" and "Brown Girl, Brownstones" drew upon classic and vernacular literature and her mother's kitchen ...

VANCOUVER - Bill Konyk, a legendary Vancouver businessman who fought a human rights battle to maintain his nickname Hunky Bill, has died. He was 88. His youngest son, Mark Konyk, says his da...

STE-MARTHE-SUR-LE-LAC, Que. - Four months after a dike ruptured and forced 6,000 people from the town of Ste-Marthe-sur-le-Lac, demolition work has begun on flood-stricken homes in the community west ...

TORONTO - Captain Michael Bradley can appreciate why it may look like desperate times for his Toronto FC squad. Toronto faces the Crew on Saturday in Columbus, where the Reds will be trying for a vita...

TORONTO - Bo Bichette knows where he stands in his chase for history. The Blue Jays 21-year-old rookie shortstop claims he's not thinking too much about his career-opening on-base streak that reached ...

EDMONTON - Carbon-tax-fighting governments in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba say they have no plans to follow Ontario's lead and force gas stations to put anti-carbon tax stickers o...

OTTAWA - Canadian archeologists are on their way to a remote island near the Arctic Circle for another chance to dig up the secrets held by the Franklin expedition wrecks. Parks Canada and I...

OTTAWA - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has asked Canada's military ombudsman to investigate racism in the Canadian Forces following several high-profile incidents and a report linking service members...

OTTAWA - The former Liberal cabinet minister tasked with looking into whether the roles of justice minister and attorney general should be separated is recommending no structural changes should b...