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FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial for a young woman convicted in the brutal slaying of a Moncton teen who was stabbed about 200 times, concluding that a judge's err...

CHICAGO - The Chicago Cubs thought they needed a new voice in the dugout. They are banking on good ol' "Grandpa Rossy" to give them a spark. The Cubs hired David Ross to replace Joe Maddon as their ma...

OTTAWA - Newly re-elected Liberal MP Catherine McKenna says she has notified police after someone spray-painted a vulgar slur on the front of her Ottawa Centre campaign office. Staff arriving at the o...

NEW YORK - With a salary of US$3.8 million in 2019, Spanish playmaker Alejandro Pozuelo is looking like a bargain for Toronto FC. But Toronto-born fullback Richie Laryea, at the MLS-minimum $56,2...

Bianca Andreescu has grown accustomed to competing against players she grew up idolizing after facing - and beating - so many of them during her breakout season on the WT...

LONDON - The Latest on the deaths of 39 people in a truck in England (all times local): 3:15 p.m. UK police in Essex say all of the 39 victims found dead in a truck container in southeastern England a...

BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - A former police chief in Nova Scotia who was described in court as a "father figure" to a 17-year-old girl with mental health issues was convicted Thursday of sexually exploiting t...

EDMONTON - Alberta is blazing a new trail for its red-ink economy with a budget that preserves health and education funding but takes a big stick to cities, civil servants and universities. ...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government expects to get $500 million a year out of the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline and is promising to spend it all on cleaner sources of energy and projects that...

OTTAWA - Brian Murphy barely had time to process losing his seat in the 2011 federal election before the House of Commons wrote to ask if he wanted it back. There was a catch,...