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TORONTO - Avie's Flatter will break from the No. 14 post in the $1-million Queen's Plate on Saturday afternoon. The 5/3 early favourite was left with the far outside position in the 14-horse field at ...

WHITEHORSE - A Yukon cabinet minister is among the hundreds of participants taking part in a gruelling paddle as the 21st Yukon River Quest launches from Whitehorse. Pauline F...

OTTAWA - For the first time, Canada has placed right-wing extremist groups on the national list of terrorist organizations. Public Safety Canada says Blood & Honour, an international neo-Nazi...

HALIFAX - A marine biologist says the recent deaths of four endangered North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence is alarming, given that the massive mammals are just arriving in Canadian...

CONCORD, N.H. - The driver of a pickup truck in a fiery collision on a rural New Hampshire highway that killed seven motorcyclists was charged Monday with seven counts of negligent homicide, and recor...

OTTAWA - Canada and California are planning to harmonize their efforts to cut pollution from cars and pickup trucks. Environment Minister Catherine McKenna and California Gov. Gavin Newsom say they wi...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland - Riding a wave of widespread Italian enthusiasm to be an Olympic host, Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo won the vote Monday to stage the 2026 Winter Games. International Olympic Comm...

OTTAWA - Twitter is creating a registry of all online political ads posted on its platform during this fall's federal election campaign. But the social media giant will ban political advertisemen...

OTTAWA - Containers of Canadian trash that festered in the Philippines for years are set to arrive home just in time to celebrate the country's 152nd birthday. The Anna Maersk is scheduled t...

LAVAL, Que. - A Quebec mother convicted in the killings of her two young daughters has been sentenced to serve 10 years in prison before she is eligible for parole. Adele Sorella was convicted in Marc...