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MONTREAL - A Muslim organization and a civil liberties group are seeking to appeal a court ruling maintaining the province's ban on visible prayer in public schools. The Canadian Civil Liberties Assoc...

MONTREAL - Ottawa is restricting the conditions under which it will allow subsidies to the fossil fuel industry. The federal government has released guidelines that will limit when public funds are us...

PRINCE GEORGE - The Prince George Cougars have announced Jim Playfair as the team's new associate coach.Playfair takes over from Josh Dixon who has accepted a position with the University of Guelph.Pl...

VANCOUVER - For the first time in more than a month, showers and cooler weather are reaching parched sections of British Columbia, potentially bringing some respite for crews battling hundreds of wild...

HALIFAX - Workers are continuing to pump water from a flooded field in Nova Scotia that is the focus of a search for four people, including two children, who went missing in a torrent of water Saturda...

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. is hitting just fine after winning the All-Star Home Run Derby. The Toronto slugger went deep Sunday for the fourth time in nine games since the break, which should quell whateve...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli lawmakers on Monday approved a key portion of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's divisive plan to reshape the country's justice system. The vote came after a stormy session i...

FUKUOKA, Japan - Canadian swimmer Maggie Mac Neil claimed silver in the women's 100-metre butterfly at the World Aquatics Championships on Monday. Mac Neil, of London, Ont., finished with a time of 56...

A wildland interface fire is burning south of the Noonlang Lake area (approximately 30 km west of Carp Lake). An evacuation alert has been issued by both the Regional District of Bulkley-Nechako and t...

MELBOURNE, Australia - They say it's a small world. And Tom Sermanni has coached in most of it. The Scottish-born, Australian-based coach is working his sixth FIFA Women's World Cup - and his second a...