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When restrictions on public gatherings to combat the novel coronavirus lift, Golf Canada CEO Laurence Applebaum knows his sport will be ready. Until then, he hopes that amateur golfers follow the...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says the fight against COVID-19 means sheathing partisan swords. Scheer says while the job of the Opposition is to challenge the government, what t...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Clergy across Canada are moving services to the digital world as they adapt to support their congregations amid the global COVID-19 pandemic that has seen governments restrict ...

CALGARY - The union representing Canadian correctional officers says a program making clean needles available to inmates at a number of prisons across the country won't be expanding to new instit...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be updating Canadians again today on the latest measures being taken to try to protect the country against the steadily escalating COVID-19 threat. Trudeau ...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Iran's supreme leader on Sunday refused U.S. assistance to fight the new coronavirus, citing an unfounded conspiracy theory that the virus could be man-made by America. A...

ZAGREB, Croatia - A strong earthquake shook Croatia and its capital on Sunday, causing widespread damage and panic. Some casualties were reported. The European seismological agency, EMSC, said the ear...

SUN PEAKS - The Sun Peaks Mountain Resort Municipality is reporting a positive test for the COVID 19 virus. It also suggests more people are likely to test positive.In the first of two news releases S...

EDMONTON - Raphael Lavoie signed a three-year entry-level contract with the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday. The 19-year-old Lavoie is in his fourth season in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. H...

With more and more calls to postpone the Tokyo Olympics because of the coronavirus outbreak, it's worth noting that this every-four-years spectacle has been rocked before by traumatic events. Three ot...