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MONTREAL - Community groups are meeting in downtown Montreal today to raise awareness of the risks of drug use as part of International Overdose Awareness Day. Each month more than a thousand Quebecer...

HALIFAX - Research scientists are watching with fascination this weekend as a search for rare undersea life is being broadcast live by two remotely operated vessels run by the...

SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium - Motorsport is mourning the death of Formula Two driver Anthoine Hubert, who was killed following a heavy crash at the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday. The 22-year-old Frenc...

EDMONTON - Alberta's United Conservatives have repealed a ban on seclusion rooms in schools that was brought in by the previous NDP government over concerns the rooms were traumatizing students w...

OTTAWA - Consumer advocates say a rare consensus is forming among the major political parties ahead of the federal election that Canadians need protecting from gouging by the country's big telecom com...

YORK, England - British singer-songwriter Ellie Goulding has married art dealer Caspar Jopling in a lavish ceremony with pals Katy Perry, Orlando Bloom and Sienna Miller in attendance. The two tied th...

DONGGUAN, China - Jonas Valanciunas is putting his trust in former teammate Kyle Lowry. The longtime Raptors forward, who was shipped to Memphis at the NBA trade deadline this past season,&n...

LINZ, Austria - Canadian rowers Hillary Janssens and Caileigh Filmer qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics by winning the bronze medal Saturday in the women's pairs event at the world rowing...

NEW YORK - Canada's Bianca Andreescu defeated former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 6-4, 6-4 in third-round play at the U.S. Open on Saturday. The 19-year-old from Mississauga, Ont., needed...

OSLO - Canadian snowboarder Max Parrot won the big air gold medal at X Games Oslo on Saturday in his first competition since being declared cancer-free two months ago. The Olympic silver medallis...