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A hearing for a judicial review of the sanctions placed by Medicine Hat's council on Mayor Linnsie Clark was described by a political expert as a "schoolyard dispute" and a former politician as an air...

NEW YORK (AP) - Columbia University President Minouche Shafik resigned Wednesday after a brief, tumultuous tenure that saw the head of the prestigious New York university grapple with protests over th...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - Hideki Matsuyama is starting the PGA Tour's lucrative post-season without his caddie and coach after they were victims of a robbery during a stopover in London from the Paris Oly...

VANCOUVER - The time was right for Nathan Rourke to return to the Canadian Football League. After spending more than 18 months bouncing around with four NFL teams, the 26-year-old from Victoria decide...

WILLIAMSPORT - The Kuei-Shan Little League team from Taiwan finished fourth in last year's Little League World Series. Back in Williamsport for the second straight year, the team has more depth and sk...

VANCOUVER - The B.C. Supreme Court has certified a class-action lawsuit against global agriculture firm Syngenta over claims that its herbicide products cause Parkinson's disease. A decision released ...

OTTAWA - Peter Baxter, the longtime athletic director at Wilfrid Laurier, has been appointed to Football Canada's board of directors. The governing body of amateur football in Canada made the announce...

OTTAWA - Former Conservative MP and cabinet minister Chuck Strahl has died at the age of 67. Strahl was first elected in 1993 and represented the B.C. riding of Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon until his reti...

MONTREAL - CF Montral has acquired up to US$150,000 in general allocation money from the Chicago Fire in return for midfielder Ariel Lassiter, the Major League Soccer club announced Wednesday. Montral...

TORONTO - Gilles Leger, who spent 11 seasons as an executive with the NHL's Quebec Nordiques, has died at age 83. The NHL confirmed Leger's death in a statement Wednesday. A cause of death was not giv...