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OTTAWA - Feminist advocates say the federal budget doesn't fully account for the challenges in scaling up child-care systems across the country. Morna Ballantyne, executive director of advocacy group ...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Canucks have signed goaltender Spencer Martin to a two-year, one-way contract. The one-way deal suggests Martin is a strong candidate to back up starter Thatcher Demko next s...

MEDICINE HAT, AB - Medicine Hat's annual yard waste collection program starts Monday, and the city's solid waste superintendent hopes they'll be able to avoid the typical contamination issues found ea...

A last-ditch legal effort to temporarily bar supervised drug-use sites in Alberta from requiring clients to show personal identification has met a dead end in Canada's top court. The Supreme Court of ...

TORONTO - Rick Vaive knew his record wouldn't stand forever. The hometown of the Toronto Maple Leafs player to eventually surpass him was the surprise - at least until recently. "If someone had told m...

OTTAWA - The Liberal budget laid out money for a new dental care program Thursday, but not necessarily a plan. Now that $5.3 billion is on the table, the government has just shy of nine months to dril...

CYPRESS COUNTY, AB - The largest shipment of product from the local Prairie Gleaners society is now on its way to Ukraine.Twenty pallets of dehydrated vegetable mix were moved out of storage and onto ...

Buoyed by back-to-back home victories, Toronto FC looks to win on the road Saturday when it visits Real Salt Lake. History is not on TFC's side when it comes to Utah, however. Toronto has not won in t...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is donating another $220 million to the COVAX global vaccine sharing alliance. The funds will bring Canada's total monetary donation to COVAX to abou...

LETHBRIDGE, AB - The Lethbridge-Medicine Hat economic region saw the second-lowest unemployment figure in the province last month. March's rate was 5.5 per cent. That's a drop from 6.6 per cent in Feb...